•PS Charles Hinga announced that interested persons will be required to register through the Kazi Mtaani Management System portal.
•The third phase is said to be robust and will be implemented in over 900 informal settlements across all counties and will run to the end of June 2022.
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The Kazi Mtaani portal is back live after crashing for some hours on Friday.
The site crashed as millions of youths attempted to register for Phase Three of the programme.
We sincere apologize for the anxiety caused when the system went down. We are live. Our teams are working round the clock to ensure a better user experience. Try give as much accurate info as possible. There will be a validation process later. pic.twitter.com/qOVnmXQihH
— Charles Hinga Mwaura; CBS, CA (SA) (@PSCharlesHinga) November 19, 2021
This came a day after the government announced that the programme will start in December and run until June 30 next year.
Those interested are required to register in the Kazi Mtaani Management System portal.
Urban Development PS Charles Hinga had said the system experienced unprecedented traffic, leading to its crashing.
He also urged persons interested not to be in a rush to register today as they had a two week period for the registration exercise.
" Kindly note, the registration period will not close today. It’s also not first come first served. We have over 1m traffic trying to register," Hinga said.
The Kazi Mtaani Management System is a mobile and web-based system developed by the Government of Kenya to register and manage Kazi Mtaani beneficiaries across the country
The online portal will ensure those interested be registered in a timely, transparent and efficient manner that will be equitable across the board.
The web application will be used to register, process the data received from the mobile application, payments and reports. On the other end, the mobile application will be used to collect workers, clock in and clock out and projects data.
The PS also urged the public to beware of conmen who were duping the youth to pay in order to register. "Also note there are many conmen asking you to pay, don’t pay anyone to register, it’s free of charge," Hinga stated.
The third phase is said to robust and will be implemented in over 900 informal settlements across all 47 counties will run until end of June 2022, offering relief to thousands of youths enlisted in the project
President Uhuru Kenyatta last month during Mashujaa Day promised that the National Hygiene Programme popularly known as the Kazi Mtaani would be continued because it had positively impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of youth
In phase three, the youths will also receive extensive training on life skills such as setting up businesses, HIV/Aids prevention, mental health and counselling, and basic skills in masonry and carpentry. Last month, it was announced that at least 3,400 youths will be enrolled in the Kazi Mtaani Phase Three programme to support malaria control efforts across the county.
The youths are going to dedicate their time on a daily basis to support malaria control efforts across the country.
"The Kazi Mtaani Phase 3 is expected to be bigger and better. The expanded Phase will equip the youth with skills aimed at creating job opportunities as well as enable them to engage in self-employment in fields such as plumbing, masonry, carpentry and many more ," Hinga added.
Kazi Mtaani is a national initiative that was launched in April 2020 to cushion the most vulnerable but able-bodied citizens living in informal settlements from the effects and response strategies of the Covid -19 pandemic.
The programme, which started with a budget of Sh10 billion, employed 283,210 youths in 900 informal settlements across the 47 counties has put food on the table of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans and enabled thousands of youths to start small thriving businesses.
It targeted residents of informal settlements who are above eighteen years of age and below 35 years basically the youth who are unable to find work due to the disruption of normal economic activity by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The programme has made a great impact on the youths lives as it has transformed their lives in all dimensions by creating job opportunities and this has helped reduce the crime rate in society.