An Investigation of the effect of select policy interventions on youth unemployment in Kenya
Date
2022
Authors
Gwambo, Patricia Elizabeth Ahawo
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Strathmore University
Abstract
In Kenya, the problem of unemployment has since independence occupied the minds of policy planners in both the Government and the private sector. The third National Development Plan of 1974-78, stipulates the efforts made to address unemployment among the youth, warning that the problem would in future continue to need proper redress. A major problem to addressing this issue for the country is the deficit and risk thinking carried by Kenyan policy makers. There are evident research gaps as pertains to attaining a context that arises from previous studies on policy interventions in youth unemployment globally and regionally that can be replicated in Kenya. The objective of the study sought to investigate the effect of select policy interventions on youth unemployment in Kenya. The methodology is hinged on the positivism research philosophy, the research design applied is descriptive survey making use of a questionnaire as the primary data collection tool. The data analysis model employed is Spearman’s Rank Correlation. The contribution of the study is that the research findings enable the researcher to investigate the effectiveness of various policy measures used to address youth unemployment in Kenya. The outcome is a contribution to what can continue to be applied as policy interventions and what has been the effect this far. The research concludes that education and training programmes, industry skills matching, access to finance, access to affordable technology as policy interventions have a significant positive effect on youth unemployment in Kenya. Human capital development currently does not have a significant effect on youth unemployment in Kenya.
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A Research dissertation submitted to the Strathmore University Business School in partial fulfillment for the Master of Science in Development Finance of Strathmore University
Keywords
Policy interventions, Youth unemployment, Education, Access to finance, Access to technology, Human capital development