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Rwanda USAID Ejo Heza

Published 10/05/2014 by Global Communities

Rwanda USAID Ejo Heza
The USAID Integrated Improved Livelihoods Program (ILLP), commonly known as “Ejo Heza”, is an integrated development program designed to help meet Feed the Future’s global mandate to sustainably reduce global hunger and the Government of Rwanda’s (GOR) goals to increase agricultural production and improve nutrition.
USAID Ejo Heza focuses in four main areas: improving adult literacy, providing access to financial services, increasing agricultural production and improved health and nutrition.
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