1. Project name: One small Enterprise ’’1SE’’
Team name: Learn 4m your Weaknesses
Ruhengeri Institute of Higher Education
Musanze, Northern Provice
Rwanda

2. L4M Your Weaknesses ’’Overview’’
Morocco Tunesia
Algeria
Rwanda
MUSANZE
Cameroon
Burundi
DR Congo
Africa Tanzania
Zambia
Botswana Increase Gender inequity
Professional/Technical Skill Lost Drugs abuse & HIV/AIDS
Drop out of Sciences
RUHENGERI Institute o
school Applied Sciences
Solution1: Tourism
EXODUS
Ltd Vocational Solution3: Food
Solution2: Arts
Crafts
Training Centres processing
(VCTs) Ltd off farming jobs

3. Rwanda – Musanze Profile
Genocide in 1994 1 After 1994: Current governance
≠
million killed ≠structures demonstrated better
(Former leadership leadership with principles of
based on exclusion) equity and strategic socio-
economic development policies
The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy II (EDPRS II), is aamedium
The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy II (EDPRS II), is medium
term development that lays out aafour year (2013-2017) development plan to move one step
term development that lays out four year (2013-2017) development plan to move one step
closer to reaching Rwanda vision 2020 objectives.
closer to reaching Rwanda vision 2020 objectives.
The Vision 2020 seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into aamiddle-income country
The Vision 2020 seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into middle-income country
by the year 2020.
by the year 2020.
For
For
10,537,222 People out of
10,537,222 People out of 1,729,927 people/North
1,729,927 people/North 368,563 people/Musanze
368,563 people/Musanze
26,338 Km2 (Rwanda)
26,338 Km2 (Rwanda) Province
Province District
District
90% dependent on
90% dependent on 3,256 Ruhengeri Institute
3,256 Ruhengeri Institute 31,970 People
31,970 People
agriculture activities to
agriculture activities to of Applied Sciences
of Applied Sciences Musanze/Sector
Musanze/Sector
survive.

4. Profile cont.
Agriculture is the lifeblood of 91% of the population in
Musanze District.
One Tow big industries: Pyrethrum & Wheat Factory
Touristic district with Volcanoes National Parks home to
800 Mountain Gorillas.

5. One Small Enterprise 1SE
1. How do youth in Musanze envisage their Future?
2. What kind of community do they want to see and become?
3. How can they raising their voice to fight unemployment using
their available resources?
4. What are the transformations needs to impact positively their
community?
These are main questions the project named: ‘’1SE’’ would like to
address.

6. 1SE cont.,
Overall Objective:
The 1SE aims at enabling youth to strengthen Entrepreneurship skills by
making them aware of use available resources to sustain their
livelihoods
Specific Objectives:
1. Bring together and encourage youth to be innovative, creative and focus on
existing opportunities in Food processing, Tourism and Handcarts.
2. Encourage youth to be self dependent by creating profit organization and
install a culture of saving for their future;
3. To initiate cooperative with local, national, regional and international
Enterprises to strengthen the project sustainability.

7. 1SE Solution One
Tourism Sector: Arts and Crafts via a dynamic website
Available market:
Travel and tourism Agencies:
Airlines, Hotels, Motels, car rental Companies
Website users: tourists, business, Leisure,
events, sports and other travellers,
Creating jobs to approximately 250 youth by 2016

8. 1 SE Solution 2:
Food Processing sector:
Available market:
Hotels, Motels, schools, public and private instituttions
Create jobs for approximately 350 youth by 2016

9. References:
1. Department of Land Survey, Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) Laboratory for maps.
2. Musanze District website

10. References:
1. Department of Land Survey, Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) Laboratory for maps.
2. Musanze District website