Dovies Ebbiey
Sets YOCED's direction and carries relationships with communities, partner organisations and the groups YOCED works through. Leads on programs, partnerships, field work and YOCED's creative and cultural direction.
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 13 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. Thirteen 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, thirteen 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 leads, one operating system.
Roles and remits — what each position is accountable for, and the fields it leads on.
Stefan Juma
A Full-Stack & Applied AI Software Engineer, Stefan leads YOCED's product engineering, AI systems, technical strategy and implementation — from prototypes and digital platforms to the operational tooling behind ventures and field programs.
Technical work through SelfAwareTechPeople to know
A practice, in full.
Individual profiles make the people and specialised work around YOCED easier to find, understand and share.
Technology Partner
SelfAwareTech
SelfAwareTech is YOCED’s technology partner, bringing product engineering and digital systems capability into the work.
Get in touch
Contact YOCED Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Working wherever the field work is.
yoced.ke@gmail.com · +254 740 334262