STARS
Strengthening African Rural Smallholders, in short STARS, is a project in partnership with Mastercard Foundation and ICCO ...
In this animation we introduce our program STARS: Strengthening African Rural Smallholders. STARS improves value chains and give smallholders better access to financial instruments in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Rwanda and Ethiopia. It is a collaboration of ICCO Cooperation with ICCO TerrafinaMicrofinance, supported by the MasterCard Foundation.
Strengthening African Rural Smallholders, in short STARS, is a project in partnership with Mastercard Foundation and ICCO ...
ICCO’s (part of Cordaid) STARS program applies the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, with an aim ...
The Dutch-based software solution corporation Simbuka and the international development organization ICCO Cooperation join forces by signing ...
Our STARS program finds innovative ways to continue its activities despite covid-19. Here are some examples from ...
Manual labor is commonly associated with men, not excluding agriculture, where long hours are spent outdoors tending ...
Agriculture is the main economic activity in Rwanda with 70% of the population engaged in the sector, and ...
On 14th February 2019, ICCO Cooperation and the World Food Program (WFP) in Rwanda launched a manual on ...
Maniraguha Patrick and his family live in a small farming community in Gakuyo in the east of ...
After five years, the ICCO Part of Cordaid STARS program in Rwanda is coming to an end. ...
Farmers in Rwanda increasingly face excessive rainfall and floods or extreme drought due to climate change. This ...
To help youth become successful agri-entrepreneurs (and evolving them from land renters to landowners in the long ...
By supporting producer organizations in Rwanda to include more women in their leadership, ICCO Cooperation’s STARS ...
One of the main challenges for producer organizations in Rwanda is to sustain agricultural training programs for ...
Many farmers store their maize produce for months after harvest with the aim to sell it at ...
By mapping the gaps and opportunities in equipment financing, STARS discovered a new pathway to improve access ...
Both farmers and MFIs have an interest to know how much it costs to produce a certain ...
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 (M4P) is an approach that aims to improve the ...
To increase food security is an important objective for ICCO Cooperation, in facts it is a separate ...
The STARS Program aims to have an impact on smallholder farmers by giving them access to credit ...
How to stay in control of your results? In the Strengthening African Rural Smallholders program (STARS) ICCO ...
Many women in Africa struggle to scale their farms and build their businesses. This blog explains how ...
As of 1st January 2021 ICCO has joined forces with Cordaid and continues as one organization under the name Cordaid.
ICCO’s international website will remain online for the time being and can be visited here or go to Cordaid: www.cordaid.org