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Title: Kenya National Youth Policy
Location:
Categories: Human Rights & Equity
Work & Economics
Children’s Rights
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
The Kenya National Youth Policy is a vehicle for prioritising public actions through comprehensive and multi-sectoral response with the objective of integrating the youth and working with them in national development.
The Policy has laid emphasis in certain strategic areas that shall be addressed and these include: Youth Participation and Empowerment , Employment Creation, Education and Training, Health, Environment, Youth and the Media, Arts and Culture and Sports and Recreation.
The National Youth Policy is aimed at ensuring the youth play their role, alongside adults, in the development of the country. The policy's goal is to promote youth participation in community and civic affairs and to ensure that youth programmes are youth centred. The policy proposes guidelines and strategies that can be used to facilitate participation of the youth in national development.
The policy also spells out the strategic areas that must be addressed in order for Kenya's young people to effectively play their role in nation building. These are: Employment creation, health, education and training, sports and recreation, the environment, art and culture, the media and participation and empowerment.
The youth are classified into priority target groups to make it easier to tackle challenges unique to each group. The priority groups are: Youth with disability, street youth, youth infected with Aids, female youth, unemployed youth and out of school youth.
The implementation plan is to ensure that the policy becomes a reality. It suggests the formation of a National Youth Council to facilitate, co-ordinate, monitor, advocate and promote youth issues and youth-led initiatives, under the ministry in charge. The Institutional Framework will minimize duplicity and enhance efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery to the youth. It is in this light that the policy proposes that the youth division be upgraded into a department to effectively spearhead the process.
The policy will be revised every five years and as and when other government policy documents are revised.
Background:
The National Youth Policy comes in the face of a myriad of challenges facing the youth in Kenya. Although the number of organisations dealing with young people has increased over the years, the lack of a comprehensive policy makes it difficult for these groups to effectively address these challenges.
The National Youth Policy is aimed at ensuring the youth play their role, alongside adults, in the development of the country. The policy's goal is to promote youth participation in community and civic affairs and to ensure that youth programmes are youth centred. The policy proposes guidelines and strategies that can be used to facilitate participation of the youth in national development.
The policy also spells out the strategic areas that must be addressed in order for Kenya's young people to effectively play their role in nation building. These are: Employment creation, health, education and training, sports and recreation, the environment, art and culture, the media and participation and empowerment.
The youth are classified into priority target groups to make it easier to tackle challenges unique to each group. The priority groups are: Youth with disability, street youth, youth infected with Aids, female youth, unemployed youth and out of school youth.
The implementation plan is to ensure that the policy becomes a reality. It suggests the formation of a National Youth Council to facilitate, co-ordinate, monitor, advocate and promote youth issues and youth-led initiatives, under the ministry in charge. The Institutional Framework will minimize duplicity and enhance efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery to the youth. It is in this light that the policy proposes that the youth division be upgraded into a department to effectively spearhead the process.
The policy will be revised every five years and as and when other government policy documents are revised.
Objectives:
The Vision of the National Youth Policy
A society where youth have equal opportunity to realise their fullest potential to
productively participate in economic, social, political, cultural and religious life
without fear or favour.
The Goal
The overall goal of the policy is to promote youth participation in democratic processes as well as in community and civic affairs and to ensure that youth programmes engage the youth and are youth centred.
Milestones:
IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS
The policy shall be implemented through an action plan detailing strategies, activities, target groups, time frame and the budget lines. Implementation will require involvement of all agencies dealing with the youth. These include Government ministries as the main agencies, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and various youth organisations. The Ministry responsible for youth affairs shall spearhead the overall policy implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review, in addition to mobilizing resources necessary for the implementation. Partnerships within the different organisations will play a key role in achieving the policy's objectives.
Budget:
The assumptions underlying the action plan framework include the following:
-the National Youth Action Plan will be approved by the Cabinet
-funds will be made available by the Government, the private sector and development partners;
-the National Youth Council is formed ,
-the youth shall take a lead in executing the functions of the National Youth Council
-relevant stakeholders will enforce the principles of the Policy;
-a spirit of volunteerism supports the implementation of the activities
- the Minmistry of Youth Affairs have the capacity to implement the objectives.
Needs:
A multitude and diversity of stakeholders have to become active participants of the process in order to make the National Youth Policy a reality.
These include the relevant line Ministries that have been assigned the responsibility to achieve many of the outputs of the action plan.
It also includes the proposed National Youth Council as the body representing the interests of the youth and youth serving organisations.
Other stakeholders are development partners, NGOs and CBOs, local and district authorities, the private sector and the media, as well as individual experts in the thematic areas.
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