OUKenya’s unemployment rate is expected to rise to 10.5 percent by 2020 from the current 9.3 percent, as formal jobs in continue to dwindle.
Mastercard Foundation plans to create 30 million employment opportunities across Africa, including five million in Kenya, in the next 11 years. It has identified agriculture, also a key pillar of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big Four Agenda, as key to its efforts to create job opportunities for the youth.
