What we can evidence, and what we cannot.
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.
Concretely, this.
- 01Fund a defined fieldTwelve program areas, each with its own scope, communities and partnership models. Funding can be restricted to one.
- 02Fund a rotational poolCapital directed at viable youth ventures, structured to return value into the pool. Governance and reporting agreed up front.
- 03Fund an enterprise cohortA defined group of ventures through a full business development cycle, with the operational outputs as deliverables.
- 04Fund measurementBuilding the data layer that makes future reporting evidential rather than estimated.
What is documented
Active field operations, photographed: land preparation, mechanisation, planting, weeding, harvest, drying, sorting, and processing into a packaged product.
Six active ventures across furniture, food, apparel, film and craft.
A defined model in each of twelve program areas, with stated partnership routes.
Working relationships with the organisations listed on the partners page.
What is not claimed
This site publishes no beneficiary counts, funding totals, employment figures, completion rates or percentage improvements — because none have been independently verified.
The organisations on the partners page are shown as part of YOCED's network. None is presented as a current funder, and no endorsement is implied by their presence.
Historical outreach to development organisations is not treated as partnership. Contact is not a commitment, and this site does not present it as one.
A sensible first engagement
A restricted, single-field grant with a defined scope and a measurement component built into it. That produces evidence rather than assertions, and it gives both sides something real to assess before anything larger.
For capital rather than grant funding, a small first rotational pool in one sector, with the governance documented from the start.
What makes the first message useful.
- Your mandate and any geographic restriction
- Reporting standards and due diligence requirements
- Whether you fund grants, capital, technical assistance or all three
- Your timeline, including your board cycle
Start from the field, not from YOCED.
All twelve fields carry their own partnership models and their own shareable page. Filter the atlas by cluster to find the ones that match your mandate.
Open the atlasRequest a funding conversation.
The inquiry form routes by topic, so this reaches the right part of YOCED without going through a general inbox first.
The other four routes.
- 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
- 04We 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