The Director General, Political and Diplomatic Affairs, Amb. Josphat Maikara, EBS, is leading a Kenyan Delegation to Manila, Philippines for the 2nd Session of the Kenya-Philippines Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation, (JCBC).
The meetings which began today are scheduled to deliberate various agenda items including strengthening Trade Relations, Education, Maritime, Labour and Diaspora Management, Security Sector, Disaster Management while exchanging views on Regional and Multilateral level affecting the two countries.
The two delegations have agreed to upscale the JCBC to a Ministerial level in an effort to deepen and advance issues of mutual interest. The co-chairs underscored the importance of the cooperation in enhancing people to people interaction, boost tourism, improve economy and trade which is currently skewed in favour of the Philippines.
The Session further proposed the consideration of both countries having Memoranda of Understanding in the areas of Agriculture, focusing on value addition, Tourism, Blue Economy, Labour Movement and Diaspora Management. Kenya is keen to learn best practices in these fields.