Africa

Food security: Innovative solutions for rice value chain in Guinea Bissau

With business linkages, multi-stakeholders platforms and technical assistance, 10 000 farmers of Bafata Region will increase their rice quality and quantity and ensure their food security.

Read more about the multi-country food security capability statement

Renewable energy

Making clean energy accessible to low income households.

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Global Renewable Energy office opens in Burkina

With innovation as our key focus, we are engaged in expanding our work in Renewable Energy from Asia into Africa, focusing on biogas, biomass, improved cook stoves, solar electricity and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Read more

Our work in water, sanitation and hygiene

We contribute to improved WASH service delivery, specifically:
1. Access to safe, sufficient and reliable drinking water supply
2. Access to improved sanitation
3. Sustained positive change in hygiene behaviour

Promoting Inclusive Business

SNV facilitates a Technical Assistance Facility in Mozambique that assists companies to identify, develop and implement Inclusive Business.

Open the Inclusive Business website

Revitalising Zimbabwe's agriculture sector

Through the Rural Agriculture Revitalisation Programme, Agro-dealers were linked to wholesellers and manufacturers who provided consignment stock for farm inputs reaching thousands of households in eight rural provinces of Zimbabwe.

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SNV in Africa: People, Partnership, Progress

21 May 2013
A new publication opens a window on the struggles and successes of SNV's work around Africa.
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Waste not, want not

17 May 2013
Recycling is helping solve Bamako’s waste problem – while bringing benefits to the capital’s poor.
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Empowering women in the oilseed business: the P’KWI women's cooperative

17 May 2013
The story of a women's group that dared to make a difference and how it transformed its members' lives.
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"Biogas has made me forget my disability"

29 April 2013
After losing a leg to illness, biogas has helped restore independence to Ugandan nurse Zura Chemonges.
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Africa

SNV has been present in Africa since 1967, working with local communities to improve their livelihood by strengthening the capacities of local organisations. Our advisors work hand-in-hand with local organisations to bring together innovation and experience coupled with in-depth knowledge and understanding of local context.

In Africa, SNV works in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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