Implementers: IMBARAGA and The Eastern African Farmers’ Federation (EAFF)are co-implementing a three-year project (2018-2020) entitled “the project scaling up rural youth access to inclusive financial services for entrepreneurship and employment which runs from Nov 2017 – Nov 2020.
Donor: IFAD.

Imbaraga is the implementer at National level.

Main Goal of the project

The Project aims to is to contribute to ending extreme poverty and hunger in the East and Southern Africa region. It aims to do this by creating favorable conditions for strengthening the capacities of rural youth in four ESA (Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi) countries that allow them to set-up and run profitable agri-enterprises that lead to wealth and employment creation.

Achievement

So far, the project has reached 1,201 young farmers which 581 were female (48.3%) and 620were males (51.6%).

85 youth group enterprises trained on Agribusiness Planning. All have been linked in one way or the other to financial service providers through calls for proposals, meeting with financial institutions and donors, financial linkages done by consultants, one on one coaching for pitching to financial institutions done by AAA and youth fund using social media platforms.

There are at least 16 enterprises that have been successfully linked to financing these are from different sources like Sacco’s, youth fund, bank, donors, and investors.

7 enterprises have received trainings from other people like AGRA, AMI and BDF other than on various topics like contract farming, business development, etc.
11 entrepreneurial stories have been documented