Rwanda

Introducing Business (Development) Services in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Senegal

ICCO’s (part of Cordaid) STARS program applies the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, with an aim ...

Simbuka and ICCO Digitize Loan Tool for African Smallholders

The Dutch-based software solution corporation Simbuka and the international development organization ICCO Cooperation join forces by signing ...

STARS Program Continues, Despite Covid-19

Our STARS program finds innovative ways to continue its activities despite covid-19. Here are some examples from ...

Women’s Participation in the Maize and Bean Value Chains in Rwanda

Manual labor is commonly associated with men, not excluding agriculture, where long hours are spent outdoors tending ...

Combating Fungal Diseases in Rwandan Agriculture

Agriculture is the main economic activity in Rwanda with 70% of the population engaged in the sector, and ...

Launch of manual on Group Solidarity System for Producer Organizations

On 14th February 2019, ICCO Cooperation and the World Food Program (WFP) in Rwanda launched a manual on ...

Meet the Farmer: Rose, a Determined Smallholder Farmer

Rwanda Agriculture Show Provides Marketing and Networking Opportunities for Farmers

Business Linkages Strengthen the Value Chains in Rwanda

Maniraguha Patrick and his family live in a small farming community in Gakuyo in the east of ...

The impact of the STARS program in Rwanda

After five years, the ICCO Part of Cordaid STARS program in Rwanda is coming to an end. ...

Mitigating effects of climate change through crop insurance in Rwanda

Farmers in Rwanda increasingly face excessive rainfall and floods or extreme drought due to climate change. This ...

Empowering Youth in Rwanda to Become Successful Agri-preneurs

To help youth become successful agri-entrepreneurs (and evolving them from land renters to landowners in the long ...

STARS in Rwanda empowers women to take leadership roles at work and at home

By supporting producer organizations in Rwanda to include more women in their leadership, ICCO Cooperation’s STARS ...

How to Scale Fee-Based Services within Producer Organizations in Rwanda

One of the main challenges for producer organizations in Rwanda is to sustain agricultural training programs for ...

Combating Fungal Diseases in Maize Value Chain in Rwanda

Many farmers store their maize produce for months after harvest with the aim to sell it at ...

Introducing Equipment, Creating Jobs For Youth in Rwanda

By mapping the gaps and opportunities in equipment financing, STARS discovered a new pathway to improve access ...

A-CAT - A Tool for Risk Assessment in Agriculture Financing

Both farmers and MFIs have an interest to know how much it costs to produce a certain ...

Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers Contributes to Food Security

Measuring Income of Smallholder Farmers: Some Insights from Practitioners

Life is complex. And so is the measurement of income and economic empowerment. Here are four take-away ...

Making the Market Work for the Poor: Case of STARS Program

Making the market work for the poor (M4P) is an approach that aims to improve the ...

Effectively Assessing Household Food Security Status

A New Instrument to Measure Food (In)Security: MAHFP

To increase food security is an important objective for ICCO Cooperation, in facts it is a separate ...

STARS Program: Characterizing Smallholder Farmers Households

The STARS Program aims to have an impact on smallholder farmers by giving them access to credit ...

​Navigating with Data to Increase Income and Food Security

How to stay in control of your results? In the Strengthening African Rural Smallholders program (STARS) ICCO ...

Strong Women, Strong Farms: Empowering Female Smallholders through Access to Finance

Many women in Africa struggle to scale their farms and build their businesses. This blog explains how ...