Ideas are cheap. Operations are what last.
YOCED builds the layer underneath youth opportunity in Kenya — enterprises, field operations, skills and funding routes that turn capability into income that survives the season. We also help partners turn ideas into locally grounded creative, technology and pilot work.
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 thirteen 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
Global ideas. African context. Real execution.
Bring the idea — early, half-formed or ready to move. YOCED helps partners understand what it needs to become here, then makes the next useful piece with them.
Creative & cultural
Music, film, performance, storytelling, creator programmes, cultural projects, events and creative workshops — shaped with the people and context they are for.
Technology & applied AI
Web and mobile products, AI systems, automation, data layers, prototypes and technical architecture — from the first working version to the systems behind it.
Africa execution & partnerships
Local discovery, relationship-building, workshops, participant recruitment, user testing, pilots and practical delivery — the work that makes an idea real here.
Start where the work is.
- 01ExploreStart with the objective, the local context and the questions that still need answering.
- 02ShapeTurn insight into a useful direction through research, workshops, creative direction and technical scoping.
- 03PilotTest the smallest honest version: a prototype, programme, activation, MVP or limited-market experiment.
- 04BuildMake the thing: software, AI, creative production, operational systems or programme delivery.
- 05Learn & scaleListen to what the work shows, gather feedback and decide what earns the next stage.
There is no fixed package to buy. The route adapts to the question, the place and what a partnership is trying to prove.
Bring us an ideaThirteen 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.
13 of 13 fields shown.
- F-01CreativesThe creative sector treated as an industry — with a business, a contract and a gate receipt behind it.
- F-02Agriculture & Food SecurityFarming treated as a business, from land preparation to the jar on the shelf.
- F-03Business Development & BPMTurning an idea into an operation that can be run by someone other than its founder.
- F-04Job CreationWork that exists because someone built the enterprise behind it.
- F-05Capital & Rotational FundingA funding model built to keep moving instead of being spent once.
- F-06Skills & EducationTraining aimed at a specific opportunity, not at a certificate.
- F-07Financial Literacy & Money MasteryThe money habits that decide whether income becomes anything.
- F-08Intellectual PropertyOwning what you made, and being able to earn from it.
- F-09Climate Action & ResilienceClimate work that pays its way, because otherwise it does not last.
- F-10Health & WellbeingRemoving the health barriers that quietly end economic participation.
- F-11Women & Community EmpowermentEconomic agency, safety and inclusion — as one connected problem.
- F-12Technology & Digital TransformationTechnology as infrastructure for the rest of the work — not as a separate project.
- F-13Refugee Sustainability & Economic SolutionsEconomic participation for displaced people, built to outlast the aid that brought them.
Broad is not the same as blurry. Employment, land, money, health and rights fail together — so we stopped pretending they could be fixed separately.
One formalised artist anchors a micro-economy.
Registration, an intellectual property position and a set of books are what turn a practice into something that can be lent to, contracted with and exported. That is the whole mechanism, and it scales.
How YOCED works — the infrastructure, the multiplier and the export case
Development is decided in rooms as often as in fields.
YOCED attended the National Productivity and Performance Conference 2026 at the Kenya School of Government, Lower Kabete, with its Founder accredited as a delegate. Presence is what that evidences — and presence is worth showing, because it is where scope, access and delivery get agreed.
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.
The creative sector, field production, institutional presence and the partner network. Captions describe what is in the frame and nothing more, and anything YOCED did not photograph carries its source.
Four chapters: the creative sector, on stage and behind it; the season, from land preparation to a jar on a shelf; the rooms YOCED has been present in; and the sites and organisations it works alongside.
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.