Young people deserve a voice, opportunity and a role in shaping their future.
KYTI brings young people and communities together to discuss shared challenges, strengthen civic participation, develop leadership, and explore pathways to economic empowerment.
Our work is grounded in sustained engagement: listening to young people, building connections through community structures, and turning dialogue into practical opportunities for participation and development.
Community dialogue and youth engagement are central to KYTI’s approach.
A platform for empowerment, participation and leadership.
The Kenya Youth Transition Initiative (KYTI) is a youth-focused initiative that creates space for young people to identify challenges, exchange ideas, build capacity and engage in community life.
KYTI’s programme materials describe working through youth groups, community-based organisations, sports clubs, boda boda groups and other local structures. Strengthening these connections can help young people organise, share knowledge, participate in civic life and pursue economic opportunities.
Creating pathways for young people to participate and progress.
KYTI’s work connects civic participation with leadership, community relationships and economic empowerment.
Civic education and participation
Encouraging young people to understand civic processes, engage in public conversations, access identity documentation and take part in decisions affecting their communities.
Economic empowerment and capacity building
Promoting skills development, entrepreneurship, mentorship, financial literacy and links to opportunities that can support young people’s livelihoods.
Leadership and accountability
Creating opportunities for youth to discuss leadership, representation, public accountability and their role in shaping community and national development.
Community dialogue and peacebuilding
Bringing young people, elders and community stakeholders into constructive conversations that can strengthen understanding, collaboration and social cohesion.
Start with conversation. Build towards action.
KYTI’s programme document describes a town-hall approach that begins at ward level and can be replicated at sub-county or constituency level before being taken to county level.
The purpose is to give young people space to identify local concerns, discuss possible responses and build structures that can support ongoing engagement.
Listen to young people
Provide a forum to discuss challenges such as unemployment, limited opportunities, cost-of-living pressures and youth representation.
Build local connections
Work with youth groups and community structures to encourage coordination, peer support and participation.
Identify practical opportunities
Connect discussion with capacity building, civic education, economic empowerment and potential partnerships.
Sustain engagement
Carry local priorities into wider conversations and encourage continued collaboration between young people and community stakeholders.
Responding to needs on the ground.
The following reflects the programme information shared by KYTI. Current activities and future plans are identified separately.
HUDUMA MASHINANI
KYTI reports that this ongoing programme in rural Nyanza focuses on access to national ID services, birth certificates and voter registration. Further details and official programme contacts can be added as they are confirmed.
Youth civic engagement
Community forums and civic education provide space for young people to discuss public issues, leadership, accountability, representation and participation.
Youth groups and livelihoods
KYTI’s materials emphasise organised youth groups, entrepreneurship, capacity building and connections to economic opportunities. Specific grants and outcomes should be described with supporting records.
TVET and entrepreneurship
KYTI concept notes propose entrepreneurship skills, mentorship, financial literacy, business incubation and market connections for young people in technical and vocational training.
Dialogue and local structures
KYTI’s documented Homa Bay engagement brought participants together to discuss youth challenges and the role of coordinated youth groups in capacity building, employment and wealth creation.
Peacebuilding for 2027 and beyond
KYTI plans to develop a peacebuilding programme that encourages young people to practise and sustain peace during and beyond Kenya’s 2027 General Election. This initiative is described as planned, not yet launched.
Progress measured through opportunity and participation.
These achievements reflect KYTIโs work to expand civic participation, strengthen youth groups, support livelihoods and open education pathways across the Nyanza region.
New national IDs
New national IDs facilitated across the Nyanza region.
Voter registrations
People who obtained national IDs and subsequently registered as voters.
Youth groups formed
Youth self-help groups formed to strengthen organisation and collective action.
Groups receiving grants
Youth groups that received cash grants of KSh 50,000 per group.
Students joining TVET
Students who joined Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions across Nyanza.
Full TTC scholarships
Students who joined Teacher Training Colleges on full scholarships.
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Making room for youth voices in Homa Bay.
The KYTI programme report documents a youth engagement held on 28 July 2024 at Grenville, Oyugis, involving Kakelo, Kamroth and Kokwanyo wards in Kabondo Kasipul Constituency, Homa Bay County.
The report records 130 participants. Discussions covered youth unemployment, limited productive engagement, economic pressures, accountability, corruption, representation, taxation and the cost of government services. Participants discussed the importance of sustained civic engagement, capacity building and organised youth structures.
Building sustained engagement for the future.
KYTI aims to keep strengthening youth participation, community dialogue, leadership and economic empowerment. A planned peacebuilding programme will focus on encouraging peaceful participation during and beyond the 2027 General Election. As programmes develop, this page can be updated with confirmed activities, partners and results.
Young people are not only part of the future. They are part of the conversation now.
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