Rwanda
Ilvy Njiokiktjien/Partners in HealthPatients outside the Rwinkwavu hospital in eastern Rwanda, which was rebuilt from an abandoned facility through a partnership among CHDI, CHAI, Partners In Health, and the Government of Rwanda. The hospital serves 265,000 local people.
At the invitation of the government of Rwanda, CHDI is focusing efforts in the Eastern Province, a particularly dry and poor region that is home to more than 1.5 million people. In Rwanda, CHDI is focusing on:
- Developing Agribusiness:
CHDI seeks to identify large-scale business opportunities, develop the market research and business plans to support them, and then actively invest in the businesses alongside local co-investors. CHDI maintains a hands-on involvement through construction and implementation phases, lending management, technical, and marketing expertise. These large agri-based business development projects will create employment and stimulate demand for crops that are supplied by local farmers.
- Training farmers:
In areas where CHDI is working to develop agribusiness, local farmers are supported through access to inputs and technical advice, and with firm contracts with the newly created business in order to ensure they have a dependable customer and will get a fair price for their crops.
- Community Investment:
CHDI reinvests any financial benefit from the original investment into related projects or infrastructure improvements in surrounding communities. These projects include rebuilding and renovating hospitals and healthcare facilities and constructing schools.
- Discounting purchasing:
CHDI works to assist the national government in large-scale purchasing of farming inputs to supply to local farmers at a significant cost savings. of fertilizer in Rwandan history, resulting in 10-20 percent price savings.
