Microenterprise Development
Rural farmers cannot create and maintain livelihoods without access to affordable capital and markets.
IIRR’s asset-building and wealth creation work currently focuses on Value Chain Development and Linkages and EARN + LEARN programs encouraging on-going education hand-in-hand with micro-enterprise and business development/micro-credit.
IIRR’s formerly worked with the Kenya MicroFund program to provide micro grants and concomitant business development services to thirteen community-based organizations (CBOs) in western Kenya whose members are engaged in agro-based microenterprise activities, thus enhancing food security and reducing poverty. The CBOs have created revolving loan funds, which can be tapped for investment in member-owned microenterprises some of which include milk processing, fish and poultry farming, oil processing, vegetable gardening and goat-tending.
