Omukhango, MaryEtyang, Martin N.2024-03-042024-03-042022Omukhango, M., & Etyang, M. N. (2022). Institutional Factors Influencing the Effective Implementation of Youth Unemployment Intervention Programmes in Nakuru County, Kenya. Asian Journal of Economics, Finance and Management, 4(1), 123–131. Retrieved from https://globalpresshub.com/index.php/AJEFM/article/view/1474https://globalpresshub.com/index.php/AJEFM/article/view/1474https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/27720articleGlobally, youth population is growing and the challenges the youth face are growing in tandem over the years. However, the present job market has proved difficult and not easy to penetrate among the youths due to lack of job openings among many employers. According to ILO [1] report youth unemployment rate was 11.8 percent in both 2018 and 2019, with more than 59 million youth worldwide jobless in both years. Many more were struggling with non-profitable businesses and deplorable working conditions. The economic future foundation of a country’s population is the youth. The security of a nation and the pace of development are defined by the energy, innovation, orientation and character of its youth [2-6]. However globally over the years, the Youth challenges have been growing, National Youth Policy, (2007). In 2007, Kenyans 30 years of age and below constituted about 75 percent of the total population. This formed the largest source of human resources. Despite this, they were still on the sidelines of the nation's affairs and had been left out from structuring, planning and actualizing projects and policies that influenced their livelihoods, National Youth Policy, (2007). Even though Kenyan's population was growing by one million people annually in the period between 1979 and 2009, its population growth rate had dropped from 3.8 percent in 1979, 3.3 in 1989 and to 2.9 in 2009. The high population growth rate of the previous years brought about the present youth bulge UNDP report, (2013). According to the Kenyan Population Census, 2019 results the current youth Population (aged between 18 and 35 years) is 14,539,383 which includes 6,992,606, Male youth, 7,546,180 females and 597 Intersex youth, Kenya Population and Housing Census, Volume III [7]. Over the years, Kenya has experimented with different youth employment policies and intervention programmes. Between 1963 and 2013, 17 policy measures and programmes were implemented nationally at one point or another, with job creation as the main goal. Regardless of this huge number of unemployment intervention programmes, there was some continuity that is 10 of the 17 measures was a constant in the entire period’s menu of policy UNDP, (2013). In Kenya, like in the rest of the world, the government has made efforts to deal with youth problems of unemployment and youth empowerment. The Government of Kenya (GOK) has made efforts to start youth development programmes via policy documents like Sessional Paper Number 4 of 2005, Sessional Paper Number 2 of 1992 on Jua Kali Enterprises and Small Scale businesses, Development Plan (1997-2001), the Poverty Eradication Plan (1999- 2015) and introduction of the Youth Enterprise Development Funds in 2005 among other affirmative funds, Youth Enterprise Development Fund Status report, (2009), revamping of Youth polytechnics in 2007, ‘Kazi Kwa Vijana’ (KKV) world bank initiative launched in 2009 that targeted employment for 200,000 to 300,000 youths each year in urban and rural areas in projects that entail government funded works and are labour-intensive Republic of Kenya, (2010) and the Kenya Youth Empowerment Programme (KYEP) launched in July 2010 aimed at strengthening the KKV by provision of youth training and internships and enhancement of the capacities of youth officers UNDP, (2013). The UWEZO fund scheme of 2013, the National Youth Service (NYS) Youth empowerment programme, 2015 and the Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project (KYEOP), 2018 are among the latest intervention programmes toward curbing youth unemployment. However, these interventions seem to have had minimal impact on the state of youth unemployment. This study used Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) and Uwezo fund which have received the largest youth funding and which were proposed for a merger to form the Biashara Fund by the treasury in the financial year in the 2018/2019 budget Budget of Kenya, (2019).enInstitutional factorseffective implementationyouth unemployment interventions programmesArticle