Q&A with Pauline Mwangi: How Guidance from Girls Strengthened a Program in Kenya
Girl-centered design works. Learn how TechnoServe transformed a program in Kenya with guidance from girls.
Girl-centered design works. Learn how TechnoServe transformed a program in Kenya with guidance from girls.
Byagatonda Emmanuel and his wife Murerehe Speciose live in a prime coffee-producing area in Rwanda, but for years they produced low-quality coffee in small quantities.
Access to credit frees Haitian farmers to sell and invest on their own terms. As part of the Haiti Hope Project, TechnoServe and its partners have launched a pilot loan program for farmers who have difficulty accessing credit in Haiti.
Meet the owner of a business that supplies affordable, ready-to-eat frozen foods for a growing number of city dwellers in Kenya.
In the developing world, small businesses face a number of obstacles that their counterparts in developed countries do not.
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Sam Koole, chairman of the Kainja Mango Farmers Association, remembers a time only a few years ago when the fruit from the Sena, a variety of mango native to eastern Uganda, was left to rot on the ground. Since launching Project Nurture in 2010, local farmers are no longer taking the Sena for granted.
TechnoServe works to help farmers in San Martin, Peru increase productivity and improve the quality of their crops, promote value-added processes such as organic certification and foster related entrepreneurship and small business growth.
Joska Aweko’s life has been indelibly affected by conflict in northern Uganda. But peace has returned in recent years, and with it, the opportunity to rebuild.
In his first overseas trip as World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim visited Côte d’Ivoire and South Africa last week.