The Rural Youth Employment Support (R-YES)/ Menya Wigire Project is a 5-year initiative (2020 -2025) implemented by Kilimo Trust in partnership with Rwanda Polytechnic (RP), Rwanda TVET Board (RTB), and Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (RYAF) with funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Visa Foundation, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to build technical and entrepreneurial skills for sustainable youth employment (wage and self) in agribusiness. R-YES Project targets to support 1,200 youth (50% female) from 16 target districts including: North (Gicumbi, Rulindo, and Musanze), West (Nyabihu, Rubavu, and Rusizi), South (Nyanza, Ruhango, Gisagara, Kamonyi and Huye), and East (Nyagatare, Kayonza, Rwamagana, Ngoma, and Bugesera). Goal and Objectives: The goal of the R-YES project is to create sustainable employment (self and decent wage) opportunities for 3,000 youth (50% female) in agribusiness (12,000 directly and 1,800 indirectly).
Project Objectives:
• Building integrated agribusiness capacities of rural youth
• Generating empirical evidence of the developed and tested models to inform policy to drive scaling up of the models to create jobs for youth. The R-YES project aims at delivering the following transformations:
• A robust system that empowers and nurtures youth for self and wage employment in agribusinesses that ensures the protection of natural resources so that they continue to provide required environmental/ecosystem services.
• New youth-led agribusiness enterprises are emerging, thus providing an avenue for self-employment and stimulating labour demand for wage employment.
• Holistic wage-seeking R-YES graduates absorbed in evolving agribusiness labour markets. • Policy improvements and scale-up of proven models by governments and other development partners
See Terms Of Reference (TOR) Document
Mode of application:
All required documents must be written in English and submitted electronically in one folder to recruitment@kilimotrust.org not later than 17th April 2025 before 5 pm EAT.
Late submissions will be rejected. The Prospective Consultant MUST indicate in the Email subject:” Terms of Reference for Consultancy Assignment – End-Line Evaluation of the R-YES Project in Rwanda "