Dear Partners and Visitors worldwide;
We welcome you to UGAMA CSC website in response to the need of a powerful medium in current affairs, long exposed by its partners of all kind, UGAMA has now launched a website as an indispensable medium for its internal as well as external development. The "Cooperatives Support Organization" UGAMA is local NGO committed to rural development activities in supporting local cooperatives in Rwanda. UGAMA CSC wants to take advantage of this opportunity to express its heart- felt gratitude to those who, in a way or another, contributed significantly to its progress.
History
Long years ago, Agricultural production in RWANDA was mostly for on-farm consumption sometimes farmers used to organize themselves into groups and cooperatives to satisfy some of their needs such as, to sell they production together, obtain a better price, buy and cultivate collective fields, create employment in the crafts, and so on.
Target groups
UGAMA CSC collaborates with Southern Province cooperatives (9 in KAMONYI, 8 in MUHANGA and 9 in RUHANGO District). They exercise various activities and beneficiaries of UGAMA services are: Agricultural cooperatives that unite more than 24.000 members and Food processing Cooperatives.
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Mission
The main goal of UGAMA is “The cooperatives and groupings must be partners and valid negotiators among other socio-economic actors”. This goal aims at three objectives: 1. Increase and improve the real and active participation of the members in their society's progress.
Interventions
UGAMA CSC has been created to support cooperatives and groupings which are autonomous organizations, completely responsible for their own business and UGAMA CSC provide them advices, helps them to analyze their situation, look for financial means to support the implementation of their project programs.
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