Employment creation in Kenya is a major concern to the government. The 1998/99 Labour Force Survey estimates Kenya’s active labour force at 10.5 million people, and unemployment at 14.6% of the active labour force. Given ...

Despite the beneficial role that the Jua Kali sector' plays in providing employment, improving income distribution, and developing dynamic private enterprises, initiatives to support its growth by providing workspaces ...

Chronic poverty can be defined in terms of the duration households are trapped in poverty. The chronically poor are those who are always poor, or usually living below the poverty line. The chronic poor suffer persistent ...

Agriculture provides most of the food for the majority of Kenyans and employs most people in the rural areas. In the 1980s to 1990s, agriculture declined substantially because of lack of good economic management. This ...

Kenya Vision 2030 is the new long-term development blueprint for the country. It is motivated by a collective aspiration for a better society by the year 2030. The aim of Kenya Vision 2030 is to create “a globally ...

In many countries, long term unemployment and underemployment continue to soar. The unemployment rate of youth agl'd 15-24 in Kenya was 24% in 2005/6 compared to the overall unemployment rate of 12.7%. Under-employment ...

The road transport sector through two- and three-wheeler (TTW) operation, though informal, has helped fill the youth employment gap. That said, to fully exploit the employment potential for the youth, it is important to ...

Poverty in Kenya is caused by a number of factors, which include low agricultural productivity and poor marketing of industrial and agricultural products, insecurity, unemployment and low wages, poor governance, misallocation ...

According to estimates by the UN-Habitat, nearly 50% of the population in developing countries will be urban by the year 2020 as more people abandon traditional rural areas to live and work in cities. In Kenya, as in ...

The Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012 outlines the county planning framework which provides for the preparation of various kinds of plans and among them is the County Annual Development Plans (CADPs). The CADP ...