ED
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Executive Director
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About us
A small Rwandan organisation, working one plot at a time
Enable Rwanda started with a simple observation: the advice reaching farmers on our hills was written for somewhere else. We set out to test what works here, and to teach it properly.
Our story
It began with a season of listening
Before we ran a single training we spent a season visiting farmer groups and asking what they needed. The answers were rarely what a project document would have predicted. Farmers wanted to know what a practice would cost them in labour, what happened if it failed, and whether anyone nearby had tried it.
So we built the organisation around those three questions. We work on plots rather than in halls. We stay with a group across a full season instead of arriving once. And we measure what happened, with a university partner checking the numbers, so the next group gets better advice than the last one.
We are small. We would rather do a handful of things properly in a few sectors than spread thin across the country and have nothing to show for it.
Our mission
To enable Rwandan communities to adopt conservation based farming and development practices through training, innovation, research and partnerships.
Our vision
Rwandan communities that grow enough, protect the land they farm, and decide for themselves what comes next.
What we hold to
Five things we will not trade away
These are not posters on a wall. Each one has cost us something at least once.
- 01
Stewardship of the land
The soil on a Rwandan hillside is thin and it washes away fast. Every practice we teach has to leave it in better shape than we found it.
- 02
Community first
We work through people who already live in the sector. Farmer groups, church groups, cooperative leaders, young graduates. They stay after we leave.
- 03
Integrity and accountability
We publish what we spend and what we achieved, including the parts that did not go to plan.
- 04
Research and education
If we cannot measure it, we do not claim it. University partners hold us to that.
- 05
Faith in action
The organisation grew out of a faith community, and the habit that came with it is simple: turn up, and keep turning up.
Leadership
Who runs Enable Rwanda
Names, faces and how to reach us. If you are considering funding or partnering with us, you should know exactly who you would be working with.
- PL
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Programmes Lead
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- RAP
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Research and Partnerships
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- FC
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Field Coordinator
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Team profiles are added through the CMS. Until real names, photos and biographies are published, these cards show the roles only rather than placeholder people.
Partners and funders
We do not do this alone
Universities check our numbers. Partner organisations open doors we cannot open ourselves. We name all of them.
- CURCatholic University of RwandaResearch, digital agriculture and student placements
- SRShalom Rwanda, Inc.Community wellbeing support, West Lafayette, Indiana
Accountability
Annual reports
What we ran, who took part, what it cost, and what we would do differently.
- Publishing soon
Impact report 2025
Our first full year of programmes: what we ran, who took part, what it cost and what we would do differently.
Looking for something specific, such as a budget breakdown or a programme evaluation? Ask us
Newsletter
Field notes from Rwanda
A short email every month or so. Training reports, harvest results, and what we learned along the way. No noise.