To enhance participation in ASALs, the following strategies will be put in place:
- Establish and operationalise the National Council on Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK) in order to promote access, retention and quality education for nomadic communities;
- Recruit more teachers for schools in arid and pastoral counties so as to reach the desirable ratio at primary level of 1:25, and at secondary level of 1:40;
- Establish one computer laboratory in each ASALs primary school;
- Construct/rehabilitate 140 low-cost boarding schools in arid and pastoral counties. The programme will supplement the national infrastructure programme under NESSP;
- Â Construct 15 feeder schools in each of 14 arid and pastoral counties
- Equip 600 low-cost boarding schools in 14 arid and pastoral counties;
- Designate and upgrade three TTCs as centres for Nomadic Education in order to provide teachers in nomadic communities with tailor-made professional support;
- Improve 100 existing mobile schools with logistics and teaching equipment;
- Develop curriculum support materials tailored to the needs of nomadic communities;
- Construct and equip one middle-level college in six ASALs counties so as to increase skilled manpower for the region;
- Increase the bursary allocation for learners in middle-level technical colleges in ASALs;
- Increase bursary scholarship for girls’ education in arid and pastoral counties, channeled through the Northern Kenya Education Trust;
- Develop a costed implementation strategy for the adult literacy policy framework to guide its implementation in 14 arid and pastoral counties; and
- Establish 500 Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) centres in ASALs counties
