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)

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

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

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 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

ExportersBanks& MFIs

Beekeepers

cooperative

BK groups Individuals BK

ProcessorsREDO + other

stakeholder

EU and other

international markets

Boutiques

ASANTE SANA,MURAKOZE

CYANEE, MERCI,THANKS!!!!!!!!!!