Setting an Agenda for Promoting Employment through Entrepreneurship
July 17 - 19

David Waithaka, Executive Director, Kenya Youth Business Trust

EXPERIENCE SHARING – Opportunities and Challenges faced by Youth while setting up businesses. What can be done to support youth aspiration?

Setting an Agenda for Promoting Employment through Entrepreneurship

A Synopsis

Introduction

Today, rising unemployment is taking a heavy toll among young people than never before, especially in developing countries and particularly in Sub-Sahara Africa. Young people have become a vulnerable group in the labour market. With the Structural Adjustment Programmes imposed on developing countries in the 80s through 90s, lay-offs, restructuring and insufficient opportunities have condemned many, to a life of economic hardship and despair. The youth have not been spared either. Globally, we witness the tragedy of young lives misspent in vices such as crime, drug abuse, civil conflict and even terrorism. This is a phenomenon, posing a challenge to all development partners.