Kenya : Can the Private Sector Help Train Youth for Jobs?
The World Bank is committed to working with governments to give everyone the ability to lead productive and healthy lives and getting youth ready for and in jobs is part of this. In Kenya, the World Bank supported a pilot program to give unemployed...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/399011467994702112/Kenya-Can-the-private-sector-help-train-youth-for-jobs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28224 |
| Summary: | The World Bank is committed to working
with governments to give everyone the ability to lead
productive and healthy lives and getting youth ready for and
in jobs is part of this. In Kenya, the World Bank supported
a pilot program to give unemployed youth access to job
training and private sector internships. An impact
evaluation found that those who went through the program
were more likely to end up with paid employment, and that
young women in particular were also more likely to open a
bank account and save money. The Government of Kenya and the
World Bank are using the results to help expand the program
to reach more young people and give them the opportunity to
learn skills and find jobs. Finding effective ways to help
unemployed and underemployed youth make the transition from
low-paid informal labor to higher paid wage labor is a major
challenge for policymakers across the globe. The results
from this study contribute to a growing body of evidence on
the role that training programs can play in addressing this
challenge. The findings suggest that offering young people
training and work experience in the private sector is a
promising way to put youth in jobs and increase their
earnings in urban settings throughout Africa. In addition to
increasing employment, the program encouraged youth to
participate in more skills training and internships, and got
more young people to open bank accounts and use them. The
results mirror other similar findings from different
countries in Latin America, suggesting private sector
training and internships, provided in collaboration with
governments, are a promising way to increase youth
opportunity in a range of settings. |
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