Private sector targeted for top employer: MGRP

KUWAIT: The Manpower and Government Restructuring Program (MGRP) is hard at work to create of the private sector the major employer of national workforce in the country, through encouraging young people to work in non-government jobs.

The trend is part of the government’s efforts to remedy the imbalance in the structure of the local labor market, director of developing national manpower at the MGRP Eman Al-Ansari told a graduation ceremony of 30 job seekers from the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK).

It aims to replace the migrant labor with nationals, Ansari said. The MGRP seeks through manpower development schemes to qualify those seeking jobs in the private sector through training programs in cooperation with various Kuwaiti institutions, she noted. She highlighted the state’s high interest in youth as “Kuwait’s real wealth,” citing a significant saying of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Established amongst the first private higher educational institutions, the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) offers unique experiential education programs which are recognized in the region. The ACK is to “generate human capital equipped with practical knowledge and employability skills that contributes to the economic development and welfare of Kuwait.”