Kenya - Enable Youth — Kenya

Overview

The ENABLE Youth Kenya is a skills and capacity development program for youth. It largely entails training of Youth on business skills and development of business plans; providing mentorship and linkages to markets and financing. The training will be conducted in selected incubation centres, which will be rehabilitated and outfitted to cater for better interaction, networking and exchange of innovative ideas. The program is also in line with the recently launched Kenya Youth Agribusiness Strategy (KYAS) 2017-2021 which aims at providing opportunities for the youth to benefit from the various agribusiness enterprises along the agricultural value chains. It was designed because the increased of youth unemployment, particularly recent graduates from universities, colleges and other tertiary institutions becomes a major concern for the Government of Kenya since nearly 500,000 youth graduate from tertiary institutions and are ready to enter the job market every year. The program consists of four (04) components, namely: 1) Enabling Environment for Youth Empowerment in Agribusiness; 2) Entrepreneurship and agribusiness incubation; 3) Financing Youth Agribusinesses; and 4) Program Management and Coordination.