Entrepreneurial Factors Influencing the Performance of Government Funded Youth Group Enterprises in Turbo Sub-County Uasin Gishu County - Kenya

Abstract

Kenyan's young people experience unemployment and scarcity of job opportunities due to increased influx of new graduates from Universities and other learning institutions. One of government's initiatives to boost youths economically was by funding youth group enterprises through the program called Youth Enterprise Development Funds (YEDF) and Uwezo fund. In Uasin Gishu it is reported that youth unemployment remains to be high with more than 600,000 youths unemployed compared to other counties. The study was guided by four objectives; establish the influence of group leadership on the performance of government funded youth group enterprises; determine the contribution of Entrepreneurship skills on the performance of government funded youth group enterprises; find out the role of entrepreneurial resources on the performance of government funded youth group enterprises and find out the role of entrepreneurial vision on the performance of government funded youth group enterprises Turbo Sub-County Uasin Gishu County. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design; used stratified random and random sampling to get respondents for the study. Simple and multiple linear regressions was used to show how independent variables related to dependent (performance of group enterprises). From the study it was found out that though majority of youth group enterprises 77.7% are not doing well in terms of performance. It was found out that most of government fund beneficiaries do not have some of important skills such as entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial vision necessary for good business performance.