President Uhuru Kenyatta during the launch of Jubilee's manifesto. [Photo/PSCU]
The Jubilee Manifesto outlines several ways in which the youth will benefit if President Uhuru Kenyatta is re-elected.
This includes ensuring more opportunities for employment by transforming the National Youth Service to implement commercial projects in Kenya and abroad.
Below are the steps Jubilee has pledged to take to create employment for the youth:
-Expanding the participation of young people in national development and guarantee that 30% of all appointments, projects and budgets specifically target them.
-Linking training and skills building to jobs, we will attach every youth registered through the Ajira Platform, to a specific public project such as the building of roads and housing, irrigation, water infrastructure and electrification projects.
-Encouraging organisations to take on board interns by expanding the tax incentive framework.
-Preparing highly talented young people to work in the Public Service by introducing a Young Professionals Management Programme.
-Establishing the Biashara Bank by merging the Micro and Small Enterprise Authority, the Youth Enterprises Development Fund, the Women Enterprises Fund and the Uwezo Fund to provide coordination in the delivery of affordable financing and support for business development.
-Providing structured support to the creative sectors, which have high potential for youth employment including film music and fashion and bring them into the mainstream economy.
-Scaling up the “Studio Mashinani” and “Talent pia ni Kazi” where young people can affordably record and expose their creative talent to the market as we harness their talent to create new jobs.