Handbooks, Workshops, and Sectors
This is the hub for everything Shirikiana offers directly — the handbooks you can buy today, the workshops and freelancer network already running, and the sector value chains we work across.
Training, delivered where teaching already happens
We do not run parallel training programmes. We design the curriculum, arrange the practical businesses that turn it into experience, and connect graduates to the network they will trade in. The teaching itself takes place inside partner institutions — schools, TVET centres, church and community organisations — which keep their students, their reputation and their income.
What participants gain is not a certificate and a job search. It is a running business, a registered cooperative, and a network that stays behind them afterwards.
Sectors & Value Chains
We work across six value chains where organising fragmented producers unlocks real bargaining power. Short teasers here — full depth lives in the upcoming Job Creation Opportunities handbook.
Livestock & Arid Lands (ASAL)
From grazing land through feedlots to processing and consumer markets. Roles: herd record-keeping, feedlot management, veterinary support, market liaison.
Arts & Crafts
Organised artisans can capture a real share of a growing global market for home decor, clothing and cultural craft goods. Roles: product design, quality control, digital marketing.
Textiles & Apparel
From raw fibre and ginning through manufacturing and design to retail. Roles: pattern cutting, garment assembly, quality assurance, e-commerce support.
Health Care Cooperatives
Health workers can create jobs by forming, investing in and operating their own cooperatives. Roles: community health work, cooperative administration, service logistics.
Mining & Diaspora Partnerships
Artisanal mining cooperatives can access technology and capital through structured diaspora partnerships. Roles: site coordination, safety compliance, investor liaison.
Input Supply & Cold Storage
Agro-service centres, soil testing, mechanisation and cold storage — the unglamorous infrastructure that makes every other sector viable.
Smart Life, Smart Earn
The freelancer always keeps their own client — we never compete for it. Follow-on work a freelancer can’t take is passed to trusted partners in the consortium network, not absorbed by us.
1–3 Days
Typical session length, depending on scope
Fortnightly
Short introductory workshops, open to newcomers
Topics
AI tools · CV & applications · content creation · digital income
Practical AI skills for everyday life. Participants learn directly on their own smartphones using real-life examples and guided exercises — designed for people with little or no prior digital experience. The goal is not quick promises, but long-term confidence and practical understanding.
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Take a Workshop
Smart Life, Smart Earn or Startup Sprint — hands-on from day one.
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Serve a Real Client
Under our guidance, on a genuine job — not a simulation.
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Get Back-Office Support
We handle bookkeeping, invoicing, and step in when a job gets complex.
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Grow
Your career, your client base, or your role in a cooperative.
The ten areas we work in
What a partner, county or funder can commission from the consortium. Each area is delivered together with the institutions already working in that field.
Project ideas and concept development
Baseline surveys
Partnerships, investment promotion and market linkages
Project design, development and funding connectivity
Education, training and publicity
Curriculum and content development, training and follow-up
360° technical assistance and management advisory services
Product and service aggregation, marketing and reward systems
Performance review, monitoring, evaluation and control mechanisms
Climate modelling and de-risking mechanisms
Handbooks
Two published books on values-based cooperatives — including an ISBN-registered first edition.
The Power of Values-Based Cooperatives for Workers
First Edition · ISBN 978-9914-743-17-3
Easily understandable, ready-to-use training content to help your neighbour, church group, youth group, or self-help group participate effectively in cooperative business. By Amb. Bramwel W. Kisuya.
Youth Inclusion Strategies for Cooperatives
A strategic guide highlighting the pathways for young men and women to become active members, directors, and workers in primary cooperatives, unions, collaboratively working with County Aggregation and Industrial Parks for job creation.
Job Creation Opportunities
A third, more technical handbook — covering value chains from livestock to textiles to mining, investment structures, and university partnerships. Chapters are being finalised; short previews of several sections already appear across this site.
How to Order
Choose your handbook
Both titles are available today.
Pay by M-PESA or bank
M-PESA Till/Paybill 100400, No. 6057580. Bank: Housing Finance Bank, Rehani Branch — Delroca Springs Limited, Acc. 9783730818, Swift HFCOKENA.
Receive your download
After payment confirmation you get a download link by email.
More than 400 copies of the first handbook are already in circulation.
A Permaculture Programme with Universities
A permaculture programme designed to run on university-linked land, pairing agricultural research with vocational training so that the science produces skills and jobs, not only papers.
We are assembling it now: agricultural land partners in Germany, and delivery and training partners in Kenya.
University partners bring research capacity and identify emerging technologies cooperatives can adopt.
Training runs alongside the research, so the science produces skills and jobs, not just papers.
We bring land, funding and academic partners together and do the majority of the grant work.
Where it stands: no agreement is in place yet. We are in conversation with universities in Kenya and in Germany, and with landowners. We will name partners here only once they have agreed to be named.
Ready to Build the Future?
The same shape — train, serve a first real client, then ongoing back-office support — is the template for every workshop we run next, including further AI and media skills tracks.
Shirikiana —> to work with one another. The founding values of the cooperative movement, self-help, self-responsibility and solidarity, remain the most practical basis for collective enterprise. We join knowledge, applied action and ethical responsibility in member-owned, member-governed enterprise, guided by the International Cooperative Alliance’s principle of concern for community. We proceed incrementally, attribute every partner by name, and distinguish demonstrated capacity from stated intent.