Survey: Poor people in slums do not know about Youth Fund

General Secretary United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Unctad, Dr Mukhisa Kituyi examine Cowboy Hat before buying it at Sh.2000 from Anne Lilly Market and Linkages at Youth Enterprise Fund Stall at Exhibition centre KICC. A week long meeting born The Nairobi Consensus document is adopted to guide the mandate of UNCTAD for the next four years and will mainly focus on trade and investments amongst the 194 UNCTAD member states. It is estimated that Africa loses about $50 billion (Sh5 trillion) annually to illicit financial flows through tax evasion, tax avoidance and profit shifting by multinational corporations. July 21, 2016. [PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD]

A majority of youth in low income settlements have never heard of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and therefore have never used it, a new survey shows.

According to a study  by the Pan African Research Services on utilisation of the fund released over the weekend and covering slums in Nairobi, Makueni, Machakos, Uasin Gishu and Kisumu,  less than one fifth of the youths in these areas stated they had utilised the fund.