Dovies Ebbiey
Sets YOCED's direction and carries the organisation's relationships — with communities, partner organisations and the groups YOCED works through. Leads on programs, partnerships and the field work.
An ecosystem, not a programme.
YOCED exists to help young people, creatives and communities move from capability to income — through enterprises that operate, work that pays, skills attached to real opportunity, and funding that keeps moving.
What YOCED is
Youth Corporate and Economic Development.
YOCED works at the point where young people, entrepreneurs, creatives, businesses and communities try to convert what they can do into something that pays. That conversion is where most development effort is lost, and it is almost never a question of ambition.
The organisation’s roots are in Business Process Management and Business Process Outsourcing — disciplines concerned with how work is actually structured, costed and made repeatable. Applied to youth enterprise, that background is unusual, and it is the reason YOCED’s programs tend to produce something operable rather than something described.
Today that runs across 12 active fields and 6 active ventures, from land preparation and groundnut processing to furniture, film and craft.
Four things that decide everything else.
- 01Operations before ideasA venture becomes real when its work is written down, costed and repeatable. That discipline comes from Business Process Management, and it is the through-line of everything YOCED does.
- 02Breadth on purposeEmployment, land, money, health and rights fail together. Twelve fields is not scope creep — it is an admission that these problems do not occur separately.
- 03Structure over slogansBreadth is only a problem when it is disorganised. Every field has its own page, its own communities and its own route in, so nobody has to navigate YOCED to reach the part that concerns them.
- 04Only what we can evidenceThis site publishes no beneficiary counts, funding totals or success rates, because none have been independently verified. It publishes the work instead.
Structure
How the organisation is arranged.
Four clusters, twelve fields, six ventures, and a set of routes designed around who is arriving rather than around the org chart.
- ENTEnterprise & CapitalBuilding businesses that can employ people and outlive a grant cycle.
- CAPCapability & OwnershipThe skills, money sense and legal ownership that make opportunity stick.
- LANLand, Food & ClimateProduction, resilience and wellbeing in the places people actually live.
- COMCommunity, Rights & AccessWho gets to participate, on what terms, and with what protection.
Leadership
Two people, two remits.
Roles rather than biographies. What each position is responsible for is established; career histories were not available and are not invented here.
Stefan Juma
Leads YOCED's technology and systems work — the platform, the operational tooling behind ventures and field programs, and the data layer that lets YOCED report on its work honestly.
Technology Partner
SelfAwareTech
SelfAwareTech is an independent technology company. It builds and maintains YOCED's digital platform as a partner, not as part of the organisation.
Get in touch
Contact YOCED Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Working wherever the field work is.
yoced.ke@gmail.com · +254 726 647052