Education
Empowering rural women through climate resilient vegetable farming
Training 100 vulnerable women in Ngamba Sector in climate smart vegetable farming and nutrition, with a startup toolkit, seed funding and savings groups behind them.
- District
- Kamonyi
- Period
- 2027
- Status
- Planned
- Partners
- Kamonyi District officials, Ngamba local leaders, Agronomists, nutritionists and community health workers
- 100
- women to be trained
- 2
- demonstration plots
- 37.1%
- child stunting rate in Kamonyi
Kamonyi District has a child stunting rate of 37.1 percent, driven by food insecurity and limited household income among rural women.
Who it is for
100 vulnerable women across two cells in Ngamba Sector, prioritising women headed households and carers of malnourished children.
What they will learn
Climate smart vegetable farming, including mushroom cultivation, taught at two demonstration plots. Alongside it, nutrition education and entrepreneurship training.
What they leave with
A startup toolkit and seed funding each, plus a Village Savings and Loan Association and a peer group of ten that meets twice a month.
Timing
Scheduled from January to December 2027. The budget is 165,000,000 Rwandan francs.
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.