Our vision
A leader in powering Africa with skilled, confident, and productive youth.
Skills training in Kenya
Skills training in Kenya that opens real opportunities
Skills training in Kenya should lead somewhere. Founded in 2014, Toolkit helps young people and women build market-relevant skills and move towards employment or entrepreneurship.
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Skills training built around opportunity
Our skills training in Kenya combines practical technical learning with employability, digital, and entrepreneurship skills. We work with public institutions, development partners, and employers so learning remains connected to changing labour markets.
What guides the work
Purpose in practice
Our mission
Transform vulnerable youth towards prosperity through innovation and skills for current and future labour markets.
How we work
Practical training, recognised skills, industry exposure, and pathways into work or enterprise.
A learner-centred approach
How skills training in Kenya becomes practical opportunity
Effective skills training in Kenya needs more than classroom instruction. Learners need clear information before enrolment, guided practice while training and realistic support as they prepare for work or enterprise. Toolkit brings these stages together so that technical ability develops alongside communication, digital participation, problem-solving and workplace awareness.
The process begins with course guidance. Prospective learners can compare the current practical learning pathways and ask admissions about entry requirements, schedules, fees, available funding and assessment arrangements. These details can change between programmes and intakes, so Toolkit confirms them before enrolment rather than relying on outdated general claims.
Practice connected to real settings
Learning activities are designed around application. Depending on the pathway, this can include guided workshop tasks, digital tools, simulation, field activity or enterprise exercises. Trainers help learners understand safe working methods, build technical confidence and reflect on the quality of their work. This approach makes it easier to connect a lesson with the decisions and standards encountered in a practical setting.
Toolkit also uses stories, photographs and video to help prospective learners understand the learning environment before applying. The official Toolkit video collection draws from the institution’s public YouTube channel, while the blog documents programmes, partnerships and learner experiences with dates and context.
Recognition, work readiness and progression
Skills development continues beyond the practical task itself. Where a pathway involves assessment or recognition, learners receive relevant preparation and admissions confirms the applicable examining arrangements. Employability and enterprise learning help participants explain what they can do, understand workplace expectations and consider different routes into income generation.
No training provider can guarantee a job or business outcome. Toolkit’s role is to strengthen capability, improve readiness and connect learning with credible progression routes. Industry exposure, institutional partnerships and job-linkage support can help learners navigate opportunities, but results also depend on the selected pathway, demonstrated competence, labour-market conditions and individual circumstances.
Choosing the right Toolkit pathway
A suitable course should reflect a learner’s goals, current experience, availability and entry profile. Someone building a new technical foundation may need a different route from an experienced artisan seeking recognition of prior learning. Prospective learners should review the course information, check the Toolkit Notice Board and contact admissions when a requirement is unclear.
This combination of accurate guidance, applied learning and progression support defines Toolkit’s approach to skills training in Kenya. It is intended to help young people and women make informed choices, build demonstrable capability and move towards work or enterprise with a clearer understanding of the next step.
From training to livelihoods
A practical skills training journey
Toolkit’s model is designed around the practical steps a learner needs to move forward, from gaining job-relevant competence to demonstrating it and navigating the next opportunity.
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Train
Hands-on technical, digital, employability and enterprise learning.
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Certify
Preparation for skills recognition through relevant assessment bodies.
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Connect
Industry exposure and pathways towards employment or entrepreneurship.
People behind the work
Our Team
Meet the people delivering training, learner support, career development and the day-to-day work of Toolkit.
Founder & Director
Jane Muigai Kamphuis
Jane founded Toolkit in 2014 and leads its mission to connect vulnerable young people and women with skills, certification and pathways to work.
Manager
Hosea Mugera
Hosea supports the day-to-day management of Toolkit and the delivery of its skills and innovation programmes.
HR Manager
Marion Ngige
Marion brings more than eight years of human-resource experience to the people, systems and culture behind Toolkit programmes.
Career Development Manager
Reuben Waburi
Reuben is an electrical engineer and project manager with more than two decades of experience supporting career and technical development.
Youth Skills Manager
Ann Nyokabi
Ann has more than eleven years of experience spanning technical practice, training and learner engagement.
Head of Welding
Daniel Omondi
Daniel brings mechanical-engineering and welding experience to the leadership of Toolkit’s practical welding programmes.
Job Linkage Officer
Silvester Kibet
Silvester supports learners as they prepare for and connect with employment opportunities.
Job Linkage Officer
Muthomi Murage
Muthomi supports digital technology and learner pathways into work.
Trainer
Michael Ndwiga
Michael serves as a welding instructor within Toolkit’s practical training team.
Workshop Assistant
Josephine Kemunto
Josephine supports learners and trainers in the day-to-day operation of Toolkit workshops.
Trainer
Robert Chemitei
Robert is an ICT practitioner and trainer who supports practical technology learning.
Accountant
Doreen Kiriinya
Doreen supports Toolkit’s financial operations and programme accountability.
Logistics Officer
Phylis Kibet
Phylis coordinates transport and logistics that support Toolkit activities.
Customer Service Associate
Lucy Muthoni
Lucy supports front-desk services and assists learners, visitors and customers.Find the right learning pathway
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