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    "content": "FURTHER AWARE THAT youth polytechnics provide industrial and entrepreneurial skills training to young people in order to increase employment opportunities, reduce dependency levels and increase self- reliance among the youth; RECALLING THAT in 2005, the Youth Training Department of the then Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports was established through the Presidential Circular No.1 of 2005, with a mandate of revitalizing the Youth Polytechnics countrywide in order to empower youth through provision of accessible, appropriate and quality training in technical, vocational, industrial, entrepreneurship and life skills; COGNIZANT THAT youth polytechnics are a devolved function; PERSUADED THAT Vocational Education and Training is a critical aspect for a developing economy and that it would contribute towards the realization of the Big Four Agenda; CONCERNED THAT, in Kenya, the number of young people who have completed the primary school education but have not joined secondary schools continues to rise by the day; FURTHER CONCERNED THAT county governments have not prioritized youth polytechnic functions despite the polytechnics’ capacity to ultimately contribute to both social and economic development; NOW THEREFORE the Senate calls upon each of the 47 county governments to establish youth polytechnics in every location within their respective the areas of jurisdiction and to revamp the already existing youth polytechnics; b) to develop a structure/guideline for sensitizing the youth who have completed their primary school education but have not joined form one to embrace vocational training in order to acquire the necessary skills to join the labour market."
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