The Cross-Border Community Resilience (CBCR) Activity commissioned this labor market assessment as part of the evidence base for its programming. Particularly, this report assesses the existing and potential economic opportunities in the Moyale cluster, and reviews the main labor and wage employment sectors.

Additionally, the report identifies the key sectors of growth and potential, the available skills and skills in demand by the labor market, and the formal and informal barriers in labor market participation for various groups of people (especially women, youth and traditionally marginalized groups) across the cluster. The assessment further analyses the major value chains and the potential for private sector development in the Moyale cluster.

Indeed, the assessment provides insights into the changing landscape of the labor markets in the Moyale cluster. While the labor markets have largely orbited around agro-pastoral livelihoods over the years, changes in the county’s political economy have necessitated shifts in the labor market (for example, a move toward formal employment and wage labor) that call for additional training among the populations in the cluster, particularly the youth.

Therefore, the CBCR Activity has its work cut out in its attempts to address these challenges, as well as many others that relate to underdeveloped values chains, and formal and informal barriers in labor market participation among various groups across the cluster.