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State urged to involve youth in decision-making

Karen Nyamu. She says young people are systematically excluded from the important arena of decision-making and development processes. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Efforts to transform Kenya into a middle income country could fail if the Government continues to exclude the youth from critical decision-making processes.

Leaders now say without pro-youth economic policies, Kenya’s growth strategies would remain a mirage. “Yet young people are seldom recognised as a resource in decision-making processes. Instead, they are systematically excluded from important arena of decision-making and development processes. Their perspectives are often absent in policy-making,” Ms Karen Nyamu (pictured), a leader, told a youth meeting at Dandora in Nairobi yesterday. The meeting was themed “The road to 2030: Eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable production and consumption.”

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