Tag: M-SAWA

Canada’s Minister of International Development Visits MEDA Kenya: A Closer Look at Sustainable Coffee Farming in Kenya

September 8, 2023

MEDA’s Leveraging Equality for Gender-Inclusive Economic Development (LEGEND) project had the privilege of hosting the Honorable Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of International Development. The Minister visited the lead firm, Caffe Del Duca Ltd (CDDL) for a courtesy call and discussed the benefits of the firm’s collaboration with the GAC-funded MEDA M-SAWA project.

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Water is precious: let’s protect it on World Water Day 2023

March 22, 2023

On March 22, 2023 at the UN Headquarters in New York City, the first global UN conference on water in 46 years will be held. The conference aims to build new commitments, pledges and actions by Governments and all stakeholders towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, and water-related targets across all SDGs, in order to move us collectively towards the Water Action Agenda.

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Entrepreneurs are finding success in Kenya through the M-SAWA project

February 2, 2023

Agriculture pays the bills in Kenya, supporting 80% of the country’s population. However, small businesses and farmers in Kenya often lack access to the business supports they need to prosper. Without access to technology, agricultural inputs, business services, and finance businesses and farmers in Kenya struggle to get by. Women-led businesses often face even stricter challenges.

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Why harnessing local knowledge is best- a conversation among project staff from Kenya and the Philippines

October 14, 2022

To better explain MEDA’s transformational journey towards embracing a North-South equilibrium and developing partnerships that are based on delivering systems-level impacts in agri-food systems, Catherine Sobrevega (Country Director, Philippines) and Geoffrey Juma (Country Director, Kenya) sat down with Jessica Villanueva, Senior Director, Technical Areas of Practice to reflect in their own words how their work addresses current trends in international development and contributes to the goals espoused by MEDA’s Strategic Plan.

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The large role micro, small and medium-sized enterprises play in the world

June 27, 2022

As the global economy struggles to emerge from the hardships of a lengthy pandemic and ongoing conflict, hopes for recovery will rest largely on the resilience of micro, small-and-medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Fast-growing SMEs in particular are the biggest job creators – they tend to use more labor-intensive processes compared to larger enterprises, which encourages employment and can lead to more equitable income distribution.

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Promoting Sustainable Bioenergy in Kenya – Briq-O-Blaze Briquettes

January 21, 2022

Through MEDA’s M-SAWA project, funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), TCP is providing 15-20 alternative fuel producer (50% women led) enterprises with training, mentorship, financial support, technical support, online resources, and access to a network of entrepreneurs to generate a positive economic and environmental impact by displacing use of traditional wood charcoal.

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Supporting Inter-generational Rice Farming in Kenya

January 21, 2022

Lucas Odhiambo Oduor has been a rice farmer since childhood, supporting his grandfather and father’s farming business. Now in his early thirties, Lucas is a married father of 3 children. As the first born in his family he is also responsible for supporting his parents and siblings.

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