Africa’s quest for accelerated growth and sustainable development can only be achieved through a radical economic transformation. The constraints to this transformative agenda are majorly divisions between countries caused by geography, poor infrastructure and inefficient policies that have resulted into poor flow of trade, capital, energy, people, skills and knowledge.
Critical to the attainment of this economic transformation, is regional integration. Without any doubt it offers the shortest and surest means of consolidating the region’s weak, small and disparate economies and hence building the economies of scale and achieving the international competitiveness necessary for the region’s sustainable development. It also promotes establishment of the mechanisms necessary for the management of cross-border challenges of regional nature, such as water management, climate change, food security, cross-border health issues, etc.
This year’s conference will be centered on Knowledge and Innovation and how they are indispensible ingredients necessary for the promotion of regional integration and creation of a resilient regional economy with enough muscle and resilience to survive any turbulence
The skills competition is designed to provide an opportunity for individuals or teams to compete against one another to demonstrate their talent in a particular vocational skill, using tasks derived from real life, industry-based scenarios. The tasks are formulated by industry experts, and designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, practical skills and employability attributes such as team-work, problem solving, and time management against set criteria in a competitive timed environment.
The skills competition is open to all TVET & VTC institutions within the republic of Kenya.
Each individual’s or team’s work is to be scored by a panel of judges/experts drawn from the industry using agreed criteria, and the highest score(s) permitted to proceed to the next stage of the competition.
It’s proposed that winners, 1st runners up and 2nd runners up in each category to be awarded trophies and certificates
| 19TH APRIL 2021 | DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS |
| 26TH APRIL 2021 | NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF ABSTRACTS |
| 3RD MAY 2021 | DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS |
| 10TH MAY 2021 | DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF POWER POINT SLIDES |
| 9TH JUNE 2021 | ARRIVALS/OPEN DAY |
| 10TH -11TH JUNE 2021 | CONFERENCE DATES |
| 11TH JUNE 2021 | EXCURSIONS AND DEPARTURE |
The conference committee would like to invite authors to submit papers on the specific sub-themes and others that fall within the scope of the conference. However, papers to be presented in this conference must have not been presented, accepted or published elsewhere.
Papers submitted will go through a double-blinded review process with final proceedings with ISBN indexed in Google Scholar, Scopus and Thompson Reuters.
All submitted papers will be subjected to a strict review process. Authors are reminded to follow the formatting requirement of the paper. Authors are required to submit the full paper (PDF and Word format) to the tknpconferences@kisumupoly.ac.ke
The Kisumu National Polytechnic is committed to providing affordable, accessible, sustainable and quality training by ensuring our services are effective and efficient and meet the customer needs and expectations.
| EARLY BIRD (BEFORE 10TH MAY 2021) | LATE REG. ( FROM 11TH MAY 2021) | |
| KENYANS | KES. 4,000 (USD 40) | KES. 5,500 (USD 55) |
| INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES | KES. 5,500 (USD 55) | KES. 6500 (USD 65) |
| EXHIBITIONS | KES. 5,000 (USD 50) | KES. 5500 (USD 55) |
All submitted papers will be subjected to a strict review process. Authors will choose one of the following :
1. Tamap journals on tamap.org
The paper submission format must meet the following styling:
To join us as a Technical Committee Member please send us an email with your updated Curriculum Vitae.
tknpconferences@kisumupoly.ac.ke
The Kisumu National Polytechnic invites sponsors to support this conference. The following packages are available:
All correspondence and or submissions to be sent to tknpconferences@kisumupoly.ac.ke
| 1. | Mr. Evans Onyango | +254 721 933 764 | evans.onyango@kisumupoly.ac.ke |
| 2. | Dr. Asaka Nyangara | +254 723 040 846 | nyangara@kisumupoly.ac.ke |