Impact Sourcing

The vast majority of Africa's unemployed youth come from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds. With few resources and limited access to education and training, they lack necessary knowledge and skills to qualify for formal employment or to even engage in productive work in the informal sector. They remain trapped in a downward cycle of ignorance and economic marginalization. According to Kamau et al, (2001), the current official unemployment rate in Kenya stands at 40 percent and approximately 65 percent of the labor force is made up of young people.

The Kenya Government Vision 2030 is a national long-term development blue-print whose aim is to create a globally competitive and prosperous nation with a high quality of life by year 2030. The vision is anchored on three key pillars namely Economic, Social and Political governance. One of the Economic pillars is Information Technology (IT) enabled services, others being Tourism, Agriculture, Wholesale and Retail Trade, Manufacturing and Financial services. The Kenya ICT Board, KICTB was established by H. E. President Mwai Kibaki, as a state corporation under the State Corporations Act Cap. 446 on 19th February 2007. KICTB's mandate is to develop and market Kenya as an ICT investment destination, develop the ICT industry and empower Kenyans to leverage ICT to improve their standards of living (Kamau et al, 2001). By providing IT enabled services and promoting Kenya as a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) destination, the Government recognizes the potential of the BPO industry in wealth and job creation by leveraging on information

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