Kenyans can now easily seek job opportunities in the diaspora from the comfort of their houses using smartphones.
The government has developed a platform dubbed Kazi Majuu to help Kenyans seek opportunities.
Speaking on Friday during the launch of Gava Mkononi, a mobile app version of the e-Citizen, Foreign and Diaspora Affairs CS Alfred Mutua said the platform will provide skills assessment to job seekers.
“We have come up with a platform called Kazi Majuu where Kenyans can go online and look for job opportunities all over the World,” he said.
“We will be posting a lot of opportunities from different countries and Kenyans can go there and find a section to put on their details, it will connect them to agents who are recruiting people from different parts of the World.”
The CS said the platform will help job seekers in finding all the documents needed to relocate to the country.
Mutua said it will also be able to track the remittances and the life of Kenyans overseas.
He said the move will help to cut down unscrupulous agents who are not listed in the system.
“We are forming teams that will go out in different parts of the World to source for job opportunities and upload them for Kenyans to access,” he said.
Cases of Kenyans mistreated in foreign countries, especially in the Gulf region have been on the rise.
The suffering of Kenyan migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf has been associated with rogue recruitment agencies that disregard the workers after exporting them.
Central Organisation of Trade Unions proposed that all labour export matters should be handled by the Ministry and state to do away with agencies exporting labour.
The union’s Secretary General Francis Atwoli said the proposal states efforts to find job openings for jobless Kenyans abroad.
The government data shows that as of 2022, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were key labour destinations for Kenya’s semi and unskilled migrant workers.
According to a report by the Ministry of Labour, titled Labour Migration Senate study visit to the Middle East and policy implications at least 80,000 Kenyan live and work in Saudi Arabia with the majority serving as domestic workers.
“The government comes up with figures of the amount of remittance received from these nations but they don’t tell us if it’s worth the death of some of those workers abroad,” Atwoli said.
