MARKUP RWANDA
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Implementing Agency:
1. Oxfam Rwanda
2. ICU (Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria)
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Priority Sectors:
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Duration:
March 2020 - April 2024
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Budget:EUR 3.6 million
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Results:
- Horticulture high-value chains, SME and agribusiness development supported
- Coffee value chain developed
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Partners/Direct Beneficiaries:
- National Agricultural Export Development Board
- Business Support Organisations
- Trade and Investment Support Organisations
- Farmers, cooperaties and SMES in coffee and selected horticulture value chains
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Key Achievements
Horticulture
- 55 additional international buyers purchased horticultural products from targeted smallholders
- Five farmers' groups provided with fruit processing equipment for avalue addition
- Seven fruit processing comanies provided with packaging technologies
- 7,736 small-holder farmers selling on contract farming schemes
- Eleven farmers' grops an cooperatives suppored to secure financing in the form of loans or grants
Coffee
- Six new commercial partnerships created between coffee washing stations and exporters
- 96% of the coffee processed in the coffee washing stations supported by the project is certified
- Eight coffee washing stations supported to attain Rainforest Alliance certification
- Three international coffee industry representatives facilitated to explore market linkages with Rwandan producers
- Twelve coffee exporters supported to pariticpate in international trade fairs
Key achievements of MARKUP in Rwanda -
National Focal Point
Mr Antoine Kajangwe
Ministry of Trade and Industry