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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JCARM</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Contemporary Academic Research and Methodologies</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title>JCARM</abbrev-journal-title>
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            <issn pub-type="epub">3139-7247</issn>
            <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Ivory and Finch Publishers</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5281/zenodo.21296118</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JCARM_JUN_26_086</article-id>

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          <subject>Case Study</subject>
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        <article-title>MITIGATION FOR YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN VIHIGA COUNTY, KENYA</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
                        <surname>Richard</surname>
            <given-names>kutai</given-names>
          </name>
                    <aff>Maseno University</aff>
          <email>kutairichard21@gmail.com</email>
        </contrib>
                                          <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                                <surname>Yasin Kuso Ghabon </surname>
                <given-names>Dr</given-names>
              </name>
                                          <aff>Lecturer</aff>
                          </contrib>
                                    </contrib-group>

            <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>10</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      
      
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21296118"/>
      
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        <p>Unemployment among the youth especially in Africa is continuing to pose a serious threat to current and future governments. Most of the countries, Kenya included continuous to grapple with the increasing rate of unemployed youth graduating from secondary level of education and higher institutions of learning. Higher institutions of learning continue to graduate thousands of graduates in different fields each year with very little jobs created in the economy that is from both the private and public sectors. This leaves very many graduates at all levels grappling with unemployment both in the formal and informal sector. </p>
      </abstract>

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                <kwd>Youth Unemployment</kwd>
                <kwd>Vihiga County</kwd>
                <kwd>Policy Analysis</kwd>
                <kwd>Economic Development</kwd>
                <kwd>Skill Development</kwd>
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      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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                <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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        <copyright-statement>Copyright &copy; 2026 by the authors</copyright-statement>
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          <license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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