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Community transformation through the promotion of professional Cooperatives and SMEs

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Working with Cooperatives, CBOs and SMEs involves a lot of activities on the field.
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Musanze: 88 Participants Strengthen Skills in Financial Literacy and Business Management

Musanze: 88 Participants Strengthen Skills in Financial Literacy and Business Management

A total of 88 participants from 15 groups drawn from the districts of Gicumbi, Rulindo, Gakenke, Burera and Musanze are attending a two-day training in Muhoza Sector, Musanze District, aimed at strengthening their knowledge in asset management, financial literacy, and business management. The training is organized by UGAMA in partnership with Heifer International through the PRISM project. It targets Self-Help…

Musanze: Abagera kuri 88 Bari Gukarishya Ubumenyi ku Icungamutungo, Imikoreshereze y’Imari n’Imicungire y’Ubucuruzi

Musanze: Abagera kuri 88 Bari Gukarishya Ubumenyi ku Icungamutungo, Imikoreshereze y’Imari n’Imicungire y’Ubucuruzi

Abagera kuri 88 baturuka mu matsinda 15 yo mu turere twa Gicumbi, Rulindo, Gakenke, Burera na Musanze bari mu mahugurwa y’iminsi ibiri ari kubera mu Murenge wa Muhoza mu Karere ka Musanze, agamije kubongerera ubumenyi mu bijyanye n’icungamutungo, imikoreshereze y’imari ndetse n’imicungire y’ubucuruzi. Aya mahugurwa yateguwe kubufatanye hamwe na   UGAMA na  Heifer International Rwanda  binyuze mu mushinga wa PRISM. Ahawe…

Ubwizigame bwejo hazaza ntibuva kubyo usaguye.UGAMA yahwituye abagize amatsinda mato n’amanini kucyitwa Ubwizigame.

Ubwizigame bwejo hazaza ntibuva kubyo usaguye.UGAMA yahwituye abagize amatsinda mato n’amanini kucyitwa Ubwizigame.

Ibi  byagarutsweho n’ubuyobozi bwa UGAMA  i Huye kuri uyu wa 02 Kamena 2026 ubwo, hatangizwaga  amahugurwa yiminsi 2  yahuje abantu 108 bagize  za komite n’abafashamyumvire mu matsinda/amahuriro 45 yatoranyijwe mu turere 15 dukorerwamo n’umushinga PRISM ku bufatanye hagati ya UGAMA na HEIFER international binyuze mu mushinga PRISM. Ni amahugurwa ari kubera  mu nzu mberabyombi ya centre d’Aceuil Mere du Verbe…

Cooperatives Set for New Training Programs

A team from UGAMA composed of the Executive Director, Program Manager, and Access to Finance Officer visited Heifer International Rwanda for a strategic meeting aimed at discussing the findings from the cooperative profiling activity and preparing for the continuation of the training activities. The meeting held on  26th  May2026 and was conducted with the heifer  internationalRwanda team composed of the…

Ubwiza bw’umukobwa nibwo bumuzanira  abamurambagiza!

Ubwiza bw’umukobwa nibwo bumuzanira abamurambagiza!

Ibi byavuzwe na FURAHA  Jean de Dieu, umuyobozi ushinwe gahunda muri UGAMA mu ruzinduko yagiriye kuri koperative ABIBUMBYE Kamonyi. Ni uruzinduko UGAMA yagiriye kuri  koperative ABIBUMBYE Kamonyi kuri uyu wa 22 Gicurasi 2026,igizwe n’amakoperative 4 yishyize hamwe , aho bari gusuzuma no kurebera hamwe imikorere nimikoreshereze y’isoko  ry’ubugeni  ‘’IBIRAMBYE SHOP “ riherereye mu Murenge wa Gacurabwenge, iyi koperative yahawe na…

Information from satellite technology is set to help farmers in the Makera wetland increase their agricultural productivity.

Information from satellite technology is set to help farmers in the Makera wetland increase their agricultural productivity.

The formal collaboration between UGAMA Rwanda and Digital Earth Africa marks a strategic shift from traditional, resource-intensive in situ data collection to advanced Earth Observation (EO) technologies as highlited by Executive director of UGAMA on this May 15th By combining UGAMA’s extensive community footprint in agricultural extension with Digital Earth Africa’s cloud-native big data capabilities, the partnership directly addresses climate-related…

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We Have The Power Today To Change Tomorrow!

Umuryango wo Gushyigikira AMAkoperative in acronyms UGAMA, is National Non-Governmental Organization for Supporting to Cooperatives and Community-Based organizations (CBOs) and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). UGAMA was created on July 1st, 1985 by the Centre of cooperatives trainings and research (IWACU), and COOPBBU a Belgian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). In the beginning it was known as CSC (Centre de Service aux Coopératives) and it was set as a Centre to provide services to cooperatives and groupings for helping them to manage better their joint ventures, to reach the necessary technical knowledge and financial means so that they can better reach the member’s aims.

What We Do

Contribute to the increase of the standard of living and the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of the community through the development of cooperatives.

Capacity Development of Cooperatives.

Cooperatives are economically sustainable and professionally managed and responsive to their members and neighboring communities.

Technical and institutional capacity.

UGAMA is professionally and sustainably managed in terms of technical aspects, resource management and partnership.

Action-research.



The socio-economic experiments of UGAMA and targeted cooperatives are capitalized and replicated.



Climate Justice, technology and social inclusion.

UGAMA & targeted cooperatives have capacity to sustainably addressing issues related to climate justice, technology & social inclusion towards their development activities.

The Team

HABANABASHAKA Malachie - Coordinator of UGAMA

HABANABASHAKA Malachie

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MUHIMPUNDU Espérance

Administration and Finance

FURAHA Jean de Dieu - Program Coordinator

FURAHA
Jean de Dieu

ProgramS MANAGER

NIKWIGIZE Remy

MEAL Specialist

GWIZA Fidele

IT and digitization

UTUJE Peace Adelaïde - Program Assistant

UTUJE
Peace Adelaïde

Gender & YOUTH ENGAGEMEnT

HATEGEKIMANA
Jean Claude

Business Capacity Development

NSANZUMUHIRE
Reverien

financial management

NDUWAYO
Ephrem

cOOPERATIVE Governance

RUCOGOZA
Liliane

Accountant

Technical Support

Technical Support in a tree nursery.

Technical Support

Technical Support in level terraces

Food Security

Harvesting and conservation of tomatoes for food security and good nutrition.

Income Generation.

Industrial transformation for food income generation towards wealth of cooperative’s members.

Environment Protection

Encouraging tree nursary to avail seedlings for fighting against climate change and food insecurity by planting fruit and non-fruit trees.

WHY WE ARE BEST

Why Choose Us?

Cooperatives, The Development Driver.
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  • We seek to drive change on large scale

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