The Greening Kenya Initiative Project

The United Nations Development Programme in Kenya (UNDP Kenya) was implementing the Green Economy Youth Activation Programme (GrEYAP) whose main objective is to harness the engagement of the youth in the green economy in line with the National Youth Development Policy and mobilize and build capacity of youth to establish and strengthen viable business and entrepreneurship models in the forestry and agroforestry value chains thereby create employment and sustainable livelihoods.

I together with another team were tasked with documenting and gathering the narratives of 80 Youth Champions in 21 Counties namely: Kwale, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Kiambu, Nyandarua, Embu, Kirinyaga, Machakos, Makueni, Laikipia, Kericho, Kisii, Bungoma, Migori, Homa Bay, Kisumu, Garissa, Elgeyo Marakwet, Nandi, Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu.

We first prepared a questionnaire to have an understanding of our champion's projects and build a rapport ahead of the interviews, and a script with questions we were to ask during the interviews.