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Item Capacity Building in Project Management Education and Training at Kenyatta University(iekenya.org, 2021) Mahugu,Joanne Nyaguthie; Muiga,JulietMajor social and economic developments in Africa, specifically in Kenya are delivered through infrastructural projects funded by the Kenya Government and donor agencies. There is a paradigm shift from the traditional way of running infrastructure projects with architects and civil engineers being the project managers to construction project managers being recognized as the lead champion in execution of these projects. Consequently, a great need of project management skills has been created in Kenya. Specifically, there is a great need to train construction project managers to provide objective, accurate and reliable cost assessments for investment funding and project administration as well as ensuring the timely execution of especially large scale infrastructure projects. The paper discusses how a response to this need was developed in Kenya. In particular, it focuses on the undergraduate Construction Management and Real Estate Programme developed at the Kenyatta University