The government of Kenya has made decision to embrace open and distance learning (ODL) in all education levels. This is aimed at opening education opportunities to all including out of school population.Kenya is an agricultural country with over 80% of the population relying on agriculture for their livelihood. Sadly, majority of the people working in agricultural sector, lack the skills and moreso digital skills to improve their production and income. Universities are expected to reach out the community with relevant skills and knowledge. Currently, ODL is implemented in very limited ways in the institutions of higher learning where resources have been availed to build capacity and develop content for open and distance learning. The AgriOpen project is designed to work with selected agricultural universities in Kenya, the Kenyan Commissions for Higher Education, the ministry of education, the Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) in collaboration with EU partners. The team will capacity build HEIs staff and prepare locally contextualized Open Learning modules with piloted and tested tools and protocols for curricula planning, implementation and retooling of teachers. The overall objective is to strengthen Kenya’s educational authorities capacity to support, manage, and govern competency-based, world of work-relevant, accredited, inclusive, and widely accessible higher education in agriculture for lifelong learning and sustainable national development. The specific objectives are (1) To support the development and implementation of frameworks for the accreditation, quality assurance, certification, and recognition of competency-based and inclusive AgriOpen Campus courses and programmes; (2) To strengthen educational authorities expertise, technical, managerial ability to establish, maintain, and manage the AgriOpen learning platform concept; (3) To retool partner HEIs and improve their capacity to develop and implement need- and competency-based and access.