REDO PRESENTATION Damascene Gashumba Kigali, 4 November 2015

1. REDO PRESENTATION
• founded in 1999 .
•Area of intervention: community conservation around VNP
and NNP
• The overall program of REDO, is called: TEAMS
•T ree planting
•E nvironment awareness and research
•A griculture
•M icroprojects (like bee keeping, arts, goats etc,)
•Social integration of Historically Marginalised People(HMP)
Rural Environment and Development Organization (REDO)
(Act together towards a green Environment, Peace and development)
P.O. Box: 7067 Kigali-Rwanda
E-mail: info@redo.org.rw/ inforedo@yahoo.com
Web site: www.redo.org.rw
Tel: +250 789111130(Office) & +250 788408910 (Mobile)

2. vision
• . REDO : A society where the rural communities sustain
the integrated development through the use of available
natural resources without compromising the ecological
structures
Objetives:
• To champion environmental education and public
awareness for sustainability in the country and in the
great lakes region.
• To instil environmental concerns from grass root to
national level
• To work towards poverty eradication through a
participatory sustainable approach.
• To integrate HMP into community

3. Beekeeping for VNP Conservation and livelihoods improvement
Proposed
interventions
Current situation
-High demographic pressure
-Poor agricure production
-Poor livelihoods
-Environment destruction
-Lack of capital for women to
initiate enterprise
-Limited involvement of
women in beekeeping
Inputs
-Beekeeping modern techniques
promotion
-Beekeeping value chain
development
-Economic linkages
Outputs
-Beekeeping modern techniques well applied
-Increased number of women involved in
beekeeping
-Beekeeping products availed on the local
Market
Improved
livelihoods
Honey
Current
situation
Women participating in sustainable
livelihood thru production, income
and employment generated by bee
products

4. Beekeeping sector specific limitations in Volcanoes area
• Farmers more recipients than markets key players
• Coops remain dependent on slow and inconsistent local
sales
• Low Production : only 4,050 Tons harvested annually .
The total demand is about 13,800 Tons per year ( Source
: MINAGRI)
• High cost of inputs, which affect competiveness (
beekeeping equipment and honey packaging material
that are imported)
• Donor’s funding opportunities to support the beekeeping
program

5. 5 Title
Lessons learnt: Beekeeping could became a way of poverty
alleviation and biodiversity conservation:
Proposed Simplified inclusive business model
Certified Beehive makers & other
Inputs supply
Bee Promoters
Whole sellers
Exporters Banks& MFIs
Beekeepers
cooperative
BK groups Individuals BK
ProcessorsREDO + other
stakeholder
EU and other
international markets
Boutiques

6. ASANTE SANA,MURAKOZE
CYANEE, MERCI,THANKS!!!!!!!!!!