Meaning? Public Private Partnerships?
Difficult thing. The two go into with divergent mindset making it difficult to spurr synergies. Also too much suspicion in the air. I attempted one and it was nightmare

Some valid points but i will disagree with you on some of your assumptions.
If oil industry is specialized, how about that software industry you mentioned in India? Ain't it specialized too?

If you look at each project in isolation, you get few numbers, because you ignore other support sectors,the connectors.
A port on its own, has a low head count, but how is it built? How do shipments arrive/depart at the port? The tourists on cruise ships?
Take the Singapore port, how many jobs does it create directly and indirectly?

When oil is pumped out, coal mined, making energy cost come down, then the disadvantage we be suffering of high energy costs won't be a worry.
That would bring in large manufacturers who have stayed out for all those years.The infrastructure dev'ts will lower transport costs,more business opportunities further away. More jobs.
Until now, most of the big car/electronics manufacturers have been pitching tent in Egypt ans S.A. With their well developed infrastructure,cheaper energy and enabling environment, they have been beating us hands down.
That won't be for long because we have the labor.
When you are poor[gov't] and lacking visionary leaders, its hard to be competitive.

About the point you raised of BoP, the energy related exploits will solve part of that, with a growing manufacturer sector doing the other part through increased exports.Resort City, more tourists money in.

Foreign investors take profits, the rest of the pie is consumed by the other factors of production. What Diageo/Coca Cola remit to their countries of origin is less than a quarter of what is spend here, locally.

All in all, these projects are not many and they will address the very issues afflicting us.

Lest we choose to be lazy.

The point here is scale. The government needs some key industries to absorb all these idle people in a sustainable way.

Looking at the scale of the software industry in India. They have over 20 million software engineers based in India. Although India may not be a very good comparison due to its size, the number of software engineers is half the population of Kenya. Due to this large number of workers and the fact that most software projects are labour intensive at the low level, all major companies in that sector see it sensible to offshore a part of their operations to Bangalore in order to reduce their HR costs.

With regard to manufacturing in China, they have the infrastructure, they are also hoarding all rare earth metals (input factors) and they have the masses (labour). All these are the perfect ingredients for a functional manufacturing sector. The issue of rare earth metals is a key reason why China is here with us amongst other reasons.

If you have good infrastracture and you build resorts, the number of people you are giving employment per acrerage of land covered by the resort is rather small, we cannot provide employment to all Kenyans even if we filled the place with resorts.

The kind of traffic of people going to Industrial area every morning is the symbolic kind of absorption of the masses that we need but at a national level.

Hopefully with devolution, each county can create their own industrial area, of course all these needs to be coordinated by a proper national plan.

GoK also contracts independent project managers.

Who wants to take a guess?

All I can say is that we need to move away from the mentality that any foreign investor is here to "help" us, nothing can be further from the truth.

Follow the link to view the world coal consumption figures and you'll understand where their appetite for coal comes from, Link.

Before we can figure out how we can use the coal, it will gladly be finding its way to China.

It's not far fetched to think that government may have exchanged some of this minerals for the infrastructure the Chinese are building for us. China has used that kind of model in Angola; Angola's government is paying the Chinese with Oil.