By LUKE ANAMI

Kenya must audit her human capital resource before aiming for the middle-income country status.

"There is a need for a coordinated control of human capital to urgently address skills that are currently mismatched," Mr Mugo Kibati, the Director General of the Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Board, said as he attended the launch of Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) website Tuesday, at a Nairobi hotel.

He said such the purpose of a human capital audit is critical to assess the current practices in the country, in comparison to prevailing best practices elsewhere in the world.

A successful audit, he said, would ensure the right people are in the right place, at the right time.

He said such an audit would consider organisational strategy and the people alignment, so as to align it with strategies contained in the vision 2030. The result, he said, will present a blueprint for the future.

With more than 80 per cent of funding for Vision 2030 expected to come from the private sector, Kibati urged stakeholders cultivate a strong public- private partnership, in order to mobilize the required development capital.

He also challenged the private sector to take a leading role in the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).