IITA South-Kivu hosts AID-I GLR project evaluation workshop

The IITA led Great Lakes Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative Rapid Delivery Hub (AID-I GLR) project for the dissemination of agricultural innovations in the Great Lakes region, organized a workshop with the project’s various implementing partners between 4 and 5 December 2024. The workshop held in the New Riviera Hotel in Bukavu evaluated the project’s second year of implementation, drawing lessons from activities, while learning how to improve interventions and plan activities for the first quarter of 2025.

Each partner – RIKOLTO, VSF, Support and capacity-building services for women’s self-promotion (SARCAF), SAWBO, ILRI, IRRI, and CIP – presented the various achievements accomplished during year 2024, while drawing up their work plans for the next agricultural season.

Several technologies have been disseminated in the various villages spread over six territories in the province of South Kivu, with the aim of improving yields of food crops (cassava, banana, rice, maize, beans) and market garden crops. These technologies also promote practices such as artificial insemination, the manufacture of lick blocks, and the establishment of high-nutrition forage crops for livestock farmers.

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