Country
Kenya

Local Project Partners
Kenia Post Office Savings Bank (KPOSB)

Donator
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)

Duration
01.01.1991 bis 31.12.1996

Cooperation work with KPOSB dates back to contacts of the year 1980. Until the beginning of the 90s, a total of 17 staff members of KPOSB were trained at the Stadtsparkasse Ludwigshafen (Ludwigshafen savings bank). In 1990, a German training expert assumed his work at KPOSB in Nairobi. The project aimed at supporting KPOSB in raising the qualification and performance level of its staff and included the establishment of an own training centre for the nation-wide operating savings bank and the introduction of an in-house dual training system.

In the years 1991 to 1995, about 700 staff members were trained at the training centre, which was erected with German technical assistance. The one-year “General Banking Course” for junior banking staff is one of the training centre’s must successful training courses. During this one-year training course, the participants go through all savings bank’s departments and thus get an education similar to the basic apprenticeship stages at a German Sparkasse. Putting special focus on the combination of theoretical knowledge with training on-the-job, this dual training system is a novelty in Kenya and has already been copied by other institutions.

Furthermore, a one-year management trainee course for university graduates was introduced. KPOSB’s training centre also caters to the training requests of other savings banks and institutions of this region – thus, training courses were organised for the staff of CERUDEB in Uganda, the Uganda Post Office Savings Bank and the Tanganyika Post Office Savings Bank.

Services provided

• Consultancy on set-up and organisation of a training centre,
• Support in the development of curricula and training programmes,
• Introduction of trainee courses,
• Development of training material for the training centre,
• Consultancy on a concept for examination and certification methods,
• Train-the-trainer seminars Seminars and courses for auditors,
• Organisation of information visits,
• Monitoring and examination of the installation of technical equipment