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Volunteerism for the community development

Sixbert SANGWA
PROJECT PROPOSALS

2015

Here summarized are the three proposal ideas

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conceived and developed by the author. However,
irrespective of some mistakes, this document can
be used as a model for planners who may need to
write different project and/or business proposals.
Additionally, some people may be interested in one
or another project idea contained herein! Please
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current document; we hope your ideas will help
improve much on our way of doing things.

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PROJECT PROPOSALS

I. LET’S BUILD A STRONG CHURCH AND SCHOOL FOR CHRISTIAN

EDUCATION

Prepared by Pr. Sixbert SANGWA

Church activities to increase opportunities for religious education,

fellowship and the growth of ministries

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

After a year of the ZOAR International church in Rwanda and more particularly as we approach
the second anniversary of our beloved church, we become increasingly aware of the beauty of
God’s blessings. Through His grace, the work of our current and the dedication and labors of our
church leaders, the church continues to expand. At the end of 2014, we had more than 251
members, from 90 in beginning. With this growth, however, come new needs.

Therefore, in response to the current necessities of our church, we propose to embark upon a
major expansion project that will address our spiritual, educational, and fellowship needs. In
short, we are presented with the responsibility of matching the sacrifice and achievement of our
church leaders.

The present proposal entitled “Let’s build a strong church and school for Christian education”
that suggests the construction of a new church and school for our Christians, results from
the personal commitment decision to help our community grow both spiritually and in
knowledge.

“Let’s build a strong church and school for Christian education” will be implemented in
Kigali City, Kanombe sector and more particularly in Busanza cell, chosen based on the
increasing number of Presbyterians.

This project, whose objective is to increase opportunities for religious education, fellowship and
the growth of ministries, seeks to construct a small modern church and three classrooms for
youth education. It is budgeted for 77142$. However, to be successful, we will need the true
sacrifice of all our stewards. Actually, we have chosen to take a quiet period, during which we
seek to raise major leadership gifts, every member of the church will have the opportunity and
privilege to participate in this historic and vital project. We expect to get around 11427.7$ and in
justice, we seek grant of 65714.3$. Only you can measure the abundance of blessings you have
received and are able to return in time, talent and treasure for God’s work as we unite to
continue the mission of Jesus Christ through our parish.

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ABOUT THE ZOAR INTERNATIONAL CHURCH IN RWANDA

ZOAR international church was established in Rwanda from the beginning of the 2014 by
committed Christians who came together aiming to help grow the Christian spirit.

Until now the church is concentrated around three main stations, Kanombe, Muhanga and
Rwamagana. After defining its name, ZOAR international church, the priority became to extend
its presence throughout the whole country.

Vision

Build a strong church whose Christians are spiritually mature, able to testify God’s kingdom in
the world and whose social environment is fully bloomed.

Mission
Our mission is firstly to evangelize by proclaiming the love and salvation offered by God
through his son Jesus Christ,
Go to all nations and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
Matthew 28 : 19-20
And secondly to manifest the love of God through the concrete actions of human and social
development

The church stated in Rwanda, on the initiative of some Christians from other different churches
after having experienced a misunderstanding of their church leaders. In the beginning of 2014,
ZOAR international church encountered around 90 committed Christians who progressively
increased by the God’s blessings to further reach 251Christians by 2014.

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Contents
PROJECT PROPOSALS .................................................................................................................................... 2

I. LET’S BUILD A STRONG CHURCH AND SCHOOL FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ...................................... 2

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................. 3

ABOUT THE ZOAR INTERNATIONAL CHURCH IN RWANDA........................................................................... 4

Vision......................................................................................................................................................... 4

Mission...................................................................................................................................................... 4

I. BACKGROUND OF THE PROPOSA L ....................................................................................................... 1

II. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSAL ............................................................................................................ 1

2.1 MAJOR OJECTIVES:.............................................................................................................................. 1

2.2 SPECIFIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................... 1

III. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN ................................................................. 2

A. Expected project results ................................................................................................................... 2

B. Project activities and work plan........................................................................................................ 3

C. Implementing agent management of project................................................................................... 3

IV. PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION....................................................................................... 3

V. PROJECT BUDGET.................................................................................................................................. 4

TIME SHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES................................................................................................................... 1

II. COMMUNITY CONSULTANCY AGENCY FOR RESEARCH, MANAGEMENT, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL
CONSULTANCY ACTIVITIES............................................................................................................................ 2

FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................................... 3

ABSTRACT...................................................................................................................................................... 4

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOCIATION (CSA) .............................................................................. 5

Vision......................................................................................................................................................... 5

Mission...................................................................................................................................................... 5

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Activities.................................................................................................................................................... 5

I. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSAL....................................................................... 6

Reasons/need for this project................................................................................................................... 7

II. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSAL ............................................................................................................ 7

2.1 MAJOR OJECTIVES:.............................................................................................................................. 7

2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES........................................................................................................................... 7

III. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN ................................................................. 8

A. Expected project results ................................................................................................................... 8

B. Project activities and work plan........................................................................................................ 8

AREAS OF SERVICES .................................................................................................................................. 9

I. Department for Agriculture production ....................................................................................... 9

II. Department for Research and surveys ............................................................................................. 9

III. Department for management, scientific and technical consultancy ............................................... 9

This project intends the following major activities................................................................................... 9

C. Project Beneficiaries .......................................................................................................................10

D. Implementing agent management of project.................................................................................10

IV. PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION.....................................................................................10

V. PROJECT BUDGET................................................................................................................................11

TIME SHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES.................................................................................................................... i

III. VOCATIONAL SKILLS PROMOTION-CREATION OF RURAL VOCATIONAL COOPERATIVES................. ii

FOREWORD .............................................................................................................................................. iii

ABSTRACT..................................................................................................................................................... iv

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOCIATION (CSA) .............................................................................. v

Vision......................................................................................................................................................... v

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Mission...................................................................................................................................................... v

Activities.................................................................................................................................................... v

VI. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSA L .................................................................. 1

Reasons/need for this project................................................................................................................... 2

MEMBERS’ CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT........................................................................................... 2

VII. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSAL ........................................................................................................ 3

2.1 MAJOR OJECTIVES:.............................................................................................................................. 3

2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES........................................................................................................................... 3

VIII. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN ................................................................. 3

E. Expected project results ................................................................................................................... 3

F. Project activities and work plan........................................................................................................ 4

G. Project Beneficiaries ......................................................................................................................... 5

H. Implementing agent management of project................................................................................... 5

IX. PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION....................................................................................... 6

X. PROJECT BUDGET.................................................................................................................................. 7

TIME SHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES.................................................................................................................... i

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I. BACKGROUND OF THE PROPOSA L

Through faith, hard work and determination, our church continues to expand. Our ministries
continue to grow and an increasing number of Christians are calling for larger temple. It comes
now; a new and holy task that appears before our faithful church leaders. As our grandparents
and parents were faithful in their time, we too must be faithful in our time. Inspired by this
growth we have witnessed of our church and its ministries, a project to expand our facilities to
meet the current and future needs. Here the need to construct an expansion church.

II. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSAL

2.1 MAJOR OJECTIVES:

The main objective is to increase opportunities for religious education, fellowship and the growth
of ministries.

2.2 SPECIFIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The church leadership desires to learn of your thoughts and feelings concerning this project. It is
vital to ascertain the support of our community before proceeding further. Although much work
remains in order to fully define the specifics of the expansion project, we can state with
confidence that the project must include the following:

1. A New Temple: This beautified chapel will be able to meet the expanding needs of our
Christian community. The seating area for the faithful will consist of 300 seats. New
iconography will be introduced which will present the theology of our faith to our
stewards and will inspire reverence and bring solace to future generations.

2. New Classrooms / Meeting Rooms: With three classrooms, this building will enable our
Church School to flourish without space constraints. Additionally, many of our ministries
will find a home without the scheduling challenges that we currently experience in our
borrowed environment. A teen room, nursery and enclosed playground are well suited for
our church needs. A key benefit is that whatever future ministries the community may
seek to undertake will likely be able to be housed within facilities already in place for us.
However, we wish to use these classrooms for youth education especially vocational
trainings. They will also be used as meeting rooms by various church groups, such as
adult education, parish council, young adult education, a library / homework center, and

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Bible study groups to mention a few. With the increased number of stewards and the
expansion of our ministries, the community also faces a challenge to expand the
availability of parking. While no decision has been made on an exact plan to address
parking, we will seek additional input from our community to improve the parking
situation.

3. Fellowship Space: For our many parish family gatherings, a modern and beautiful
church that comfortably seats 300 will provide Christians with the necessary equipments
for our current fellowship needs and would allow for new special events in the future of
the parish and the temple in particular.

III. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN

A. Expected project results

(a) This project whose objective illustrated above, proposes the construction of a new and
modern temple as the church expansion. The temple will be comfortable for at least 300
seats with an iconography. Every church leader will be encouraged to hard work as
Christians will make their effort for the church construction as well as the expansion of the
ministry.
(b) Both the church and classrooms will serve as facilities to local communities and will call
upon the peasants to receive the good news of Christ.
(c) In the beginning Christians, especially vulnerable families, will be hired in the construction
phase to help them both increase their income and mobilize their neighbors to receive Christ
as their savior. We believe that through seminars, many people will become Christians
starting from the hired workers in the project.
(d) The project will have its freedom in managing its wealth, but not preventing it to cooperate
with the church leadership for the achievement of its goals.
(e) The project will also cooperate with local government officers as the proposed classrooms
will contribute to youth education.
(f) In the sector welfare, this project will help peasant increase their income and attract more
people to Christ, the TRUE LIFE.

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B. Project activities and work plan

The target population of this project is not only the Christian community of Kanombe parish who
will get service facilities but also unsaved community that will be preached and attracted to
Christ.

To better cooperate, church leaders will coordinate project activities with the help of the
Christian groups. In all, all of us are encouraged to own the project.

This project intends the following major activities:

1) Acquisition of land for the church and classrooms construction

2) Procurement activities
3) Construction of the church
4) Construction of three classrooms
5) Purchase of the church materials

C. Implementing agent management of project

Please refer to the church working spirit for information about administrative staff and support
mechanisms. This project will be owned by Christians who will contribute in-kind a fiscal
manager who will oversee all grant funds.
The project will contract with a company to provide enrichment program activities. It is this
company that will be responsible for construction of both the church and classrooms. However,
the project will be coordinated by Pastor Samson who will serve as program coordinator. The
church will contribute a project administrator who will oversee the company’s staff, program
operations, and financial management of all contracted funds.
The Program Coordinator will also be a liaison for the parish, Christians, the contracted company
and partners, helping them cooperate efficiently.

IV. PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Please also refer to project objectives stated earlier in the proposal to see how the proposed
project is structured around evaluation and results-oriented outcomes. The project coordinator
will provide a year-end evaluation for the project. This report is in addition to the quarterly

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reports that will be prepared and submitted by the Project Coordinator to the Steering Committee
and Grants Management Team.
The year-end report will provide a detailed analytic comparison of all project activities, including
the evangelism performances in content areas, attendance, and project achievement. The reports
will also evaluate how well the project has met the proposed objectives. All activities will be
examined, and recommendations will be made for program modifications, as necessary. In
general, the evaluation will examine how the project achieved its objectives and/or impacted the
community in both the welfare and spiritual sense.

The quarterly reports will allow the church leaders themselves, Christian communities, other
people in the area and the project funders to receive feedback on the success of the project, and
develop strategies to make adjustments to address issues and problems.

V. PROJECT BUDGET

No ACTIVITIES COSTS in $

1 Acquisition of land for the church and classrooms , land registration 28571
and relative activities

2 Procurement activities 714

3 Construction of the church 21429

4 Construction of three classrooms 17143

5 Purchase of the necessary materials for both the temple and the 7143
classrooms

6 Reporting and evaluation 2142

10 TOTAL 77142

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TIME SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

No ACTIVITIES WHO IS FIRS YEA

RESONSIBLE
1 2 3 4 5

1 Acquisition of land for the church and classrooms , land registration The parish X X
and relative activities
Grant management
team

2 Procurement activities The parish X

Grant management
team

3 Construction of the church The parish X X

Grant management
team

4 Construction of three classrooms The parish

Grant management
team

5 Purchase of the necessary materials for both the temple and the The parish
classrooms
Grant management
team

6 Reporting and evaluation The parish X X X X

Evaluation
committee

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II. COMMUNITY CONSULTANCY AGENCY FOR RESEARCH,

MANAGEMENT, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY
ACTIVITIES

Prepared by the Community Service Association

(CSA)

First year of activities in this community

development project

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FOREWORD

Rwanda has made good progress over the last two decades since the enormous challenges faced
in the aftermath of a genocide that destroyed the entire social and economic fabric of this
country. Rwandans have benefited from rapid economic growth, reduced poverty, more equality
and increased access to services including health and education. This has been possible only
through the hard work and dedication of millions of Rwandans supported by friends of Rwanda.
Our progress strengthens the belief that our development ambitions towards the Vision 2020 can
be achieved with our concerted efforts.
The Community Service Association (CSA) seeks to launch the” Community Consultancy
activities” to improve the community services. This is a launch into the home strait of our Vision
2020. The CSA is conscious of the fact that we are faced with new challenges of ensuring greater
self reliance and developing global competitiveness. Conscious of these challenges, the CSA
rose ahead knowing that working together, we always overcome.

In addition, the EDPRS II (2013-2018) period is the time when our private sector is expected to
take the driving seat in economic growth and poverty reduction. Through this strategy we will
call upon youth to join arms and participate on transforming the economy, the private sector and
alleviating constraints to growth of investment. We will develop the appropriate skills and
competencies to allow the community, particularly the youth, to become more productive and
competitive to support our ambitions.
We will also strengthen the platform for communities to engage decisively and to continue to
develop home grown solutions that have been the bedrock of our success. These are fundamental
principles as we work to improve the lives of all Rwandans in the face of an uncertain global
economic environment.
As we take this important step ahead in our future, let us increase our determination to become
makers of history, to shape our development and elevate Rwanda into a new era of prosperity
that will be celebrated for generations through our joint efforts.

Sixbert SANGWA
CSA Representative

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ABSTRACT

This proposal has been prepared with participation of all community service association
members who after analyzing the major problems that hinder the capacity of youth especially
young graduates in Rwanda, CSA has also attempted to look for the most suitable solutions and
proposed the implementation of “The Community Consultancy Agency for Research,
Management, Scientific and Technical Consultancy Activities” as a proposed project to build
the capacity of young people.

In order to achieve its objectives, this project will establish the general consultancy office to
coordinate all activities in the countrywide. Young graduates founders of the CSA will get
organized first in departments and start serving the community. Members of the Community
Service Association will have a greater contribution to the project with the help of the
community as a whole. The project will be implemented by the Community Service Association
(CSA) that will ensure the continuity of the project. The budget for the project is 22255$ while
the CSA is due to start the project at any time.

“This project is aligned with entrepreneurship development, youth employment and improved
community service. Its major objective is to build the capacity of youth, especially young
graduates so as to eradicate poverty by becoming self-employed and the enforcement of other
economic activities. The project will be implemented in the whole country of Rwanda, but in the
beginning activities will only start in Kigali city.

This document of the Community consultancy agency shows how the project itself will
encourage and mobilize all graduates to make use knowledge and skills acquired to
professionally work for the community, rather than waiting for donors. This will also positively
affect the surrounding community by encouraging the practice technological agriculture,
improve the savings culture, improve the solidarity culture, start their own small and medium
businesses and to develop business plan for financial credits from local institutions. All of these
will be done in their district as these members are working in different departments of the
association which departments will help them put in practice their knowledge acquired from
different universities. This project will also help people to solve the problem relative to the lack
of capacity for young people, especially by enabling them acquire the market share from locals
and make the sector attractive to other stakeholders and/or investors. The more the performance
of association , the more attractive it is to potential partners and clients.

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ABOUT THE COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOCIATION (CSA)

The community service association (CSA) is an association created by young volunteers and
graduates from the University of Rwanda - College of agriculture, animal sciences and veterinary
medicine. It started in November 2014 with 53 members including 8 women and 45 men from
different districts of the country. CSA offers to the community a variety of services such as
management, scientific and technical consulting services, contributes to agriculture production,
farmer school, and rural development projects, etc.

Vision
The vision of the Organization is to promote the participation of youth in sustainable
development.

Mission
The mission of CSA is to contribute to the promotion and development of self-help spirit among
young people and participate in community services for sustainable development.

Activities
The main activities of CSA are to:

1. Contribute to the promotion of the agricultural sector, the fight against malnutrition and
assistance in food security
2. Sensitize and mobilize the youth to hard working and participate in community services
3. Establish and assist the youth discussion forum
4. Participate in different socioeconomic and community development programmes for
sustainable development
5. Contribute to the education of the community on patriotism, hard work, integrity and
self confidence
6. Contribute to the environment protection and climate change adaptation
7. Contribute to the protection and defense of children's rights in particular and human
rights in general
8. Contribute to the promotion of youth employment through vocational skills and income
generating activities
9. Contribute to the fight against sexual violence and HIV/AIDS
10. Contribute to the fighting of illiteracy
11. Assist vulnerable groups and the population in disaster situation,
12. Establish relations and cooperate with other regional and international Organizations
and Institutions with similar objectives

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I. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSAL

In the professional training of December 02nd to December 15th,2015 that the University of
Rwanda – college of agriculture, animal sciences and veterinary medicine has given to its
finalists students, from the department of rural development and agribusiness, with the main
objective of calling upon its young graduates to participate in national development starting from
their local community and to build hope in Rwandans that they can sustain their development by
joining their efforts together. Young people who participated in these trainings have analyzed
different development projects and recommended the implementation of “Community
Consultancy Agency for Research, Management, Scientific and Technical Consultancy
Activities”

Poverty was generally found to be the most enemy of the country development. In the context of
Rwanda, where the great number of peasants live of subsistence agriculture, this poverty has
various origins as analyzed herein. However, Rwanda wants to move from subsistence
agriculture to technological and professional agriculture to further rely on a service based
economy and become a middle income country by 2017(EDPRS2).
To achieve this, four pillars were set to drive Rwanda in the EDPRS2. These include rural
development and youth employment which targets the creation of at least 200.000 new
employments every year.

For Rwanda to move from primary based economy to service based economy, Rwanda needs
first to reach an industry based economy. However, this shift would also be possible and
complicated. To shift to the service based economy, we need more entrepreneurs who can bear
risks and undertake new activities that would contribute to national economy. This is why the
CSA has thought to commence a “Community Consultancy Agency for Research,
Management, Scientific and Technical Consultancy Activities” that seek to mobilize young
graduates to become self-employed improve the community services and contribute to national
economic growth.

This proposal mainly targets the promotion of both rural and urban areas through the creation
and provision of new employments to rural young people. Hence, the major objective is to build
the capacity of local peasants, especially young people so as to eradicate poverty through the
reduction of unemployment and the enforcement of other economic activities.

This will be achieved by establishing a general consultancy bureau in every district to employ
the labor from different Universities. The Community Consultancy Agency will admit
committed graduates with different skills to work for the community and improve their
wellbeing.

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Reasons/need for this project

On the list of the heavier problems that hinder the welfare, as expressed by young population
especially young graduate, the most repeated is POVERTY which is regarded as the root of the
survival in developing countries. This poverty, in Rwandan youth, takes its roots in the
following:

1. Unemployment
2. The culture of waiting for donations
3. Ignorance
4. Subsistence agriculture
5. Low capacity in solving the basic problems/needs
6. Climate changes
7. Low capacity in starting his/her own business(Poor creativity)
8. Lack of cooperation

II. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSAL

2.1 MAJOR OJECTIVES:

This project is aligned with entrepreneurship development, youth employment and improved
community service. Its major objective is to build the capacity of youth, especially young
graduates so as to eradicate poverty by becoming self-employed and the enforcement of other
economic activities.

2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

1. To build a better cooperation among development organs that would use such a
community of young people as a tool for the achievement of their goals. These may
include local government, government and non-government institutions and agencies,
banks, local and international organizations and other NGOs that may be interested in
surveys, research, etc.
2. Help young people, members of the organization, get connected with banks and get
capital to start other small or medium businesses.
3. To let the young population use their knowledge and skills to work for the community
and contribute to national economic growth.

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III. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN

A. Expected project results

(g) This community project has an objective of eradicating poverty which is the major
constraint of rural development. Every member of the organization will be encouraged to
hard work and periodically save a little amount of money that would be helpful for the
unpredicted future and to enable the youth access the financial services such as credits.
(h) This project will call upon the young people to work in solidarity and even start the new
businesses for their families. These activities may include improved agriculture and animal
rearing.
(i) In the founding members from the University of Rwanda- College of agriculture, animal
sciences and veterinary medicine (UR-CAVM) will elect their representatives and the
necessary committee members. These committees will be in charge of monitoring the
organizational activities and mobilize the community, to evaluate organizational
transactions and to represent the organization in local government and other development
partners.
(j) The project will have its freedom in managing its wealth, not preventing it to cooperate with
local government to eradicate the most enemy that is poverty.
(k) In the sector welfare, this project will help youth to increase their income, work in solidarity
and attract more development partners. This will, in return, increase accumulated savings
per person which enable the peasant to acquire credits from local banks because monitoring
is quite easy as the individual has a known address.
(l) In agriculture sector, the project will help its development, especially the crop
intensification program (CIP) because if agriculture is improved by investing more money
in it, rural farmers would also develop.
(m)Aligned with poverty eradication, especially in rural areas, the project start different
department including agriculture production since the founding members graduated from
UR-CAVM

B. Project activities and work plan

The target population of this community project is all young people, especially young graduates
from all districts. Among them the great number will annually come from located Universities.
These participants will be encouraged to work as professionals.

To better cooperate, the founding members from UR-CAVM will establish a Community
consultancy office on national level and elect their representatives in all districts who shall b in

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charge of identifying potential partners and mobilizing other young people to join the
organization. The project will continually grow as universities continue to train more and more.
This increases the number of services rendered by the organization as the mobilization will also
be kept on to increase members.

AREAS OF SERVICES
Community Consultancy Agency will have the following departments:

I. Department for Agriculture production

Services: 1. Agriculture Production

2. Extension services

II. Department for Research and surveys

Services: 1. Research for development

2. Surveys on demand of any partner

3. Development of different projects and proposals

III. Department for management, scientific and technical consultancy

Services: 1. General consultancy services

2. Development of business plans for sale

3. Organizational business

This project intends the following major activities :

6) Trainings for the founding members on analysis of challenges, capacity, possible solutions,
selection of the most relevant community oriented activities and to develop business plans
for other businesses.
7) Preparation of documents governing different organs of the project,
8) To mobilize young people to join the organization in different district
9) Sensitize different institutions, NGOs, governmental or non-government agencies to make
use the Community Consultancy Agency in their usually activities(Identification of potential
partners)
10) Monitoring of the implementation of the project by every organ involved in the project.

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C. Project Beneficiaries

The target population of this project is all youth community, especially young graduates from
different Universities who will get organized in departments according to their career or field of
experience. However, in addition to the youth who are targeted by the project, the whole
community will also benefit from the services rendered by the organization.

D. Implementing agent management of project

Please refer to the previous section for information about community service association’s
administrative staff and support mechanisms. CSA will contribute in-kind a fiscal manager who
will oversee all grant funds.
The Program Coordinator will also be a liaison for youth and the organization, helping them to
get admitted as organizational members.

The CSA has planned general Community Consultancy office for the coordination of all
activities on national level. The District through the sector leadership will play a role of ensuring
that this center continues to focus on the mission of empowering the young people. Our hope is
to involve a range of stakeholders in the project

IV.PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Please also refer to program objectives stated earlier in the proposal to see how the proposed
project is structured around evaluation and results-oriented outcomes. The Office of Planning
and Evaluation at CSA will provide a year-end evaluation for the project. This report is in
addition to the quarterly reports that will be prepared and submitted by the Project Coordinator to
the Steering Committee and Grants Management Team.
The year-end report will provide a detailed analytic comparison of all program activities,
including the organizational performances in content areas, attendance, and project achievement.
The reports will also evaluate how well the program has met the proposed objectives. All
programs and activities will be examined, and recommendations will be made for program
modifications, as necessary. In general, the evaluation will examine how the program impacted
the community, especially the target group.

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The quarterly reports will allow the community, youth, project partners, CSA administration, and
others to receive feedback on the success of the project, and develop strategies to make
adjustments to address issues and problems.

V. PROJECT BUDGET

No ACTIVITIES COSTS in $

1 Trainings for the founding members on analysis of challenges, capacity, 1183

possible solutions, selection of the most relevant community oriented
activities and to develop business plans for other businesses.

2 Preparation of documents governing different organs of the project, 725

3 To mobilize young people to join the organization in different district 1450

4 Sensitize different institutions, NGOs, governmental or non-government 5397

agencies to make use the Community Consultancy Agency in their usually
activities(Identification of potential partners)

5 Monitoring of the implementation of the project by every organ involved 4500

in the project

6 Acquisition of land and Building the general consultancy office 9000

10 TOTAL 22255

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TIME SHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

No ACTIVITIES WHO IS FIRS YEA

RESONSIBLE
1 2 3 4 5

1 Trainings for the founding members on analysis of challenges, CSA x

capacity, possible solutions, selection of the most relevant community
oriented activities and to develop business plans for other businesses.

2 Preparation of documents governing different organs of the project, CSA x x

3 To mobilize young people to join the organization in different district CSA x x x x x

4 Sensitize different institutions, NGOs, governmental or non- CSA

government agencies to make use the Community Consultancy
x x x x x
Agency in their usually activities(Identification of potential partners)

5 Monitoring of the implementation of the project by every organ CSA

involved in the project
Funder

6 Acquisition of land and Building the general consultancy office CSA x x

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III.VOCATIONAL SKILLS PROMOTION-CREATION OF RURAL

VOCATIONAL COOPERATIVES

Prepared by the Community Service Association (CSA)

First year of activities in this community

development project

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FOREWORD

Among the four keys of the Rwandese second economic development and poverty reduction
strategy (EDPRS II), productivity and youth employment is emphasized. The key challenges
facing Rwanda in this area are high levels of underemployment in rural areas, insufficient non-
farm jobs being created, and high cost, uncompetitive skilled labour for firms in urban areas.

Productivity is the underlying driver of wages and incomes, hence the priorities of this EDPRS II
focus on increasing worker productivity by encouraging a shift from agriculture to industry and
services, and creating the conditions for higher worker productivity within each sector, in
conjunction with the other three EDPRS Thematic Strategies on Rural Development, Economic
Transformation, and Accountable Governance.

The overarching goal in this thematic area is to move Rwanda from an agriculture-based
economy to an industry and services-based economy as the Vision 2020 aims for half of the
Rwandese workforce to be working off-farm by 2020, up from just 28% today. This is because
non-farm workers are five times more productive than farm workers, and are 50% less likely to
be in poverty. Reaching this goal will require creating an additional 200,000 non-farm jobs per
year.
However, the Overall of the working age population (those aged above 16), 84% are in
employment and 16% are not working where farm workers make up 60% of the working age
population.

Based on the above statements, Knowing that the productivity is driven by education and
economic transformation that would help to move from farm to off-farm, considering also that
Private Sector job creation is underpinned by a strong economy and stable macroeconomic
environment; the community service association(CSA) is calling upon young graduates to
participate in entrepreneurial development through the promotion of crafts or vocational skills
that would yield more jobs for local peasants, especially young people to strive for economic
transformation and sustain our development

Sixbert SANGWA
CSA Representative

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ABSTRACT

The present proposal results from a cooperative work of the community service association
members who after analyzing the major problems that hinder the development of rural areas,
have also attempted to look for the most suitable solutions and proposed the implementation of
“VOCATIONAL SKILLS PROMOTION-CREATION OF RURAL VOCATIONAL
COOPERATIVES” as a proposed project to rural peasants support.

In order to achieve its objectives, this project will establish cooperatives of people who have the
same vocational skills such that all of these vocational cooperatives will get together in
vocational cooperative union on the sector level. Members of a vocational cooperative union will
have a greater contribution to the project with the help of the community as a whole. The project
will be implemented by the Community Service Association (CSA) within a period of one year
after which a hand over will be made between CSA and local government for the continuity of
the project. The budget for the project is 24541$ while the CSA is due to start the project at any
time.

“Vocational Skills Promotion-Creation of Rural Vocational Cooperatives“is aligned with

entrepreneurship development, youth employment and alternatives for vulnerable populations;
hence the major objective is to build the capacity of local peasants. The project will be
implemented in the southern province of Rwanda, Nyanza district and specifically in Muyira
sector. The sector was chosen due to the dominant vulnerable people while the major economic
activity is (subsistence) agriculture that young people are not interested in.

This document of the “Vocational Skills Promotion-Creation of Rural Vocational

Cooperatives“ based on the functioning and cooperation of vocational cooperatives shows how
the project itself will encourage and mobilize people in all sectors to make use of their vocational
skills and professionally work. This will also positively affect the surrounding community by
encouraging the practice technological agriculture, improve the savings culture, improve the
solidarity culture, start their own small and medium businesses and to develop business plan for
financial credits from local institutions. All of these will be done in their corresponding
vocational cooperatives which cooperatives will help them acquire credits, hence the solution for
the collateral problems. This project will also help people to solve the problem relative to the
lack of capacity, especially by enabling them acquire the market share from locals and make the
sector attractive to other stakeholders and/or investors. The better is the functioning and the
cooperation of vocational cooperatives, the easier is the monitoring process. This would also
help cooperatives to attract more funders that would even sponsor their projects.

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ABOUT THE COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOCIATION (CSA)

The community service association (CSA) is an association created by young volunteers and
graduates from the University of Rwanda - College of agriculture, animal sciences and veterinary
medicine. It started in November 2014 with 53 members including 8 women and 45 men from
different districts of the country. CSA offers to the community a variety of services such as
management, scientific and technical consulting services, contributes to agriculture production,
farmer school, and rural development projects, etc.

Vision
The vision of the Organization is to promote the participation of youth in sustainable
development.

Mission
The mission of CSA is to contribute to the promotion and development of self-help spirit among
young people and participate in community services for sustainable development.

Activities
The main activities of CSA are to:

13. Contribute to the promotion of the agricultural sector, the fight against malnutrition and
assistance in food security
14. Sensitize and mobilize the youth to hard working and participate in community services
15. Establish and assist the youth discussion forum
16. Participate in different socioeconomic and community development programmes for
sustainable development
17. Contribute to the education of the community on patriotism, hard work, integrity and
self confidence
18. Contribute to the environment protection and climate change adaptation
19. Contribute to the protection and defense of children's rights in particular and human
rights in general
20. Contribute to the promotion of youth employment through vocational skills and income
generating activities
21. Contribute to the fight against sexual violence and HIV/AIDS
22. Contribute to the fighting of illiteracy
23. Assist vulnerable groups and the population in disaster situation,
24. Establish relations and cooperate with other regional and international Organizations
and Institutions with similar objectives

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VI. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSA L

In the professional training of December 02nd to December 15th,2015 that the University of
Rwanda – college of agriculture, animal sciences and veterinary medicine has given to its
finalists students, from the department of rural development and agribusiness, with the main
objective of calling upon its young graduates to participate in national development starting from
their local community and to build hope in Rwandans that they can sustain their development by
joining their efforts together. Young people who participated in these trainings have analyzed
different development projects and recommended the implementation of “Vocational Skills
Promotion-Creation of Rural Vocational Cooperatives“

Poverty was generally found to be the most enemy of the country development. In the context of
Rwanda, where the great number of peasants live of subsistence agriculture, this poverty has
various origins as analyzed herein. However, Rwanda wants to move from agriculture based
economy to a service based economy and become a middle income country by 2017(EDPRS2).
To achieve this, four pillars were set to drive Rwanda in the EDPRS2. These include rural
development and youth employment which targets the creation of at least 200.000 new
employments every year.

For Rwanda to move from primary based economy to service based economy, Rwanda needs
first to reach an industry based economy. However, this shift would also be possible and
complicated. To shift to the service based economy, we need more entrepreneurs who can bear
risks and undertake new activities that would contribute to national economy. This is why the
CSA has thought to promote arts, crafts and vocational cooperatives in local areas, to employ
rural young population and facilitate the vulnerable peasants to access the market with their
products, not as individuals but as cooperatives.

This proposal mainly targets the promotion of rural areas through the creation and provision of
new employments to rural young people. Hence, the major objective is to build the capacity of
local peasants, especially young people so as to eradicate poverty through the reduction of
unemployment and the enforcement of other economic activities.

This will be achieved by establishing a vocational cooperative union in every sector to employ
the labor from different vocational training centers (VTCs). The vocational cooperative union
will admit different vocational cooperatives of young people who have the same vocational
skills. These members will be motivated to work in solidarity and improve their wellbeing.

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Reasons/need for this project

On the list of the heavier problems that hinder the welfare, as expressed by rural people,
especially farming community, the most repeated is POVERTY which is regarded as the root of
the survival in developing countries. This poverty takes its roots in the following:

9. The culture of waiting for donations

10. Ignorance
11. Subsistence agriculture
12. Poor infrastructures
13. Low capacity in solving the basic problems/needs
14. Climate changes
15. Low capacity in starting his/her own business(Poor creativity)
16. Rich people who move from rural to urban areas
17. Lack of cooperation

MEMBERS’ CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT

All members of vocational cooperatives, which in return are member to the sector vocational
cooperative union, will achieve their goals and objectives due to their contribution o the project:

1. Giving their ideas in planning for the vocational cooperative and putting in place the
cooperative regulations and status
2. Every member will have to periodically save on his/her own account a little amount that
would enable him/her to get credit in local financial institution and /or to guarantee
his/her neighbor.
3. The project will operate in all villages of the sector and will continually mobilize people
to join vocational cooperative respectively to their skills.
4. Big capacity will come from the members’ contribution to the project by investing their
skills and labor as well as from their partners if any. Hence, joining vocational
cooperatives will help them acquire solidarity loans and credits from different banks that
usually provide such loans. Such loans would also help cooperatives to establish their
own markets for their output and to use technology in their crafts and other supportive
activities such as agriculture and livestock. Cooperatives will facilitate monitoring and
better cooperation with their partners and /or clients.
5. Vocational cooperative support members in their small business activities, to better
prepare their business plans so that these last may be financed by their banks or any
partner in the corresponding domain.

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6. Vocational cooperatives will help to better monitor the borrower because if the borrower
become successful, it build a good reputation to the cooperative and if (s)he fails, it
becomes the opposite
7. Vocational cooperatives will educate their members to work in transparency, in
democracy and to be honest and to get benefits from so doing. This is what helps them to
attract more partners and donors.
8. These institutions will also steer the understanding of locals to become hard working, to
more build a better reputation to neighbors, partners and other investors in the sector
development.

VII. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSAL

2.1 MAJOR OJECTIVES:

This project is aligned with entrepreneurship development, youth employment and social
inclusion/alternatives for vulnerable populations; hence the major objective is to build the
capacity of local peasants, especially young people so as to eradicate poverty through the
reduction of unemployment and the enforcement of other economic activities.

2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

4. Help local peasants, members of these cooperatives, get connected with banks and get
capital for other small businesses.
5. To build a better cooperation among development organs that would use such vocational
cooperatives as a tool for the achievement of their goals( local government, government
and non-government institutions and agencies, banks, local and international
organizations, etc)
6. To let these cooperatives serve as an example to the whole community and mobilize them
to join cooperatives according to their skills.

VIII. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN

E. Expected project results

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(n) This community project in the functioning and cooperation of crafts cooperatives has an
objective of eradicating poverty which is the major constraint of rural development. Every
member will be encouraged to hard work and periodically save a little amount of money that
would be helpful for the unpredicted future and to enable the peasant access the financial
services such as credits.
(o) This project will call upon the peasants to join solidarity cooperatives of people who
practice the same art, to even start the new businesses for their families. These activities
may include improved agriculture and animal rearing.
(p) In the beginning opinion leaders in all cells and villages will elect the administrative and
advisory committees of the crafts federation on the sector level. These committees will be in
charge of monitoring the federation and mobilize the community to join joint crafts
cooperatives, to evaluate federation transactions and to represent the federation in local
government and other development partners.
(q) The project will have its freedom in managing its wealth, not preventing it to cooperate with
local government to eradicate the most enemy that is poverty.
(r) The project will also cooperate with the Rwanda cooperative agency (RCA) as the organ is
charge of cooperative development. Hence advice from RCA will help to better perform in
cooperatives.
(s) In the sector welfare, this project will help peasant increase their income, work in solidarity
and attract more development partners. This will, in return, increase accumulated savings
per person which enable the peasant to acquire credits from local banks because monitoring
is quite easy. The borrower is monitored by his/her cooperative which cooperative is also
monitored by the federation on the sector level.
(t) In agriculture sector, the project will help its development, especially the crop
intensification program (CIP) because if agriculture is improved by investing more money
in it, rural farmers would also develop.
(u) Aligned with poverty eradication, especially in rural areas, the project will mobilize people
to work in cooperatives and get together empowered. It will also be a better tool to connect
the richer and the poorest by helping the poor people access the market with their outputs.

F. Project activities and work plan

The target population of this community project in the functioning and cooperation of
cooperative are all people residents of sectors, especially young crafts men/women. Among them
the great number will come from vocational training centers (VTCs) located in all sectors. These
participants will be encouraged to work as professionals.

To better cooperate, opinion leaders in all cells will establish a vocational federation on the
sector level and elect different mobilizes in all villages to mobilize people join vocational

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cooperatives. Vocational cooperatives will continually grow as vocational training centers

continue to train more and more. This increases the number of services rendered by vocational
cooperatives as the mobilization will also be kept on to increase members.

This project intends the following major activities:

11) Trainings for opinion leaders in analyzing challenges, capacity, possible solutions, to select
the most relevant vocations and to develop business plans for other businesses.
12) Preparation of documents for different organs of the project, to mobilize people work in
vocational cooperatives in different villages, starting from the most needed vocations.
13) Monitoring of the implementation of the project by every organ involved in the project.

G. Project Beneficiaries

The target population of this project is all rural vulnerable community, especially young people
from different vocational train centers (VTCs) who will get organize in cooperatives to join their
effort and gain the market share of their products. However, in addition to the community who
will benefit from the services rendered by vocational cooperatives, the vulnerable families will
also have an opportunity to access the market will their products.

H. Implementing agent management of project

Please refer to the previous section for information about community service association’s
administrative staff and support mechanisms. CSA will contribute in-kind a fiscal manager who
will oversee all grant funds.
CSA will contract with a company to provide enrichment program activities. The CSA will
contribute a project administrator who will oversee the company’s staff, program operations, and
financial management of all contracted funds. The sector will provide a staffer (program
coordinator) to continually oversee and arrange program activities, plan family events, maintain
evaluation and records for each vocational cooperative, coordinates field trips, staff trainings,
and meetings. This program coordinator will be the link between the steering committee and
activity leaders.
The Program Coordinator will also be a liaison for youth and families, helping them access
community services and resources through the CSA support staff that will assist the program
coordinator.

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A VTC facilitator/teacher will be hired part-time to be the link between daytime school
activities, the cooperative union and the community service association, coordinating facility use,
relaying discipline information, and mobilization activities. This individual will also serve as a
trainer for the cornerstone tutoring sessions. All training activities are reserved to the CSA whose
project administrator will supervise all CVCS grant funded staff, including trainers,
paraprofessionals, custodial support and maintenance.
A steering committee will be formed to involve community members, local government, VTC
students, participating agencies, school staff, and other key program partners. The steering
committee will meet monthly to review status reports, make recommendations for program
revisions and identify program barriers.
Detailed quarterly reports will be prepared by the Program Coordinator, and reviewed by the
steering committee.
CSA will establish a grants management team to oversee funds for the project, review required
reporting materials, and oversee program administration. While the steering committee will
provide the vision and direction for the project, the grants management team will be responsible
for handling the nuts-and-bolts administrative responsibilities (with input from the steering
committee). The Youth Advisory Team will meet monthly to provide to the coordinator and
recommend changes and adaptations for future program activities (Please see appendix for
management structure chart).
The CSA has planned and implemented a specific vocational training center, helping these
vocational cooperatives respond to specific community needs. This center will have to involve
parents, children, local businesses and community agencies, empowering these partners to have
“ownership" of the center. The District through the sector leadership will play a role of ensuring
that this center continues to focus on the mission of empowering the community. Our hope is to
involve a range of stakeholders in the project

IX.PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Please also refer to program objectives stated earlier in the proposal to see how the proposed
project is structured around evaluation and results-oriented outcomes. The Office of Planning
and Evaluation at CSA will provide a year-end evaluation for the project. This report is in
addition to the quarterly reports that will be prepared and submitted by the Project Coordinator to
the Steering Committee and Grants Management Team.
The year-end report will provide a detailed analytic comparison of all program activities,
including cooperative performances in content areas, attendance, and project achievement. The
reports will also evaluate how well the program has met the proposed objectives. All programs

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and activities will be examined, and recommendations will be made for program modifications,
as necessary. In general, the evaluation will examine how the program impacted the community.

The quarterly reports will allow parents, community residents, VTC students and staff, CSA
administration, and others to receive feedback on the success of the project, and develop
strategies to make adjustments to address issues and problems. They will outline participation in
vocational cooperatives, products and services offered comments from program participants and
observations by the coordinator and other staff.

X. PROJECT BUDGET

No ACTIVITIES COSTS in $

1 Training of sector opinion leaders on vocational cooperative operations 2028

2 Mobilization on vocational cooperatives 1183

3 Putting in place vocational cooperative/ cooperative union structures 376

4 Organizing meeting and preparation of necessary documents governing 1397

vocational cooperative union and/or cooperatives on the sector level

5 Acquisition of land and building the office for the vocational cooperative 6000
union

6 Provision of the necessary required materials for the cooperatives to start 4500
their daily activities

7 Approval of the above documents and official launch of the project 579

8 Printing these and other required documents 289

9 Evaluation and monitoring of the Century vocational community activities 7900

that is implemented through vocational cooperative union

10 Giving reports of activities performed in vocational cooperative union as 289

whole and handing over the project to the district

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10 TOTAL 24541

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TIME SHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

No ACTIVITIES WHO IS FIRS YEA

RESONSIBLE
1 2 3 4 5

1 Mobilization on vocational cooperatives CSA x x x x x

2 Putting in place vocational cooperative/ cooperative union structures Local Government x

Opinion Leaders

3 Training of sector opinion leaders on vocational cooperative CSA x x

operations

4 Organizing meeting and preparation of necessary documents CSA

governing vocational cooperative union and/or cooperatives on the
x x
sector level

5 Acquisition of land and building the office for the vocational CSA
cooperative union
x

6 Provision of the necessary required materials for the cooperatives to CSA x

start their daily activities

7 Printing these and other required documents Cooperative Union

Vocational
Cooperatives

x x x

8 Approval of the above documents and official launch of the project Vocational x
Cooperative Union

Local Government

Rwanda Cooperative
Agency ( RCA)

CSA

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9 Giving reports of activities performed in vocational cooperative union Vocational x x x x x

as whole and handing over the project to the district Cooperative
Union/Cooperatives

10 Evaluation and monitoring of the Century vocational community CSA

activities that is implemented through vocational cooperative union

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