Rwanda has experienced a severe impoverished of its population, particularly women, due to the genocide, but lately has has made significant progress in stabilizing and rehabilitating its economy. The training programme for women entrepreneurs will equip them with skills to boost their businesses in improve their incomes. The trainees will return to their communities on completing the course to train other women in the skills they have acquired. Apart from fertile soils, the country has few natural resources and minimal industry.
Primary exports are coffee and tea.
Food processing is one way the national government hopes to add value to cheap agricultural produce, thereby increasing household incomes. Texts and graphics may be reproduced freely, under the condition that their origin is clearly referred to, see Conditions .