After graduation what next?

Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa has attracted attention from global and local development institutions. In the last two decades poverty has deepened in spite of the numerous social, economic and political interventions made by development practitioners and civil societies. The interventions which include: water provision, afforestation, agriculture, business development, education and skill development, entrepreneurship and micro finance (projects and programmes) have been high on the agenda of development practitioners, government and civil societies. Unfortunately, the antidote of poverty remedial policies and interventions have however been ellusive. Notwithstanding the frustrations generated by increased poverty and collapse of projects and programmes aimed at poverty alleviation and wealth generation, there is no let up in the battle and struggle against poverty. Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSPs) is the most recent government efforts of taming and slowing down poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, the implementation of PRSPs is rather slow and its fruits have yet to be realised. Several antidotes for poverty alleviation have been tried. Youth polytechnic education is one of the antidotes that have been adopted by government to alleviate poverty.

Year

2007

Language

English

Series

IDS occasional paper -- no. 71

Publisher

Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi

Editions

1

Pages

77

ISBN

9789966786066

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