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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
For two hectic months in 1972 an I.L.O./U.N.D.P. mission gathered in Nairobi to deliberate on the employment problems facing Kenya. The report which was published before the end of the year received a good deal of publicity,1 much of it complimentary, and served as a blue print for subsequent I.L.O. employment missions to other developing countries.2 Six years later it seems opportune to review briefly those of its recommendations which were specifically aimed at the agricultural sector, and to assess the extent to which they have influenced the policies of the Government.
page 311 note 1 Employment, Incomes and Equaliy. A Strategy for Increasivg Productive Employment in Kenya (Geneva, 1972).
page 311 note 2 For example, Sharing in Development: a programme of employment, equity and growth for the Philppines (Geneva, 1974), and Growth, Employment and Equity: a comprehensive strategy for the Sudan (Geneva, 1976).
page 312 note 1 Republic of Kenya, Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1973, Employment (Nairobi, 1973).
page 312 note 2 Ghai, Dharam in the East African Standard (Nairobi).Google Scholar
page 312 note 3 Sundrum, R. M., ‘Development, Equality and Employment’, in Economic Record (Victoria, Australia), 50, 131, 1974.Google Scholar
page 312 note 4 Review by Rado, E. R. of Employment Policies in Developing Countries by Mouly, J. and Coster, E., in The Economic Journal (London), 03 1976, p. 159.Google Scholar
page 313 note 1 Leys, Colin, Underdevelopment in Kenya: the political economy of neo-colonialism, 1964–1971 (London, 1975), pp. 261–2.Google Scholar
page 314 note 1 A Mission working paper also endorsed the view of the van Arkadie Mission that farmers should only occupy new settlement farms on a tenancy and not an ownership basis.
page 314 note 2 Republic of Kenya, Report of the Select Committee on Unemployment (Nairobi, 1970).
page 314 note 3 Republic of Kenya, Development Plan, 1974–1978, Part 1 (Nairobi, 1974).
page 316 note 1 Cf.Godfrey, Martin, ‘The ILO Kenya Report and Basic Needs: implementation and projects’, p. 8,Google Scholar Kenya National Seminar on Employment and Basic Needs, Mombasa, 1977: ‘Some of the measures taken are perhaps surprising in the extent to which they confront vested interests.’
page 317 note 1 I am indebted to Professor Hans Ruthenburg for the information that follows.
page 318 note 1 See Heyer, J. et al. (eds), Agricultural Development in Kenya (Nairobi, 1976), ch. 6.Google Scholar
