Koiva Strides — From enrolment to opportunity

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Practical, self-paced courses for farmers, entrepreneurs and teams — from Koiva Academy and trainers we review. No application, no waiting: verify your email and start the first lesson in minutes.

Free & self-paced

Learn on your phone, at your pace. Pick up where you left off.

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Open a free preview lesson and read the full syllabus first.

Certificates that travel

What you complete lands on your Passport — shareable with lenders.

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Lessons, study time and results in one learning home.

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Who it's for

One journey. Every starting point.

The platform adapts to who is on it. The curriculum, the financing links, and the assessment criteria shift — the structure stays the same.

Agriculture

Farmers & cooperatives

Individual smallholders and farmer groups moving from subsistence to market participation and input financing.

Agri-input credit readiness
Cooperative governance training
Produce market linkage
Group savings and offtake financing

Enterprise

Small & growing businesses

Informal and semi-formal businesses building the records, skills, and credibility to access working capital.

Business formalisation
Financial record keeping
Lender introductions
Business plan development

Community

Youth, women & groups

Groups and individuals accessing structured capacity building and grant or loan programmes through organised cohorts.

Vocational and life skills
Group savings management
Grant programme access
Mentorship and peer learning

How it works

Four stages. One passport.

Every beneficiary moves through the same four stages. Their progress, certificates, scores, and business data travel with them in a single verified profile.

Enrol

Business profile, sector, baseline. The passport is created.

Learn

Structured curriculum — modules, assessments, certificates.

Assess

Business health and financing-readiness score. Gaps identified.

Connect

Warm introductions to matched lenders, grants, or markets.

The Beneficiary Passport

One link. Everything a lender needs.

Completed training, certificates, assessment scores, and business data in one shareable profile. A lender or grant-maker opens it and sees a full, verified picture — no paperwork chase, no cold application. It travels with the beneficiary across programmes and years.

Passport contains

Business registration & profile

Training certificates earned

Assessment scores over time

Financial records summary

Financing readiness rating

Features

Built for the full support journey

Not a standalone training tool. Not just a loan application. The complete pipeline from onboarding to financing — in one system.

Curriculum

Flexible learning management

Operators upload their own curriculum or draw from a shared library. Modules, assessments, and certificates, tracked per beneficiary and cohort. Mobile-first with low-data modes.

Assessment

Health & readiness scoring

Formative and summative assessments with pass marks, rubrics, and gradebooks. Readiness scored against financing criteria so operators know who is ready and what gaps remain.

Linkage

Financing & market connections

Matched introductions to partner lenders, grant programmes, input suppliers, or offtake buyers — based on passport score and business profile. Warm and evidence-backed, not cold.

Cohorts

Programme management

Enrol and manage cohorts back to back, track group and individual progress, set milestones, and export the reports funders and county governments require.

Passport

Portable beneficiary profile

Every beneficiary's data, certificates, and scores in one shareable link. Travels across programmes, lenders, and years — building a verifiable track record.

Data

Programme analytics

Cohort completion rates, readiness score distributions, financing conversion. The evidence operators need to report to funders and improve the programme.

Programme operators

Who runs it

Organisations run their beneficiary programmes on Koiva Strides as their own infrastructure, carrying their branding. Independent trainers can publish courses too — reviewed by Koiva before they go on the public catalog.

Financial sector

Banks & MFIs

Running capacity-building programmes as a loan pipeline. Train, assess, and convert graduates into bankable borrowers with a documented trail.

Public sector

County governments

Delivering structured support to constituents under youth, women, and enterprise funds — with the reporting trail funders and auditors require.

Development

NGOs & partners

Managing multi-cohort beneficiary programmes with funder-grade reporting, progress tracking, and evidence of outcomes.

Independent

Trainers & experts

Publishing your own courses — free or as part of a programme — with a course page, preview lessons, assessments and certificates.

Teach on Koiva

Share what you know. Build your stride.

Sign up as an independent creator, build your course with our tools — lessons, quizzes, a course poster with a QR code — and we'll review it for the public catalog.

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Pricing model

Operator pays. Beneficiary uses free or at minimal cost.

Per-cohort or annual subscription for operators, with your own branding on the beneficiary-facing portal. Founding-operator rates available.

Register your organisation.

Run your programmes on Strides. Organisations that join get:

Your own branding on the beneficiary portal
Founding-operator pricing, locked in
Dedicated onboarding and setup support
A direct line to the product team

1
Register in five minutes
Tell us who you are and whom you run programmes for.
2
Koiva verifies your organisation
We review every organisation before it goes live, then help you set up.
3
Launch your first programme
Set up a course or cohort, invite participants, and watch progress from day one.