Project name: One small Enterprise ’’1SE’’Project name: One small Enterprise ’’1SE’’

Team name: Learn 4m your Weaknesses

Ruhengeri Institute of Higher Education

Musanze, Northern Provice

Rwanda

L4M Your Weaknesses ’’Overview’’ L4M Your Weaknesses ’’Overview’’

EXODUS

Ltd off farming jobs

Ltd Vocational Training Centres (VCTs)

Drugs abuse & HIV/AIDS

Sciences

Professional/Technical Skill Lost

Increase Gender inequity

Algeria

Zambia

TanzaniaDR Congo

Botswana

Morocco Tunesia

Rwanda

Burundi

Cameroon

Africa

MUSANZE

RUHENGERI Institute of Applied Sciences

Drop out of

school

Solution1: Tourism

Solution2: Arts & Crafts Solution3: Food

processing

Rwanda – Musanze Profile Rwanda – Musanze Profile Genocide in 1994 1

million killed (Former leadership based on exclusion)

After 1994: Current governance ≠structures demonstrated better leadership with principles of equity and strategic socio-economic development policies

The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy II (EDPRS II), is a medium term development that lays out a four year (2013-2017) development plan to move one step closer to reaching Rwanda vision 2020 objectives.

The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy II (EDPRS II), is a medium term development that lays out a four year (2013-2017) development plan to move one step closer to reaching Rwanda vision 2020 objectives.

The Vision 2020 seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into a middle-income country by the year 2020.

The Vision 2020 seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into a middle-income country by the year 2020.

10,537,222 People out of 26,338 Km2 (Rwanda)

10,537,222 People out of 26,338 Km2 (Rwanda)

ForFor

1,729,927 people/North Province

1,729,927 people/North Province 368,563 people/Musanze

District

368,563 people/Musanze District

31,970 People Musanze/Sector

31,970 People Musanze/Sector

3,256 Ruhengeri Institute of Applied Sciences

3,256 Ruhengeri Institute of Applied Sciences

90% dependent on agriculture activities to survive.

90% dependent on agriculture activities to survive.

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Profile cont.Profile cont.

Agriculture is the lifeblood of 91% of the population in Musanze District.

One Tow big industries: Pyrethrum & Wheat Factory

Touristic district with Volcanoes National Parks home to 800 Mountain Gorillas.

One Small Enterprise 1SEOne Small Enterprise 1SE

1. How do youth in Musanze envisage their Future?

2. What kind of community do they want to see and become?

3. How can they raising their voice to fight unemployment using their available resources?

4. What are the transformations needs to impact positively their community?

These are main questions the project named: ‘’1SE’’ would like to address.

1SE cont.,1SE cont.,

Overall Objective:The 1SE aims at enabling youth to strengthen Entrepreneurship skills by

making them aware of use available resources to sustain their livelihoods

Specific Objectives:

1. Bring together and encourage youth to be innovative, creative and focus on existing opportunities in Food processing, Tourism and Handcarts.

2. Encourage youth to be self dependent by creating profit organization and install a culture of saving for their future;

3. To initiate cooperative with local, national, regional and international Enterprises to strengthen the project sustainability.

1SE Solution One1SE Solution OneTourism Sector: Arts and Crafts via a dynamic website

Available market:

Travel and tourism Agencies:

Airlines, Hotels, Motels, car rental Companies

Website users: tourists, business, Leisure, events, sports and other travellers,

Creating jobs to approximately 250 youth by 2016

1 SE Solution 2:1 SE Solution 2:

Food Processing sector:

Available market:

Hotels, Motels, schools, public and private instituttions

Create jobs for approximately 350 youth by 2016

Creating jobs to 115 Youth in Musanze

References:References:

1. Department of Land Survey, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory for maps.

2. Musanze District website

References:References:

1. Department of Land Survey, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory for maps.

2. Musanze District website