The document outlines six solutions to youth unemployment in Kenya: 1) Lowering energy costs by investing in alternative sources like geothermal, solar, and additional hydroelectric dams. 2) Improving education by focusing on skills like ICT and entrepreneurship. 3) Promoting peace to attract investors and equitable resource distribution. 4) Providing grants and lowering loan requirements/interest rates for youth. 5) Enhancing sex education to reduce early pregnancy and dropouts. 6) Promoting urban-rural migration by supporting agri-business and improving rural infrastructure/facilities.

1. MAKE IT WORK
How to create jobs for the
Kenyan youths
Team: Low-Level Youth Bunge Group
Country: Kenya
4/13/2013

2. SOLUTIONS TO YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN KENYA
1. LOWERING THE ENERGY COST
The ever escalating prices of electricity and oil has in turn
increased the cost of production. High energy cost has also scared
away investors and even making many companies to stop
production and thus retrenchments of many youths.
Kenya gets most of its electricity from the seven folks hydro-
electric dams build on river Tana. During dry seasons the water
level goes down and all the dams stop electricity production. It is
for this reason that the government embark on using diesel
generators and thus leading to high energy cost.
To solve this problem we need to build more hydro-electric
dams but not on the same river. We only produce 1350MW from
water out of a hydro-potential of 7000MW.
We will also slice the cost by training livestock farmers on how
to produce bio-gas from cow-dung since most farmers have no
idea on how this is done.
Research shows that Geo-thermal can produce more than
750MW if we fully invest in this sector.
Another way of reducing the energy cost is to equip all the
schools in the rural areas with solar panels.
We can still join hands with the neighboring countries just as
we did with the 21 billion dollar LAMSET Lamu port project and
invest in fusion energy project. Fusion power last longer and is
less expensive. Helium IV is a good source of this type of energy. If
we supply power in all areas in Kenya will create more young
entrepreneurs plus many jobs.

3. 2. IMPROVING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
Recent surveys shows that majority of the Kenyan youths are
locked out of employment because of the poor/lacking ICT skills.
To solve many problems relating to skills and education, a new
syllabus need to be in place in order to reflect the needs of the
industry and labor market.
Entrepreneurship and technical education needs to be enhanced
so as to make the youths to be job creators and not job seekers.
All schools should be equipped with enough qualified and
competent teachers. Workshops, science labs, and computer labs
should be well equipped to ensure that the students achieve the
21st century educational requirement. We are also required to
build more schools to ensure that the 60% of the students who
are left out of the secondary school slots every year are enrolled
in the system.
3. PROMOTION OF PEACE, LOVE AND UNITY
This is to be done through peace campaigns and explaining to the
youths about the important of peace.
Peace can also be promoted through equitable distribution of the
national resources. Foreign investors will only be attracted to do
business in this country if peace prevails.
4. GIVING GRANTS/REDUCING LOAN REQUIREMENTS/INTEREST
RATE:
Most of the youths have ended up disappointed by the banks
wherever they ask for loans.
The government/NGOs must come up with grants programs for
the youths to stimulate the growth and creation of business.

4. 5. ENHANCE SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOL
Majority of our young girls get pregnant while in school. This
prevents them from finishing their education. Without education this
girls end up not qualifying for employment since they will have no skills.
I believe with compulsory sex education we shall help our boys and
girls to know about sex and its consequences.
6. PROMOTING URBAN TO RURAL MIGRATION
Majority of the youths move from rural areas to urban areas in search
of jobs and while coming to the city they have high expectation. When
they fail to secure employment, they refuse to go back to the village
since they don’t want to be seen as failures so they stay behind and
thus engaging in criminal activities, prostitution, and hence leading to
expansion of slums.
In order to promote urban to rural migration the government should
educate the youth on agri-business, agricultural technology and should
also give agricultural grants to youths in order to stimulate agriculture.
We can also do this by leasing the un-used government land to youths.
The government should equip the rural areas with modern facilities and
services such as; fresh water, internet, universities, healthcare and
good schools.
Improve infrastructure especially roads and electricity supply so that
the rural youths do not fill inferior and out dated when they compare
themselves with those from urban areas.