World Connect Rwanda
Supporting locally-led development in Rwanda by investing in the solutions of Rwandan communities to address their most pressing challenges.
World Connect
Rwanda
Since 2012, World Connect Rwanda has invested $870,450 in 187 community-led projects toward which communities have co-invested $325,748 and raised an additional $243,663 from other funders.
Our investments have improved education, health, economic opportunity, environmental protection, water, hygiene and sanitation, and agriculture while empowering women and youth to lead these local development initiatives.
Through a network of local development champions, World Connect Rwanda has supported locally-led development projects across all the four provinces of Rwanda and the City of Kigali. These projects are designed and implemented by local community members who ensure that the initiatives solve their most pressing issues and continue to sustain benefits for their communities beyond the seed investment from World Connect Rwanda.
Our co-investment partnership model leads to skill growth, expanded trust and unity, and readied communities with localized development leadership.
By The Numbers
We work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 2,200+ investments using a custom built database.
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By The Numbers
WWe work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 2,200+ investments using a custom built database.
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Project Co-Investments
World Connect Rwanda reaches the most remote communities, improving livelihoods for vulnerable communities while building trust for local development champions. 48% of our project leaders are first time grantees.
This project will support 47 girls and young women to complete six months of entrepreneurship, work skills, and fashion and design training. The girls will develop business plans to be implemented in...
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Mbarara 1 is a village of about 420 houses on a mountain. There are no schools or a local health center in this village, and residents make a living by farming maize in surrounding marshes, gathering...
This project will focus on three women's basket-weaving cooperatives in Gasabo District, Kigali that have been identified as needing extra support to improve on either their production, sales,...
The project will support 100 neediest households in Birambo village in Manihira sector of Rutsiro district in the Western Province of Rwanda to improve their food security and incomes through raising...
This project aims at supporting 60 women from a community of indigenous and historically marginalized people living in Vuganyana village, in Kigali, to grow vegetables to improve their family's...