Abstract:
The purpose of the study will be to investigate the effects of youth fund on the quality of youth livelihood in Eldoret West District. The specific objectives of the study will be to establish the effect of access to capital in the livelihood of youth in Eldoret West District, to determine the effect of business skills on youth livelihood, to establish the effects of commercial infrastructure on youth livelihood in Eldoret West District The study will adopt the Critical theory by Michael Oliver (1996), which covers the importance of youth fund to livelihood of youths in Eldoret West District the research will adopt explanatory research design to carry out the study since it involves the study of a entire district, to ensure adequate representation. The researcher will use stratified sampling to get the representative sample for the youths who will be stratified according to their divisions Data collection instrument to be used will be questionnaires and interview schedules. The data collected will be analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study hopes therefore to find out the importance of youth fund to livelihood of youths in Eldoret West District. Data analysis will be done by the use of frequency tables. Further inferential statistic correlation will be used to test the significance of the study while multiple regression moments will be used to test the hypothesis.The study has been chosen due to the high number of complaints and challenges faced by youths in accessing youth funds. The complaints include stringent conditions by banks and MFIs, delay in release of cheques, the need to be in a group in order to benefit from the fund,no entrepreneurship training and the feeling that only the youth in urban areas benefit from the funds and finally on the lack of accessibility to the fund by the youth in hardship areas.
