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World Bank

Development Organization

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Government of Kenya

Implementing Partner

 

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20 May 2016 to 31 December 2021

Project Timeline

 

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USD150,000,000

Project Budget

 

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280,000 youth between 18-29 years

who are unemployed/under employed or working in vulnerable jobs with up to Form 4 level education

Project target

 

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Partners:

  • Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSEA)

  • Ministry of ICT Innovation and Youth Affairs

  • National Industrial Training Authority

  • Ministry of Labor and Social Protection

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Contact:

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Abla Safir 

Senior Economist

The World Bank

E  asafir@worldbank.org

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Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project

 

The development objective of the Youth Employment and Opportunities Project for Kenya is to increase employment and earnings opportunities for targeted youths. The project comprises of four components.

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Component 1:

  • Improving youth employability addresses the skills mismatch of youth by engaging training providers and private sector employers to offer training and work experience to targeted youth. This component will contain two sub-components.

  • Provision of training and work experience in the formal sector.

  • Provision of training and work experience in the informal sector.

 

Component 2:

Support for job creation responds to the need for job creation with initiatives to help launch new businesses, improve the productivity and job creation potential of existing micro-enterprises and among self-employed youth, and support innovative approaches to improve job and earning opportunities among the hard-to-serve youth.

 

Component 3:

Improving labor market information plans to improve access to and the quality of labor market information (LMI) to help public and private actors make decisions and formulate policies

 

Component 4:

Strengthening youth policy development and project management will support capacity building for the Ministry of ICT Innovation and Youth Affairs and the management and coordination of the overall Project. It includes three sub-components:

  • Building youth employment policy development and coordination capabilities

  • Monitor and evaluation (M&E) of youth employment policies and funds

  • Project management and coordination.

 

Location:

  • Bungoma

  • Kakamega

  • Kiambu

  • Kilifi

  • Kisii

  • Kisumu

  • Kitui

  • Kwale 

  • Machakos

  • Mandera

  • Migori

  • Mombasa

  • Nairobi

  • Nakuru

  • Nyandarua

  • Turkana

  • Wajir

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National Activities:

  • Kenya Labor Market Information System (KLMIS)

  • MbeleNaBiz Business Plan Competition

  • Innovation challenge

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Key Focus Areas: 

  • Employment

  • Job Creation

  • Life/Employability Skills

  • Labor Market Information System

  • Policy Development

  • Youth Technical Skills Training

  • Access to Finance & Entrepreneurship

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Sector:

  • Workforce Development Skills

  • Social Protection

  • Public Administration

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