{"id":7305,"date":"2020-01-07T08:20:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","slug":"unlock-the-blue-economy-for-job-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/07\/unlock-the-blue-economy-for-job-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlock The Blue Economy For Job Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Business Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Efforts by Kenya to tap the unexploited potential of the\nmaritime industry, commonly known as the \u2018Blue Economy\u2019, came into sharp focus\nrecently when a youth gathering in Mombasa raised concerns over the delay by\nthe government in creating an integrated policy framework to chart a way\nforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference was a follow up to a Global Sustainable\nBlue Economy Conference that was held in Kenya last year, which made a number\nof recommendations that the country must put in place to tap into the\nopportunities in the Blue Economy for economic growth and job creation among\nthe youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Youth Congress, a local non-governmental organisation that has partnered with the Canadian High Commission and the UN-Habitat has already presented some recommendations that will only be implementable if anchored on a focused policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/letters\/Unlock-the-blue-economy-for-job-creation\/4307714-5408748-owplx0z\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily Efforts by Kenya to tap the unexploited potential of the maritime industry, commonly known as the \u2018Blue Economy\u2019, came into sharp focus recently when a youth gathering&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}