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TechnoServe Rwanda has organized four major projects across a diverse array of sectors and in key areas such as rural youth-led enterprise development. Through these initiatives, TechnoServe has helped nearly 60,000 direct beneficiaries increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods.
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Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise
TechnoServe is partnering with the MasterCard Foundation to help rural young women and men in East Africa transition to... economic independence. The Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program delivers a comprehensive package of services including skills training, business development and mentoring to young people ages 18 to 30 in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
Partners
MasterCard Foundation
East Africa Dairy Development
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and implemented in partnership with Heifer International, East Africa... Dairy Development (EADD) aims to double the dairy incomes of 179,000 smallholder farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The program facilitates improved dairy production, business practices and market access by developing chilling plant hubs.
Transforming the Coffee Sector
Now in its second four-year phase, the Coffee Initiative aims to significantly boost Rwanda coffee farmers’ incomes... while raising yields and quality. TechnoServe business advisors work with farmers to improve growing and processing practices as well as build new wet mill businesses that produce some of Rwanda’s finest specialty coffee. In addition, TechnoServe’s Coffee Farm College in Rwanda is training farmers on sustainable agricultural practices that have been known to triple their yields. To date, 46 wet mills have been supported and 32,000 coffee farmers assisted with a 52 percent increase in overall yields.
Partners
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Boosting Incomes of Orphan Pineapple Farmers
TechnoServe is currently implementing a one-year pilot, the Icyerekezo Project, to address farmer associations’... pineapple production challenges in the Rwamagana district. The project targets approximately 60 genocide and/or HIV positive orphan farmers, ages 15 to 25, involved in pineapple production. To increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods, TechnoServe will provide trainings to build the business and organization management capacity of existing farmer associations, upgrade them to commercially-focused cooperatives and link them to essential pineapple agro-processors, traders and input suppliers.
Supporting Rural Women
In 2010, TechnoServe piloted business training for marginalized and socially excluded women in rural areas to... supplement Women for Women International’s life skills support program. The training was offered to 200 high-potential women beneficiaries who represent more than 6,000 cooperative members. It focused on how to form and lead successful and legitimate cooperatives and launch and manage sustainable, competitive businesses.
Partners
Women for Women InternationalBlog Posts
December 14, 2012
Photo of the Week: Coffee Leads to Prosperity in Rwanda
Byagatonda Emmanuel and his wife Murerehe Speciose live in a prime coffee-producing area in Rwanda, but for years they produced low-quality coffee in small quantities.
October 25, 2012
Dairy Program Changing Lives Through Power of Partnerships
Pierre Ferrari, the president and CEO of Heifer International, recently shared a story about how the East Africa Dairy Development project is changing lives in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. The project, he writes, is a great example of collective impact, where each partner brings its own expertise to bear on the challenges at hand.
August 17, 2012
Photo of the Week: Coffee Income Provides Health Insurance in Rwanda
Jackeline Mukandori is a member of the Mizero coffee farmers cooperative in Rwanda’s Nyanza district. Here, she displays the health insurance cards that she bought for her family with income from coffee. The insurance helped her get treatment for her son when he contracted malaria.
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TechnoServe Rwanda
1st Floor, Murenzi Building Boulevard de l'Aeroport Tel: +250 252 580 414 |
Ndavi Muia
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