Youth Empowerment and Rural Development in Rongo District

This study sought to investigate the role of youth empowerment on rural development in Rongo district. Specifically the study sought to: identify the activities carried out by the youth in Kazi Kwa Vijana programme in Rongo district, establish the influence of the project accessibility of the youth empowerment programmes on rural development in Rongo district, determine the relationship between the level of youth participation in the empowerment programmes and rural development in Rongo district, and establish the relationship between the length of youth empowerment programmes and rural development in Rongo district. The study recommends that there is need of engaging the private sector in providing employment and training and that priority should be given to sub-projects that can be implemented rapidly using labor intensive techniques. Rongo district should adopt the best practice operational features of public works program. Together with the International Labour organization, the Government should endeavor to master the management of the implemented programs and develop a design that allows for flexibility based on demand, with possible scaling-up and scaling-down as necessary.