Sessional Paper No. 06 of 2006 on Employment Policy and Strategies for Kenya.
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2006Author
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This sessional paper provides the strategies to mitigate and address the problems of unemployment. among key interventions proposed in the paper besides accelerated and sustained economic growth are; the promotion of labour intensive investments; matching skills to labour needs; mainstreaming youth and gender in employment programmes and developing a national labour market information infrastructure. other strategies include promotion of good industrial relations, health and safety at the workplace through the review of labour laws, expanding social security to ensure job sustainability and security; promotion of foreign unemployment to absorb excess labour and developing a broad-base institutional framework to guide the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the proposed policies and programmes.
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Employment; Employment Creation; Employment Status; Skills Mis-Match; Unemployment; Population Explosion; Industrial Relations
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