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Kenya Youth Opportunity Dashboard

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Kenya Youth Opportunity Dashboard

Overview

An interactive web dashboard that maps youth unemployment, education access, and internet connectivity across all 47 Kenyan counties — giving policymakers, researchers, and civil society a single spatial lens on youth opportunity gaps in Kenya.

The dashboard ranks counties into two actionable groups: Top 10 counties with highest unemployment (priority for investment) and Bottom 10 counties with lowest unemployment (model cases to learn from).

Live Dashboard: wanjiru-1.github.io/-kenya-youth-dashboard/

The Problem

Kenya's youth unemployment crisis is spatially uneven — yet national policy often treats it as a uniform challenge. County-level data existed in siloed reports and spreadsheets, making it hard for decision-makers to see where the need is greatest or what success looks like.

What I Built

A fully interactive Leaflet.js choropleth map where each county is shaded by education access percentage and clicking a county opens a popup with three indicators:

  • Youth Unemployment (e.g. Embu County: 15.2%)
  • Education Access (e.g. Embu: 70%)
  • Internet Access (e.g. Embu: 53%)

Below the map, ranked tables surface the 10 counties most in need of investment and the 10 performing best — turning a map into an actionable policy brief.

Tools & Methods

Tool Purpose
Leaflet.js Interactive choropleth map
JavaScript Dashboard logic and popups
GeoJSON County boundary data
National datasets Youth, education & ICT indicators
GitHub Pages Deployment

Key Insights

  • Education access ranges widely across counties, from under 50% to over 80%
  • Internet access is often the binding constraint in counties with good education coverage
  • The relationship between education access and youth employment is non-linear — internet infrastructure matters as much

Year

2024 – 2025