A professionally governed initiative deploying structured youth employment and performance-linked housing solutions across Kenya's county governments.
"YHEE exists to prove that Kenya's youth do not need another programme designed for them — they need a mechanism that treats them as economic actors with something to contribute."
YHEE is not a programme. It is a structured deployment mechanism — a self-reinforcing loop that converts youth potential into verifiable income, income into housing eligibility, and housing eligibility into a capital-attracting pipeline.
YHEE is built on four interlocking strategic pillars — each independently valuable, each more powerful in combination.
The YHEE platform operates through three purpose-specific Special Purpose Vehicles — each with a distinct function, governance structure, and capital interface, designed collectively for institutional-grade investment and DFI engagement.
Engaged in preliminary discussions as part of the YHEE pre-formation process. Relationships subject to formal documentation.
The pilot runs independently of county approval — building the evidence base that makes every subsequent conversation with the county, with DFIs, and with investors fundamentally different in character.
We are not seeking passive capital. We are seeking founding partners who share the conviction that structured execution — not a big idea — builds a platform capable of transforming youth economic participation across Kenya.
YHEE was built on a single conviction: Kenya's youth do not need another programme designed for them — they need a structure that treats them as economic actors with something genuine to contribute.
YHEE's mission is to deploy Kenya's youth into structured, productive economic roles — generating verifiable income, validated work discipline, and a performance-based pathway to affordable housing — while simultaneously strengthening county government capacity and attracting institutional capital at scale.
The platform integrates three previously disconnected systems: the supply of employable youth, the need of county governments for operational capacity, and the demand of capital markets for structured, de-risked impact investment. YHEE is the mechanism that connects all three.
YHEE's long-term vision is a Kenya in which every county government operates with a structured youth deployment infrastructure — a permanently available, professionally managed human capital layer that improves public service delivery, generates its own revenue, and provides a sustainable housing pathway for participants.
Kenya's youth unemployment rate masks a more complex structural failure. The problem is not that youth lack skills or ambition. The problem is the absence of a mechanism — a structured interface between youth labour supply, county government demand, and the capital markets that could fund the connection at scale.
County governments consistently underperform their Own Source Revenue targets — not because the revenue base does not exist, but because they lack the field capacity to collect it. Youth are the natural answer to this gap. The mechanism to deploy them, pay them, and document their performance has not previously existed.
The housing deficit exceeds two million units in urban Kenya. The real bottleneck is not construction — it is that without a verifiable income structure, no financial institution can underwrite a product for the majority of youth. YHEE builds that income structure first.
YHEE is designed from formation to meet the governance standards required for DFI engagement, county government partnership, and institutional investor participation. Every structure, document, and process is built for auditability from Day 1.
Felix is an infrastructure financing originator and senior SAP consultant with deep experience in blended-finance structuring, project development, and institutional investor engagement across Kenya and anglophone Africa. His background spans DFI-facing infrastructure advisory, sovereign and county-government-anchored transaction origination, and the production of institutional-grade documentation across legal, financial, and policy domains.
His SAP IS-Oil background provides a distinctive operational integration capability in infrastructure advisory mandates. YHEE draws on his unique convergence of institutional finance origination, ground-level execution discipline, and African public-sector engagement experience.
A three-SPV platform structure, two integrated pathways, and an investment-grade capital stack — designed for county government anchor partnerships and DFI participation at scale.
Income comes before housing. This sequencing is deliberate and critical. YHEE does not build housing and hope people can pay — it builds income first, verifies that it works, and then offers housing to those who have proved they can sustain it.
The YHEE capital stack is structured to meet DFI participation standards — combining senior debt, mezzanine/DFI capital, and equity in a layered structure with multiple credit enhancement mechanisms.
County governments are anchor partners — not programme gatekeepers. YHEE's county strategy is sequenced to build demonstrated value before formalising the relationship.
Every YHEE programme component is designed around a single operating principle: if it cannot be measured, it cannot be managed. If it cannot be managed, it will not scale.
YHEE's monitoring and evaluation framework tracks performance at individual, team, programme, and platform levels — producing a fully auditable record from Day 1 of operations.
| Metric | Target | Frequency | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance Rate | Per participant | Daily | ? 80% |
| Output vs KRA | Per role | Daily | 100% |
| Data Accuracy | Platform-wide | Daily | ? 95% |
| Youth Retention | Cohort | Weekly | ? 85% |
| Stipend Payment Rate | Platform-wide | Monthly | 100% |
| Housing Eligibility Rate | Cohort (Day 30) | Monthly | ? 60% |
| Cost per Participant | Programme | Monthly | ? over time |
| Cost per Data Record | Programme | Monthly | ? KES 50 |
YHEE creates value for all partners — not through philanthropy, but through structural alignment of interests. Every partnership is designed so that the partner's success and YHEE's success are the same outcome.
We are not presenting a concept note. We are presenting an execution-oriented, evidence-gated platform with a DFI-grade capital structure — and an invitation to be at the founding table.
| Return Metric | Basis | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Equity IRR | Full Platform | 20–22% |
| MOIC | Equity Tranche | 2.5× |
| Senior Debt Rate | Fixed | 11.0% |
| Mezzanine / DFI Rate | Blended | 12.5% |
| KMRC Conversion | Year 5 milestone | Full portfolio |
| Addressable Counties | Kenya national | 47 |
| Youth at Full Scale | Per county | 2,000+ |
| Pilot Entry Investment | KES 400,000 | |
Note: Return targets are projections based on the full platform at scale. The micro-pilot does not generate a financial return. Returns are contingent on successful execution across all phases. This does not constitute a financial offer or solicitation.
YHEE does not minimise the presentation of risk. The platform is designed to surface risk early — at the micro-pilot stage, at KES 400,000 — rather than discover it late, at scale, at millions of shillings.
The YHEE investor data room is structured to meet institutional due diligence standards. Access is provided under NDA following an initial introductory call.
YHEE does not report on intended impact. It reports on documented, auditable outcomes — because anything that cannot be verified cannot be trusted.
YHEE's impact framework directly addresses six Sustainable Development Goals — with measurable, auditable contributions to each.
Whether you represent an institutional investor, a county government, a DFI, or a technical partner — every conversation that builds YHEE starts with a single message.
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YHEE Employment SPV, YHEE Housing SPV, and YHEE Cash Flow SPV are in formation as at May 2026. No SPV has been formally constituted. No securities have been issued. No regulated financial products are being offered. All descriptions of the YHEE platform, capital structure, and investment returns are indicative projections based on the Founder's assumptions and modelling as at the date of this website.
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