 Unemployment is a major challenge that affects youth across Kenya. Approximately 800,000 young Kenyans enter the labour market every year and youth unemployment is estimated to be as high as 35% compared to the overall national unemployment rate of 10%. More than a third of Kenya's youth eligible for work have no jobs in a business environment and the government is struggling to tackle the country's acute unemployment problem. Kenya's national youth policy emphasises the potential of the agriculture sector as a source of employment. The daily sub-sector, while not mentioned, is a current source of employment and as such, better understanding of how young women and men engage in the sector and how the sector can support employment is needed. At the International Livestock Research Institute campus in Nairobi, a study was started to understand current and emerging ways that the youth participate in the daily sub-sector. This study's objective was to understand how location, living in a rural or periaban location and social norms influence a young woman or man's potential in daily value chains. The study took place in rural sub-counties in Nakuru County and periaban sub-counties in Kambu County. One of the goals of Ildris Project was to create a space for the youth to voice their insights and concerns in their own words, which they did at a peer-to-peer exchange workshop. I'm a graduate. I've been looking for a job for almost 10 years. Unfortunately, there's no job. So I decided to get in dairy farming due to unemployment. That has rise. So after starting the dairy farming, I've seen more of success in dairy farming. It's more profitable and it's more involved, especially in youth. I went into this dairy farming in 2012 after I finished high school. I lost my mother in 2009 and I lost my father while I was 2 years. So I finished high school and then I saw the opportunity in dairy. In this dairy sector, I plant a lot in pasture. I have all the knowledge in that. I do record keeping. I do the hygiene of the cow, the nutrition, the whole around nutrition. That's why every year I have hayfa. Then I've reduced the intercalvary because of those records. So I have a pedigree now. I see this is a good idea. The study also established that young women and men in rural and periaban locations participate differently in dairy value chains, often because of cultural norms. Although young women in periaban locations and income and managed dairy enterprises, young rural women are often prohibited from independently managing dairy enterprises. I've been to Kitambo. I've been to Kitambo. I've been to Kitambo. I've been to Kitambo. I've been to Kitambo. I've been to Kitambo. I've been to Kitambo. In our days, kama iki kujani construction, baka, baka wana ume wana iki akwa, construction, wana construct, yubayangombe, tena, iki kujani kukamua, the same same wana tunafanya the both, iki kujani kama syrage, kweka fonda, hiyo tunafanya the both. Kenya dairy board has put measures that are too high for us sometimes. Like the licensing, for you to be in the milk industry, there are licenses that you have to acquire for you to be licensed to do the sales in the informal sector, of which it is the most beneficial sector. But unfortunately the license, the costs for you licensing, it's too high and they don't take gradual or instalments. So I would recommend them, maybe they lower the cost for insurance and also they can offer training on the standards that they want us to meet. Maindi gunia ni shilingi elfumbili nakina pahali unapata ni hiyo bei nakini maziwa unapata wakatimugina ikoju, wakatimugina iko chini sasa tunakua nashida sana. Kweza kupata hiyo bei yamaziwa. Clearly then, to enable growth in the dairy sub-sector, which in turn will lessen the burden of unemployment, there should be concerted effort from the private sector, academia and government to enable research and develop innovative business models and enabling national policies. Thank you.