National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement Project

active

Prospective

The National Youth Towards Advancement (NYOTA) is a scale up of the Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Program (KYEOP), supported by the World Bank (P151831), which provides a proven comprehensive platform that addresses supply, demand and intermediation constraints faced by vulnerable youth. The proposed program will specifically target vulnerable youth aged 18 to 29 with no more than secondary education, working across 47 counties throughout Kenya. Its main activities will be towards increasing employability of youth, providing business support, and providing opportunities for savings to create resilience and strengthen systems and capacity of national and county-level implementing agencies to support youth employment and savings initiatives.The project will be implemented nationally in all the 47 counties, it will focus to increase employment, earnings opportunities, and savings among targeted youth through integrated interventions on skills development, self-employment, entrepreneurship, and savings. Due to the project’s national coverage, project interventions will be implemented in areas with Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan Africa Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communities, known in Kenya as Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups (VMGs), as well as other traditionally excluded groups. As such, the exclusion of target youths (youths with limited education, youths in rural areas and hard-to-serve areas, VMG communities and minority clans, youth with disabilities, youths living with HIV/AIDs, young mothers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), women, single parents, the homeless, at-risk children and other vulnerable and disadvantaged youths), from accessing project benefits and opportunities due to biased identification and selection of beneficiaries, inadequate engagement, project investments rolled out in a context of limited resources against widespread need, elite capture, exclusion of youth with disabilities, access for persons with literacy, and mobility challenges is anticipated. It is foreseen that the participating interns and youths that will participate in apprenticeship may be exposed to potential occupational, safety and health (OSH) risks and impacts in the course of their internship and apprenticeship roles both in the public and private sectors. The proposed project activities listed below are not expected to result in significant adverse environmental and social risks and impacts. Component 1: Improving youth employability will connect targeted youth to wage employment by providing them with the skills that are being demanded by employers and linking them to relevant work opportunities. Component 2: Support to youth entrepreneurship will provide better economic opportunities through entrepreneurship development for targeted youth. Component 3: Supporting youth savings will provide saving opportunities f or workers in the informal economy, of which 50 percent will be female. This will address the key design, behavioral, and operational constraints that limit the participation of vulnerable youth in savings schemes. Component 4: Strengthening youth employment and savings systems will support the systems and capacity of national and county-level implementing agencies to support youth employment and savings initiatives. The component will also strengthen these systems at the policy, program and delivery levels.

FY17 - Information and Communications Technologies,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank

Project

Government, Education