Kenya’s youth dividend has been touted as its greatest asset if we could only marshal and direct adequate resources towards education, training and forward opportunities for gainful work.
The government has been very articulate in its blueprints, with the obvious political benefit that cracking this would bring. The private sector has been drawn into the vision, taking a corporate social responsibility and sustainable development goals angle to it, pumping in hundreds of millions into programmes and partnerships with technical, vocational education and training institutions that are meant to upskill youth, in some cases tool them and thereafter release them into the world to contribute to the economy.
