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Kenya | Uganda | Tanzania | Rwanda | Somalia | Ethiopia | South Sudan | DRC

Build capacity where it matters, with a partner who knows the terrain.

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Urge Communications has spent 18+ years inside East Africa's development sector — communicating for it, advocating for it, and planning for it, and now reporting for it and training the people who run it. Urge Skill-Up is how we turn that experience into scalable, co-delivered capacity-building for the communities your programming is designed to reach.

We design and deliver training built around your programme, your sector, and your reporting requirements, from a single cohort to a multi-country rollout.


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What partnering with us looks like

We co-design: Every program starts from your programme's actual objectives and the population it needs to reach, not a fixed course catalogue.

We co-deliver: In-person where your communities need it, hybrid or online where that serves them better, we match the delivery model to the audience, not the other way round.

We co-report: Every program comes with built-in M&E indicators aligned to donor reporting needs, attendance, skills assessment, and follow-up outcome tracking, ready to feed into your own results framework.

We co-brand: Certificates, materials, and programme visibility can carry your organization's branding alongside Urge Skill-Up's, as your partnership requires.

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Programs available for partnership

  • Climate-Smart Agriculture Digital Skills

    Smallholder farmers and agricultural cooperatives

  • Youth Digital & AI Skills Bootcamp

    Unemployed and underemployed youth, TVET graduates

  • Women in Digital Trade & E-Commerce

    Women-led MSMEs and informal traders

  • Media Literacy & Disinformation Resilience

    Journalists, civic educators, community leaders

  • Climate-Smart Agriculture Digital Skills

    Smallholder farmers and agricultural cooperatives

  • Financial Literacy & Digital Finance

    Informal-sector workers, gig workers, chama/table-banking groups

  • SACCO Digital Growth Academy

    SACCO boards, management, staff, and members

  • Digital Tools for Community Health Workers

    CHWs and community health volunteers

Each program is fully scoped curriculum, timeline, delivery model, and indicative pricing are ready for review, and every one of them can be adapted to your programe's geography, language needs within the region, and existing beneficiary structures.

Let's talk about your programme

Tell us about the community you're trying to reach, and we'll come back with a scoped proposal — cohort size, timeline, delivery model, and cost. If you already have a specific programe in mind, mention it and we'll come prepared

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