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Greening Decent Employment Opportunities For Kenya’s Youth

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Publication Date
2019-08
Author
Baraza, Edwins
Abeka, Silvance Onyango
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Unemployment of youth in any nation thwarts social fabrics and identity of young potential labor force globally. This results in less effective and inefficient economic support from the most vibrant members of the community. Greening is the process of creating a friendlier environment and better systems by the government and organizations towards job creation leading to improved lives and livelihoods as well as transformation in life styles. The purpose of the study was to train and mentor unemployed youth to exploit soft and hard skills. The study sought to promote goat rearing in the target communities to stimulate start-up of viable youth enterprises; revitalize cage fishing towards greening of youth employment opportunities and growth; enhance ICT skills and Innovation and train on on-line jobs towards youth empowerment. This research adopted participatory action research design (PAR) to mitigate the depriving factors that have impacted negatively on the youth and to enhance effective community ownership through sensitization seminars and workshops for value creation and exchange for the identified projects such as Goat rearing, Cage fishing, ICT and Innovation, online jobs, so that the projects meet the standard as anticipated and change the attitude of the youth. The study employed simple random sampling for selection of the sample. Anonymous and self-administered questionnaires and interview guides were distributed to 1000 respondents. Secondary data was collected through review of records, reports, journals and books. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis. The results for objectives 1-4 were based on qualitative data analysis showing that employment opportunities significantly followed goat rearing, cage fishing, ICT Skills and Innovations and on-line jobs. For example the youth are more willing to engage in these activities to better their lives than is commonly assumed from the evidence adduced. The research also found that value chain interventions across all the objectives potentially increases employment, alleviates poverty and impacts on the lives of the youth despite the existing challenges which we recommend should be addressed for better outcomes.

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Greening,; Soft Skills,; Employment,; Youth and Innovation
Publisher
International Journal of Education and Research
ISSN
2411-5681
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http://ir.jooust.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/8934
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