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  • Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
  • Rwanda

Increasing availability, access, and consumption of animal-sourced foods in Rwanda

Feed the Future Orora Wihaze Activity

Despite the country’s extraordinary achievements in the health sector, stunting rates in Rwanda remain stubbornly high. A majority of households in Rwanda do not regularly consume animal-sourced foods that is a critical source of nutrition children.  The Feed the Future Rwanda Orora Wihaze Activity works to increase consumption of foods that provide vital nutrients and play an important role in cognitive development. Orora Wihaze works with local partners and private sector actors in Rwanda to strengthen the animal-sourced foods market system. In Kinyarwanda, "Orora Wihaze" translates to "raising animals for self-sufficiency." True to its name, the activity supports animal-sourced food producer and consumer households in eight districts of Rwanda to sustainably increase the availability of, access to, and consumption of animal-sourced foods by spurring market development. Orora Wihaze strengthens private-sector-led value chains and increases demand for animal-sourced foods to help people access nutritious food -- with a focus on increasing the nutritional status of women of reproductive age and children. Orora Wihaze uses evidence-driven approaches to source, incubate, scale, and replicate innovative solutions to address root constraints in the market system that hamper animal-sourced food production and consumption, while boosting market access to rural areas.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE AMAZING RESULTS:
180,250
individuals participating in food security activities
$82,579,707
of farmers trained applying new technologies
$16,202,080
in new agriculture related finance accessed

THREE FOCUS AREA

Strengthening Animal-Sourced Food Markets:

Orora Wihaze drives change throughout Rwanda’s animal-sourced food market systems by derisking market-driven investments for ASF products, facilitating linkages between market actors;  increase access to financial services and supporting a policy environment that enables private-sector driven market transformation.

Improving Women and Children’s Nutritional Status:

Orora Wihaze is improving women and children’s nutritional status by increasing knowledge of nutritional and health benefits of animal-sourced foods, increasing access to appropriate and affordable products, and empowering women to make nutrition decisions in the household.

Partnering with the Pivate Sector:

The activity works with private sector partners across the value chain to ensure sustainable outcomes for Rwanda’s markets beyond the life of the program. Orora Wihaze is committed to enhancing the productivity of market actors in livestock production by facilitating access to quality inputs, extension service, tailored financial products and stronger market linkages.

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What is an Outcome Harvest and what did it show about Feed the Future Orora Wihaze?

Purpose: This assessment aimed to discover outcomes that have transpired, particularly system changes, and Orora Wihaze's contributions to these changes. The assessment does this by combining Outcome Harvesting (OH) as a research method and the Disrupting Systems Dynamics Framework (DSD) as an analytical tool.
  1.  Increased Flow of Information: There is an improved network between market actors, characterized by increased information flow.
  2. Increased Flow of Material Goods: Through these new network interactions, there is also an increased flow of material goods.
  3. Strengthened Cooperation: There is strengthened network connectivity, new relationship diversity, and cooperation between market actors, who now have renewed expectations of each other's roles.


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