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The Kenyan youth constitute the majority of the 40 million adding up to 75% of Kenyan population. It is therefore necessary that youth agendas be given priority as a means of national development. Main issues affecting the youth in Kenya range from unemployment, social vices, access to relevant education and lack of meaningful engagement on issues that affect them. The current eleventh parliament has posed a major milestone for the youth as it is constituted of a higher number of youth legislators in the history of Kenya. This is a ripe opportunity to have the issues of the Kenyan youth addressed fundamentally even for posterity purposes. However, the youth legislators do not have a platform where they can push their combined efforts to ensure that the youth of Kenya can have their lives enhanced.

The Kenya Young Parliamentarian Association was established as a parliamentary caucus for the Kenyan legislators who fall in the bracket of youth as defined in the new constitution. KYPA’s mission is to build a consultative framework to enhance collaboration between young parliamentarians and the youth constituent that they represent. However the young Members of the Eleventh Parliament are yet to reopen the operations of the Association. Interested Members have organized a residential workshop for all youthful parliamentarians’ to be held early August 2013 time to harmonize on the approach and strategy in addressing challenges facing the Kenyan youth and to elect KYPAs leaders from the current Parliament.