COGHEP works with communities to improve lives—through better health, gender equality, clean environments, and skills to earn a living.
COGHEP, in partnership with Brighter Monday and funded by the Mastercard Foundation, is proud to be implementing the Gen Kazi Project in Taita Taveta and Kwale Counties as a mobilizing partner. The project equips young people with soft skills and connects them to job opportunities.
Meanwhile in Mombasa, we’ve successfully graduated Cohort 8 of our Digital, Life & Soft Skills training and are now rolling out Cohort 9 🎓💻. Youth are gaining the tools they need to thrive in today’s job market, and many are already being linked to meaningful employability opportunities.
At COGHEP, we remain committed to building skilled, resilient, and economically empowered communities. 🌍✨
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Youth empowerment: “VIJANA TUOMOKE” program:
Trained hundreds of youth on digital, Soft and entrepreneurship skills in collaboration with like-minded players including and not limited to Ajira digital program and linked them to employability opportunities and formed groups of influence (GOI’S) for continued mentorship across coastal counties.
Genkazi project partnership ongoing and currently training COHORT 9 of the in the Mombasa partnership initiative.
A STEM program reached hundreds of female youth in Kilifi, Kwale and Mombasa counties.
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND BLUE ECONOMY
Launched a campaign to restore Taita Hills water towers and mangroves conservation in the coastal counties. Partnered with private companies for waste separation, collection and Recycling in Nairobi and Taita-Taveta counties.
GENDER AND INCLUSION
Our commitment to gender equity is built on the fundamental principles of non-discrimination and inclusion. We believe everyone, regardless of their background or identity, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Unfair exclusion from essential services and community life is a significant concern that we actively work to address.
Supporting households’ survivors of violence through “LIVES” first-line support and continued case management as remedial support (Legal, Psychosocial support and recovery)
To address the plight of the youth, unemployment and skills gap, COGHEP has partnered with BrighterMonday Kenya as a mobilizing partner to bring together groups of young people in cohorts of 200-300 together to be trained in employability skills training and subsequently be linked with mainstream employability opportunities through partnerships and networks involving both the public and private sectors.
COGHEP's role in the project is to mobilize at least 5,000 youth (with a focus on 70% female and 10% PWD) across Kwale and Taita Taveta counties to enroll in demand-driven skills training and job placement programs under the GenKazi initiative.
In Mombasa, COGHEP and partners have been equipping youth with digital and employability skills. We are currently implementing Cohort 9, after successfully graduating Cohort 1-8, and linking trained youth to meaningful employment opportunities. COGHEP is building I-hubs as a way of creating jobs for young people in partnership with Ajira digital COGHEP aims at initiating I-hubs in partnership with county governments so as to ensure you have access to computer and are accessing virtual opportunities for employment and content creation as a way to utilize skills and create/access opportunities.
