The Greening Business Initiative
Evidence Generation and Learning
The goal of the ‘Green Businesses: Creating Opportunity for Young People and Women In Rural Kenya’ project is to ensure green skills of women and youth are promoted and that poverty and hunger are reduced in rural areas of Kakamega, Makueni, and Kajiado in Kenya.
Process and Objective
Toward this goal, the project combines complementary strategic approaches which include:
Support the strengthening of curricula for selected private training facilities for Green Skills especially in courses such as post-harvest loss reduction, nutrition and food security, and value addition. The training also includes financial literacy, social life skills, and group dynamics.
Enhanced training that covers financial literacy and business management for the employees of the identified training facilities to be able to pass on the corresponding competencies to young people and women during their education.
Mapping all successful local agripreneurs/ practitioners as mentors to support the training and establishment of youth- and women-led green businesses.
Connect with experienced local agripreneurs/ practitioners to engage them to train apprentices in their green businesses.
The project’s strategy is expected to culminate in improved livelihoods for women and young people in three counties in Kenya with four intermediate outputs:
Output 1:
The role of TVET Institutions in green skills development is enhanced.
Output 2:
Youth and women receive a green education and find green (self-) employment after completion.
Output 3:
The vocational training offer in green competences is known and appreciated by a broad public.
Output 4:
The capabilities and capacities of the partner organizations (Zizi Afrique and ADS) are enhanced and professionalized.
Outcome
1,500 women and young people in Kakamega, Makueni and Kajiado County acquire technical, economic, and life skills.
This project is being implemented by Latia Agribusiness Solutions, Bukura Agricultural College, and Makueni Agriculture College.