John M. King’au¹*, Catherine Ng’endo Munyua², Babere K. Chacha³
| Young people represent around one fifth of the world’s population and half of the total unemployed global workforce are the youth. In Kenya over half of the total population is youth and a majority of them living in rural areas and are unemployed. This is why most rural youth engage in self-reliance projects to improve their livelihoods. Thus there is need for a new agenda of fostering the rural youth self-reliance projects implementation. This agenda should not be based on general youth development simplifications but should be one that is proactive enough to foster projects for youth in harmony with the communities living and earning their livelihoods in rural areas. This paper examines the future of rural youth self-reliance projects in Kenya. The article is based on a study conducted to determine the effects of self-reliance projects on the livelihoods of youth in selected rural areas of Nakuru County, Kenya. The major findings were: need for supporting entrepreneurial and agribusiness skills, provision of financial resources to young people, policies that provide positive livelihoods support and appropriate venture credits controlled and managed by the rural youth organizations. Further the findings indicate that successful rural self-reliance projects have to integrate important basic social services such as entrepreneurial training; infrastructure as well as financing. The study established that development partners enhancing youth participation in self-reliance projects should ensure substantive dialogue or the involvement of youth from the rural areas. The author recommends that the County Governments in Kenya should invest in the foundation of sustainable self reliance projects to enhance social cohesion in their areas |
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