today from the time you woke up this
morning till the time you go back home
and go to sleep
3,000 Kenyan babies would have been born
over a million Kenyan
babies would be born every year which
means that every year with the number of
young people that are joining the
workforce it’s between the age group of
15 to 24 that you’re gonna find close to
a million young people joining the
workforce now imagine that every 24
hours nearly 33,000 young people in
Africa are joining the workforce and
with that number
imagine that we get approximately close
to 10 to 12 million young people in
Africa joining the workforce Kenya
ladies and gentlemen needs a million
jobs every year for the next ten years
to cater to this expanding youth bulge
but we are creating barely about a
hundred thousand to 150,000 new jobs now
unemployment is a scourge unemployment
has many challenges that accompany it
for example the scourge of violent
extremism in Africa the United Nations
Development Program recently did an
event and a study called the journey to
violent extremism in Africa look at the
reasons that people join violent
extremist groups and the first and
foremost amongst it is extreme poverty
second is youth marginalization
third is increasing inequality fourth is
instability and fifth is high levels of
illiteracy these are the primary
contributors it is not religion that is
defining insurgencies and violent
extremism it is not your ethnicity which
defines it it’s that lack of opportunity
it’s that sense of despondency it’s that
sense of hopelessness and the best way
to tackle it is to really look at the
challenges of whatever term as for ease
and keep these for ease in mind the
first and foremost is the right
education and skills for the right
emerging market without that we will not
be able to find the kind of jobs that
are needed or find employable people for
those jobs
second is empowerment as the previous
speaker said unless and until we make
sure that women joined the workforce
unless and until we make sure that every
girl achieves a full human potential
Kenya or Africa will not realize its
full potential because 50% of that
workforce is being left behind the third
is a Marshall Plan of employment
we need employment at a scale which is
tremendous that Marshall plan of
employment should have the dignity of
Labor from a plumber to a Mason to a
carpenter to a scientist to a road
worker to a bridge builder but the whole
scope must offer us that opportunity you
just saw a slide before this of a boat
and that is the real story of the
African migrant that is the real story
of what happened in Lampa deucer that is
the real story of young people escaping
their situation at home escaping
instability escaping poverty escaping a
lack of opportunity and making that
journey
imagine when from the 10 to 12 million
African young people that join the
workforce with barely about 3 million
jobs when those numbers start to cross
the oceans it’s not just Africa
experiencing instability it’s also the
West and other parts of the world
experienced it
our best opportunity is to make those
investments in those for ease the 4th
evening equity when there is iniquity
when there is marginalization when there
people who are being left out of the
development curve there are challenges
that accompany it we want to change that
status quo we want to change that
situation and that can’t happen by one
entity that happens when the
public-private partnerships come
together when the whole agenda of right
political will it comes together when
public policy accompanies that political
will
when partnerships come into play and
this partnerships covers everything
because the future is here let me give
you another statistic by 2030
agriculture and Africa will be one
trillion dollars worth the median age of
a farmer ladies and gentlemen in Kenya
is 61 the median age of this country is
18 this country’s population was the
same as Sweden in 1956 7 million today’s
Sweden is 10 million Kenya is 46 million
by 2030 Kenya will be 65 million by 2050
Kenya will be 85 million by 2050 Africa
will be 830 million by 2050 there will
be 850 million young people in Africa
now whether this is a demographic
dividend or a disaster depends on
exactly those four ease that we need to
invest in now because if we do it right
not only does Africa become the future
markets of the offer for the rest of the
world but becomes the supplier of
phenomenal human capital to the rest of
the world but that incentive that
initiative has to come through to us
collectively as the UN family as schools
as public policy experts as a political
leadership and the private sector two
things will underpin this change which
needs to be the prime movers the right
education and skill set is not just
achieving a master’s degree and getting
higher degrees it’s also being a good
the plumber and a carpenter and all that
it must be about the dignity of Labor so
the right education and skills for the
devolve in market and the second is
access to good primary health care that
defines the total fertility rate of a
woman good health care the birth of a
child in many counties in Kenya where
the total voted rate is between seven
and eight is like the rule of a dice
only because people don’t know how many
of these children will survive once
there is a predictability once a woman
is sure that her children will survive
then what happens is she’s able to plan
her family a woman must have the choice
over her reproductive health and over
and and the right over her own body
it should not be defined by anybody else
that is what will change the economy not
just of Kenya but there can be up there
but the economy of Africa because unless
we see the micro economic change at the
household level whether husband and wife
both earn an income what happens then is
children are better educated there is
better nutrition there is better
opportunities for that child and that’s
what starts to change it so if you look
at Western Europe post Second World War
where they came out of the misery that
inundated them there was a Marshall Plan
that came into play women joined the
workforce and as a result of it they
started to prosper look at the Asian
Tigers the model of South Korea
Singapore Japan Thailand Malaysia
countries that really pushed their
economies forward pulled people out of
poverty that’s the opportunity that
awaits us here in Africa but those
change agents are going to be the young
you from this school the young in Africa
will define that wave forward so we have
no choice now to put on to roll up our
sleeves to move this whole agenda
forward because we have to make sure
that Kenya like the rest of Africa grows
rich before it grows old thank you
you
morning till the time you go back home
and go to sleep
3,000 Kenyan babies would have been born
over a million Kenyan
babies would be born every year which
means that every year with the number of
young people that are joining the
workforce it’s between the age group of
15 to 24 that you’re gonna find close to
a million young people joining the
workforce now imagine that every 24
hours nearly 33,000 young people in
Africa are joining the workforce and
with that number
imagine that we get approximately close
to 10 to 12 million young people in
Africa joining the workforce Kenya
ladies and gentlemen needs a million
jobs every year for the next ten years
to cater to this expanding youth bulge
but we are creating barely about a
hundred thousand to 150,000 new jobs now
unemployment is a scourge unemployment
has many challenges that accompany it
for example the scourge of violent
extremism in Africa the United Nations
Development Program recently did an
event and a study called the journey to
violent extremism in Africa look at the
reasons that people join violent
extremist groups and the first and
foremost amongst it is extreme poverty
second is youth marginalization
third is increasing inequality fourth is
instability and fifth is high levels of
illiteracy these are the primary
contributors it is not religion that is
defining insurgencies and violent
extremism it is not your ethnicity which
defines it it’s that lack of opportunity
it’s that sense of despondency it’s that
sense of hopelessness and the best way
to tackle it is to really look at the
challenges of whatever term as for ease
and keep these for ease in mind the
first and foremost is the right
education and skills for the right
emerging market without that we will not
be able to find the kind of jobs that
are needed or find employable people for
those jobs
second is empowerment as the previous
speaker said unless and until we make
sure that women joined the workforce
unless and until we make sure that every
girl achieves a full human potential
Kenya or Africa will not realize its
full potential because 50% of that
workforce is being left behind the third
is a Marshall Plan of employment
we need employment at a scale which is
tremendous that Marshall plan of
employment should have the dignity of
Labor from a plumber to a Mason to a
carpenter to a scientist to a road
worker to a bridge builder but the whole
scope must offer us that opportunity you
just saw a slide before this of a boat
and that is the real story of the
African migrant that is the real story
of what happened in Lampa deucer that is
the real story of young people escaping
their situation at home escaping
instability escaping poverty escaping a
lack of opportunity and making that
journey
imagine when from the 10 to 12 million
African young people that join the
workforce with barely about 3 million
jobs when those numbers start to cross
the oceans it’s not just Africa
experiencing instability it’s also the
West and other parts of the world
experienced it
our best opportunity is to make those
investments in those for ease the 4th
evening equity when there is iniquity
when there is marginalization when there
people who are being left out of the
development curve there are challenges
that accompany it we want to change that
status quo we want to change that
situation and that can’t happen by one
entity that happens when the
public-private partnerships come
together when the whole agenda of right
political will it comes together when
public policy accompanies that political
will
when partnerships come into play and
this partnerships covers everything
because the future is here let me give
you another statistic by 2030
agriculture and Africa will be one
trillion dollars worth the median age of
a farmer ladies and gentlemen in Kenya
is 61 the median age of this country is
18 this country’s population was the
same as Sweden in 1956 7 million today’s
Sweden is 10 million Kenya is 46 million
by 2030 Kenya will be 65 million by 2050
Kenya will be 85 million by 2050 Africa
will be 830 million by 2050 there will
be 850 million young people in Africa
now whether this is a demographic
dividend or a disaster depends on
exactly those four ease that we need to
invest in now because if we do it right
not only does Africa become the future
markets of the offer for the rest of the
world but becomes the supplier of
phenomenal human capital to the rest of
the world but that incentive that
initiative has to come through to us
collectively as the UN family as schools
as public policy experts as a political
leadership and the private sector two
things will underpin this change which
needs to be the prime movers the right
education and skill set is not just
achieving a master’s degree and getting
higher degrees it’s also being a good
the plumber and a carpenter and all that
it must be about the dignity of Labor so
the right education and skills for the
devolve in market and the second is
access to good primary health care that
defines the total fertility rate of a
woman good health care the birth of a
child in many counties in Kenya where
the total voted rate is between seven
and eight is like the rule of a dice
only because people don’t know how many
of these children will survive once
there is a predictability once a woman
is sure that her children will survive
then what happens is she’s able to plan
her family a woman must have the choice
over her reproductive health and over
and and the right over her own body
it should not be defined by anybody else
that is what will change the economy not
just of Kenya but there can be up there
but the economy of Africa because unless
we see the micro economic change at the
household level whether husband and wife
both earn an income what happens then is
children are better educated there is
better nutrition there is better
opportunities for that child and that’s
what starts to change it so if you look
at Western Europe post Second World War
where they came out of the misery that
inundated them there was a Marshall Plan
that came into play women joined the
workforce and as a result of it they
started to prosper look at the Asian
Tigers the model of South Korea
Singapore Japan Thailand Malaysia
countries that really pushed their
economies forward pulled people out of
poverty that’s the opportunity that
awaits us here in Africa but those
change agents are going to be the young
you from this school the young in Africa
will define that wave forward so we have
no choice now to put on to roll up our
sleeves to move this whole agenda
forward because we have to make sure
that Kenya like the rest of Africa grows
rich before it grows old thank you
you
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