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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

Training young girls and women

One-line solution summary:

Female youth unemployment is high even though young females tend to engage in home-making activities and other miscellaneous chores more tha

Pitch your solution.

Training young girls and women will help in overcoming employment gaps by:

Providing new knowledge or information which helps them to perform better and encourage them to start their own enterprises.
To learn physical skills which are important for self-employment and build a channel of a skilled workforce?
To develop social skills for example leadership or teamwork abilities which are useful in dealing with customers as employees or in their own enterprises.
To impart necessary skills so that they become efficient and are profitable to the enterprise.
Prepared approach to adapt to the latest market trends.
Enhanced productivity
A better understanding of systems and processes within the specialization area
Better profits.

What specific problem are you solving?

Female youth unemployment is high even though young females tend to engage in home-making activities and other miscellaneous chores more than males. Kenya faces a significant unemployment problem that affects young people. Youth unemployment rates are several times higher than the rates among adults and particularly among females. As young people grow up, they stop depending on other people’s income and become independent. During their transition from childhood to adulthood, access to good jobs of acceptable quality is essential for youth to acquire independence from their parents, brighten their prospects in the job market and enhance their prospects of forming a family. The capacity to create formal jobs has fluctuated over time; declining growth rates have also implied decreasing rates of formal job creation. The most pressing challenge is to provide jobs for young women aged between 18 and 25 years.

What is your solution?

Provision of training in hospitality.The course will be composed of skills required for employment in housekeeping and cookery skills.There has been a growing demand for skilled workers in the domestic industry in Kenya.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

I would like to train young women and girls from KIAMBU county,Kenya IN A local slum known as Kiamburi.This slum has about 500 hundred marginalized familiesThese families are poor and each of them has young woman and girls who have no skills for employment.Due to this identified problem the families cannot afford their basic needs and live in very poor conditions.

I advise them on the basic courses they should take and also give them casual jobs from time to time.Once they get the skill training they will be able to access the job industry.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Increase the number of girls and young women participating in formal and informal learning and training

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge and your selected dimension.

Female and young women unemployment is a major problem in Kenya.Once they are unable to further their education young girls get married at a very early age.They are unable to get any meaningful employment due to lack of skill.The training will impact the skills needed for employment.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Kiambu, Kenya

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

Technical University of Kenya