Applications Open · CDEGA Level 4 · Cohort Enrollment
Your hustle already qualifies.
We're building the credential, the hub, and the pathway around it.
Growth Circles TechForHer is enrolling Community Digital Economy Growth Circles Entrepreneurs — young Kenyans whose lived experience running businesses, community groups, and local initiatives becomes the foundation for a recognised qualification and a Community Digital Hub to operate.
- ✓ Have your business, hustle, or community leadership experience documented and credentialed as prior learning
- ✓ Complete structured CDEGA Level 4 training in digital-economy pedagogy and community hub operations
- ✓ Be staged for placement in a Financed or Grant-supported Community Digital Hub equipped for CBC practical learning
- ✓ Open a documented pathway into KNQA Level 5B/6B and further study or career progression
Kenya's Competency-Based Curriculum asks learners to demonstrate competence, not just recall it. Community Digital Hubs are where that demonstration happens outside the classroom walls — physical, equipped, credentialed spaces, run day to day by entrepreneurs who already understand their own communities better than any outside operator could. CDEGA Level 4 is how that understanding becomes a qualification.
What You'll Be Equipped To Run
The Community Digital Hub, laid out
Every hub is built to the same specification — offline-first, low-cost-device compatible, and designed around CBC practical delivery by day and community access by night. As a CDEGA Level 4 graduate, this is the space you're being trained to operate.
Inside The Hub
One space, four ways it comes alive
The equipment laid out above is fixed. How a hub is used through the week is not. Every Community Digital Hub is configured across four recurring categories of use, depending on who is in the room and what they've come to build.
Qualification-Facing & STEM Learning
Designed for formal technical progression, this setup converts structural space into a highly disciplined, equipment-heavy learning zone for youth.
Grassroots Literacy & Female Cognitive Inclusion
Engineered to reduce socio-cognitive entry barriers, this environment relies on welcoming, low-pressure interior geography to facilitate peer learning.
School Integration & Teacher Professional Development
A structured professional workspace tailored for adult educators upgrading their localised instruction methodology.
Community Hackathons & Micro-Enterprise Prototyping
An agile, industrial maker-space that prioritises speed, visible data flows, and rapid cross-functional solution building.
How It Works
From lived experience to credentialed pathway
Enrollment is the first of five staged points between what you already know how to do and a recognised qualification you can build a career on.
Apply & lived-experience review
Submit your application. Your business, hustle, or community-leadership experience is documented as evidence of prior learning.
CDEGA Level 4 enrollment
Structured, facilitated training in Socratic AI-delivered digital-economy pedagogy and community hub operations.
Credentialing gate
A formal KNQA-aligned assessment combines your training with your documented lived experience into a recognised Level 4 qualification.
Hub deployment
Graduates are staged on the deployment roster for a Financed or Grant-supported Community Digital Hub as site funding is confirmed.
Progression
The pathway stays open — toward KNQA Level 5A/6A credentials, further study, or a career built on what you've now formally proven.
Before You Apply
Who this is for
You should apply if —
- ✓You are aged 18–35 and live in or near the community where a hub could operate
- ✓You run, or have run, a small business, mtaa enterprise, youth group, or community initiative — formal or informal
- ✓You have basic digital literacy — comfortable using a smartphone is enough
- ✓You're willing to complete structured CDEGA Level 4 training and, later, to operate a hub under GCT's community governance model
- ✓You have — or can get — an endorsement from a local school, chief's office, CBO, or existing GCT partner site (this strengthens your application but is not required)
What you'll need on hand
- →A copy of your National ID
- →A short written or recorded account of your business or community experience
- →Your current contact details — phone number is enough; email if you have one
- →A reference contact, if available (community leader, teacher, or CBO official)
No prior formal ICT qualification is required. Applicants with existing certificates or diplomas are welcome — prior qualifications simply support the lived-experience review at Stage 1.
What You Gain
More than a certificate
A credential built on what you already do
A KNQA-aligned Level 4 qualification that formally recognises training alongside real, lived business and community experience.
Priority hub staging
Graduates are placed on GCT's deployment roster for Financed or Grant-supported Community Digital Hub placement as site funding is confirmed.
A standing support network
Access to GCT's TrainerZuri continuous professional development track and a mentorship network of Instructions Architects and Engineers.
A pathway that doesn't stop at Level 4
A documented route into KNQA Level 5A/6A credentials and further study or career progression, inside a national co-build ecosystem now in active dialogue with KICD and connectivity and financial partners.
Enrollment Application
Apply for CDEGA Level 4 enrollment
Fields marked with an asterisk are required. This is the first step in Stage 1 — your lived-experience review. There is no cost to submit an application.
Application received
Thank you — your CDEGA Level 4 application has been logged for lived-experience review. Our team will reach you on the phone number provided with next steps for Stage 1.
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