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.
Working with the Mushishiro Health Center and volunteer community health workers, this project will produce 65 local permagardens, designed to mimic natural systems to capture and hold rainfall in an...
Nyabisindu is a low-income community in Kigali. In 2014, a local organization Action for Women Foundation formed to empower women and implement development projects to improve the community. The...
Duterimbere is a women-led, soap making cooperative that recently formed in Nyagihanga Sector, Rwanda. The project is a natural complement to World Connect's Biogas for All project, which is in its...
Each year, Rwandan students take a national exam to determine if they will graduate from secondary school. Unfortunately, many of the required books for the exam’s literature focus are not...
G.S. Murunda is a 12-year school that provides education to the less advantaged students of the surrounding community. This project will expand the school’s computer lab with nine new...