Bring the idea. Make it real here.
YOCED works with international and local organisations that need African context and practical execution: market exploration, workshops, creative programmes, technical prototypes, pilots and implementation. Start with the question; the relevant field, people and route take shape from there.
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 ideaOrganisations in the YOCED network.
Listed as network rather than endorsement. Nothing on this page states that an organisation currently funds YOCED, and outreach history is not treated as partnership.
Two further logos appeared on YOCED’s previous website but could not be identified with confidence from the surviving material. They have been left out rather than guessed at.
What the network looks like on the ground.
Rooms, sites and organisations. Presence and association are shown as exactly that — neither is a claim of funding or endorsement.
Start with the field, not the bureaucracy.
Every field lists the specific ways an organisation can work on it — funding, technical capacity, market access, delivery or all four.
- F-01CreativesVenue and platform partnership · Event sponsorship · Heritage documentation · Industry partnership
- F-03Business Development & BPMEnterprise support cohorts · Corporate supply chain · Technical partnership
- F-04Job CreationEmployer pipeline · Enterprise co-investment · Programme delivery
- F-05Capital & Rotational FundingCapital partner · Sector-restricted pool · Technical and legal partner
- F-06Skills & EducationCurriculum and delivery partner · Training sponsorship · Institutional link
- F-07Financial Literacy & Money MasteryFinancial institution partnership · Programme sponsorship · Content partnership
- F-08Intellectual PropertyLegal partnership · Rights education · Sector programme
- F-02Agriculture & Food SecurityValue chain partnership · Mechanisation access · Offtake and market · Technical partnership
- F-09Climate Action & ResilienceClimate-linked agriculture · Renewable energy partnership · Circular economy initiative · Research and measurement
- F-10Health & WellbeingHealth provider partnership · Menstrual health programme · Nutrition initiative
- F-11Women & Community EmpowermentWomen's economic empowerment · Girls' education and menstrual health · Protection and support services · Disability inclusion
- F-12Technology & Digital TransformationTechnology partnership · Digital inclusion · Data and measurement
- F-13Refugee Sustainability & Economic SolutionsHumanitarian and development partnership · Legal partnership · Enterprise funding
SelfAwareTech
SelfAwareTech is YOCED’s technology partner, bringing product engineering and digital systems capability into the work.
Together, the partnership can pair local insight, creative delivery and practical implementation with the web, mobile and AI product work a collaboration needs. SelfAwareTech remains an independent company with a focused role in that work.
Voices carried forward.
Recovered verbatim from YOCED’s earlier published profile. These are perspectives from the archive, not statements of current funding.
“We live at a time where technology and innovation is moving on an unbelievable pace. We need to support the young minds of the world and encourage their curious selves to keep on changing the world and make it a place we would love to call home”
Dovies Ebbiey · Entrepreneur
“I am a youth project enthusiast and keep at the pioneering front of technology advancement. My goal is to have equity and equality of youths to all growth opportunities. I have partnered with international entities to bring forth Employment & Empowerment opportunities, future technologies and their implementation in the African continent.”
Nzisa Matulu · Journalist
“Africa has the youngest population in the world, and is expected to grow exceeding all other continents. The economic implications of this will be huge and investors from all around the globe need to take note of this untapped market and be ahead of the curve.”
Fundi Ngundi · Economist & Development Professional Consultant
“I am exited to see where Africa ends up in the next Decade compared to other parts of the world. I help businesses upscale and navigate markets to maximize on profitability.”
Tim Janot · Head Investment and Portfolio Manager
Tell us the field and the mandate. We will do the routing.
13 fields, each with its own partnership route. Name yours in the inquiry form and the conversation starts in the right place.