Ideas are cheap. Operations are what last.
YOCED builds the layer underneath youth opportunity in Kenya — the enterprises, field operations, skills and funding routes that turn capability into an income that survives the season.
Five routes in. Pick the one that describes you.
YOCED is deliberately broad, so the first job of this site is to get you out of the parts that are not yours.
- 01I am looking for skills, work or a way in.YOCED is not a place to register and wait. The routes below all connect to something that is already running — a field operation, a venture, a training cycle, a venture that needs people.Youth
- 02I have a business, or the beginning of one.YOCED's enterprise support starts with the operational layer under your business — process, costing, records — because that is what determines whether it can grow, be delegated, or be funded.Entrepreneurs
- 03My organisation works in one of these fields.You do not have to engage with all of YOCED to work with YOCED. Each of the twelve fields has its own page, its own partnership models and its own route in — and each one is built to be sent to a colleague on its own.Partners
- 04I am assessing whether YOCED is fundable.This page exists because due diligence deserves a straight answer. Here is what YOCED can document, where the gaps are, and what a first engagement would sensibly look like.Funders
- 05We are a group, and we want to work with YOCED.Farming groups, women's groups, savings groups, youth groups and cooperatives are the structures YOCED works through most effectively — because they already carry the trust and the organisation that a program otherwise has to build from nothing.Communities
Twelve fields, one organisation, and a direct route into each.
Every field below has its own page, its own partnership models and its own URL — built to be sent to a colleague on its own without dragging the rest of YOCED along with it.
12 of 12 fields shown.
- F-01Job CreationWork that exists because someone built the enterprise behind it.
- F-02Business Development & BPMTurning an idea into an operation that can be run by someone other than its founder.
- F-03Capital & Rotational FundingA funding model built to keep moving instead of being spent once.
- F-04Skills & EducationTraining aimed at a specific opportunity, not at a certificate.
- F-05Financial Literacy & Money MasteryThe money habits that decide whether income becomes anything.
- F-06Intellectual PropertyOwning what you made, and being able to earn from it.
- F-07Agriculture & Food SystemsFarming treated as a business, from land preparation to the jar on the shelf.
- F-08Climate Action & ResilienceClimate work that pays its way, because otherwise it does not last.
- F-09Health & WellbeingRemoving the health barriers that quietly end economic participation.
- F-10Women & Community EmpowermentEconomic agency, safety and inclusion — as one connected problem.
- F-11Youth & Creative RightsYoung and creative work, on fair terms.
- F-12Technology & Digital TransformationTechnology as infrastructure for the rest of the work — not as a separate project.
Broad is not the same as blurry. Employment, land, money, health and rights fail together — so we stopped pretending they could be fixed separately.
Four clusters.
The fields are grouped by the problem they solve, not by the department that runs them. Most real work crosses at least two.
Building businesses that can employ people and outlive a grant cycle.
The skills, money sense and legal ownership that make opportunity stick.
Production, resilience and wellbeing in the places people actually live.
Who gets to participate, on what terms, and with what protection.
This is the work, as it actually looks.
Every photograph on this site is from YOCED project work. Captions describe what is in the frame and nothing more — there are no outcome claims attached to any of them.
The archive runs from land preparation through planting, weeding and harvest to drying, sorting and a jar on a shelf.
Open the full archiveBusinesses, not case studies.
Six active ventures across furniture, food, apparel, film and craft — each one a live test of whether the enterprise model actually holds.
- Casa FurnishingsFurniture & interiorsFurniture and interior finishing for homes and workspaces.
- Sweet & FancyFood & confectioneryConfectionery and prepared food for events and everyday orders.
- Slice & IceFood & beverageFast-service food and beverage.
- Fashion & DesignApparel & designApparel design and production.
- FilmFilm & media productionFilm and media production.
- Crafted AfricaCraft & designCraft production and design for local and export markets.
Organisations in the YOCED network.
Shown as network, not as endorsement. Nothing here states that an organisation currently funds YOCED.
Tell us which field, and we will route it from there.
Program inquiry, partnership, funding, youth support, corporate collaboration, media or technology — the form routes each one to the right part of YOCED.