Programs Manager, Kilimo Corps Africa
Educator, sustainability practitioner, and field-oriented implementation leader helping turn agricultural ideas into practical training models, real community learning spaces, and climate-smart action.
Kepha Rabon serves as Programs Manager at Kilimo Corps Africa, where he helps translate institutional ambition into practical delivery. His work reflects a strong combination of execution, innovation, and youth-centered agricultural training, making him an important part of how the organization builds programs that are hands-on, relevant, and rooted in real systems.
With a background in Agricultural Education and Extension, Kepha brings both classroom and field credibility to his work. He has built experience in sustainable agriculture, farmer education, project coordination, waste management, and climate-smart agricultural practice, with a particular strength in shaping practical learning environments that young people can directly engage with.
His leadership stands out because it is deeply implementation-oriented. Whether through model farms, youth clubs, waste-to-value approaches, or community-facing training, Kepha’s contribution is about making agricultural transformation tangible, visible, and usable on the ground.
Kilimo Corps Africa
Building practical models that strengthen agricultural learning and implementation.
Supporting the implementation of training activities, field programs, and practical delivery systems that move plans into action.
Applying sustainable and resource-smart ideas such as waste management and Black Soldier Fly systems in practical agricultural settings.
Creating learning environments where students and young people can engage agriculture through direct practice, ownership, and exposure.
Advancing climate-smart, conservation-oriented, and environmentally responsive agricultural approaches in both school and community settings.
Kepha’s role is especially important because institutions need people who can do more than imagine solutions. They need leaders who can build workable models, coordinate delivery, and create learning spaces that make ideas real.
His experience reflects exactly that kind of value. From reviving school-based Young Farmers programming to developing small but intensive urban farm models and integrating organic waste management through Black Soldier Fly technology, his work shows a practical understanding of how innovation becomes implementation.
Within Kilimo Corps Africa, this gives the institution stronger capacity to deliver programs that are not only inspiring in language, but concrete in structure, replicable in design, and relevant to communities and learners.
Strong ability to design environments where agriculture is learned through doing, observation, experimentation, and real ownership.
Brings practical attention to waste reduction, circular agricultural approaches, and resource-efficient field models.
Builds models where young people do not just participate, but actively shape and sustain agricultural initiatives.
Kepha’s experience reflects a blend of agricultural education, project coordination, sustainability practice, and real field-based agricultural innovation.
Kangemi Boys High School
Ministry of Agriculture, Kakamega County
Upper Kabete Campus
University of Nairobi / Africa for SDGs Hub
University of Nairobi
September 2020 – Present
Strong ability to coordinate practical activities, field implementation, and stakeholder-linked initiatives.
Experience in organic waste utilization, Black Soldier Fly systems, and environmental sustainability.
Brings leadership strength in student-centered agricultural initiatives and practical youth ownership models.
Applies practical thinking to field challenges, resource use, and sustainability-oriented agricultural opportunities.
University of Nairobi, Office of Career Services, 2023.
Certificate recognizing engagement in STEM and innovation-oriented learning.
UNESCO O3+ Peer Counselling and JESILO Consultancy peer mediation certificates.
Recognition reflecting leadership promise and civic contribution.
Kepha’s leadership brings strong field energy to Kilimo Corps Africa. His work reflects the kind of implementation mindset the institution needs: practical, sustainability-oriented, youth-centered, and grounded in what can actually work. By helping develop real learning environments and delivery models, he strengthens the organization’s ability to move from vision to action in credible ways.
