Despite a long history of technical, vocational education, and training (TVET) in Kenya, including substantial financial investments, youth unemployment remains high, particularly among women. While the TVET curriculum addresses important gaps in technical skills, it often ignores soft-skills. A team of local PEP researchers found that providing gender-sensitive soft-skills training as part of TVET courses smooths the students’ school-to-work transitions, improving their job search efforts and increasing the likelihood of full-time employment. The training was particularly effective for improving the actual labour market outcomes of young women who believe they have control over what happens in their lives.
Find out more about the research methods, findings and policy recommendations in the following PEP publications:
Working Paper coming soon | Policy Brief 278 | More about Gender-Sensitive Intervention to Improve Women’s Labour Market Outcomes
