World Connect Rwanda
Supporting locally-led development in Rwanda by co-investing in the ideas and priorities of Rwandan communities.
World Connect
Rwanda
World Connect Rwanda is a non-profit organization that activates the power inside Rwandan communities by co-investing in their development priorities to solve their most pressing challenges.
Since 2012, World Connect Rwanda has invested $650,000 in 157 community-initiated and led projects, toward which communities have contributed $504,000 and raised an additional $243,000 from other investors.
Through its varied 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 advances development by distributing project grants and supporting sustainable capacity development through community management of projects. World Connect’s methodology leads to skill growth, expanded trust and unity, and readied communities with localized development leadership.
Our primary areas of co-investment are in education, health, economic opportunity and income generation, environmental protection, water, hygiene and sanitation, and agriculture, while empowering women and youth to lead these local development initiatives.
By The Numbers
We work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 1,800+ investments using a custom built database.
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By The Numbers
We work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 1,800+ 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. 55% of our project leaders are first time grantees.
The Action for Women Foundation (AWF) was started in 2014 and has 34 members, all single mothers in the Nyabisindu neighborhood of Kigali, Rwanda. Many are HIV positive. It formed to create a way for...
Cyasenge is composed of 164 households totaling 725 people. The community lacks clean water, electricity, and access to a health clinic due in part to its location 10 kilometers away from the nearest...
Nangimbibi is composed of 84 households totaling 360 people. 46 households out of 84 are supported by the government. The community suffers from extensive soil erosion in the rainy season which often...
Remera is composed of 143 households. The limited arable land, situated upon rocky soil, cannot effectively support the population leading to food insecurity. Most community members do not possess an...
The rural community of Gahengeri struggles to respond to food insecurity and lack of economic opportunity. Community health workers have concluded confronting the area's health challenges will...
World Connect
Rwanda Board
World Connect Rwanda is currently recruiting an Advisory Board which will support its vision and future growth plans. If you would like to be part of this locally-led development journey, please feel free to contact us.