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Nile Basin Club "NBC" is a Non-Governmental Organization registered under Rwandan Law that provide Education for Sustainable Development "ESD" to women and youth by creating opportunities that promote their self-sufficiency towards a sustainable future. NBC was founded in 2012 and since has been contribution in Poverty and Environmental Climate change alleviation.

Our interventions are planned and implemented in close collaboration with key partners including the Farmers Organizations, the Local Government, the Ministry of Gender & Family Promotion "MIGEPROF, the New Partnership for Africa's Development "NEPAD" , UN-WOMEN and others.

Address & Contact

NILE BASIN CLUB NBC

P.O Box: 3158 Kigali-Rwanda

KK 492 ST, DIAMOND HOUSE, 3RD FLOOR

Tel.: (+250) 788307082

Website: www.nilebasinclub.org

E-mail: info@nilebasinclub.org
nilebasinclub@gmail.com

Twitter: @ClubNbc

Youtube: NBCTV

About Our Identity

Our vision, mission and values make us unique when it comes to empower women and youth to change their way of thinking and work towards a sustainable future.

Our Vision

Promote Education for Sustainable Development "ESD" to women and youth by creating opportunities that promote their self-sufficiency towards a sustainable future.

Our Mission

Improve access to quality education on sustainable development by empowering young people and women smallholder farmers & their families to develop the knowledge, skills, values and behaviors necessary for sustainable development.

Our Values

The core value of NBC is underpinned by the following five valuses colled "SPACE"

Solidarity
Passion
Accountability
Confidentiality
Empowerment

Our Objectives

Raise awareness on environmental preservation through agro-forestry & horticulture, soil erosion control, reforestation and use of renewable energies (solar & biogas)
Promote primary, secondary and higher education of youth
Publish “@SCHOOL NILE ENVIRO MAGAZINE” on quarterly basis
Promote peace among youth through entertainment and sensitization meetings
Train youth on entrepreneurship through “youth saving groups”
Strengthening farmers’ organization through the promotion of a sustainable market oriented agriculture integrated to livestock

Our Programs

Compost Making

Distribution of Bean Seeds rich in Iron for demo plots

Climate Smart Agriculture

We equip small-scale women farmers & their families with the skills and knowledge they need to earn a sustainable income and ensure food security.

The farmers are trained on how to grow food and cash crops using Climate Smart Agriculture Practices.

Women producers are helped to be organized into Self-Helped Groups for easy training delivery, financial & market access, and increased bargaining power.

Cooperative President with NBC Liaison Officer

First Cooperative General Assembly meeting

Election of the new Cooperative Leaders

NBC Staff explaining beneficiaries on the project objectives

Farmers during Self Helped Group formation

Group Saving and Lending meeting

Women Financial Inclusion

We support women to create Saving & Lending Groups that enable them cover financial needs and initiate income generating activities.

This will help them to increase income, builds assets and reduce vulnerability.

Completed Kitchen Garden after training

Training on nutrition Rabbit and Hen Farming

Kitchen Garden

Nutrition & Sanitation

Families are trained on how to prepare a good & balanced diet.

They are trained on Kitchen Garden Technology (Home Gardening) and supported on rabbit farming through "RABBIT TO EVERY FAMILY PROGRAM" to enable households get animal proteins.

In addition, farmers get cash from rabbit and crops selling.

We also train and coach families on essential hygiene practices and empower them to pay health insurance every year.

Women empowerment

NBC President during awareness workshop

Gender, Youth & Child Rights sensitization meeting

Youth Empowerment

Gender, Youth & Child Rights

Cultural & Social norms limit women’s to participate in household and community development.

Also, unequal levels of decision-making and Gender Based Violence "GBV" often dissuade women from participating in livelihood development.

Families are trained on how to fight against GBV.

Parents are reminded to send their children to school and avoid child labor.

We equip orphans with tools and training to overcome life-threatening poverty for good.

@School Nile Enviro Magazine Special Edition

@School Nile Enviro Magazine Third Edition

@School NILE Enviro Magazine

To fight against climate change issues and increase environmental awareness in schools, Nile Basin Club has initiated “@SCHOOL NILE ENVIRO MAGAZINE” that is published at quarterly basis.

The magazine educates youth at school on how they can tackle climate change issues in the community they live.

The youth is encouraged to plant trees to protect soils against erosion.

Trees are also a source of fuel, food, fodder, compost, building materials and even medicines.

A Farmer trainer happy to receive clean energy

NBC Staff handling over SHS & ICS to farmer trainer

SHS has 3 lamps to illuminate 3 rooms

Solar distribution

Supplied SHS & ICS

The Cooperative President receiving more the SHS

NBC Staff showing how the SHS works

The Farmer Trainer showing how she knows to operate the SHS

Farmers Trainers happy to receive clean energy for cooking and lightning

Clean Energy

In Rwanda many households rely on kerosene lamps and candles to light their homes. They also use firewood to cook their food. This contributes to environmental degradation by cutting trees and increase pollution. Cutting trees has a negative impact on rain availability for agriculture and livestock.

The fumes produced pollute the environment and affect negatively the human health.

To get connected, people must power their radios or phones and often travel long distances to charge batteries.

Nile Basin Club has supported poor families to get Solar Lanterns than can charge radio and phone. Also, they got Clean Cooking Stoves. The use of clean energy has a great impact not only on Sustainable Agriculture (increased rainfall) and health improvement but also on child education because the time that was previously reserved to children to collect firewood is used for lessons revision.

Our Achievements so far

Key Achievements

Nile Basin Club is scaling up a project of “Empowering women smallholder farmers to increase food production through climate smart agriculture practices in Rwanda” through “GCCASP” (Gender Climate Change in Agriculture Support Programme) has started in early December 2018.

The project is being implemented through KOPABIIJA cooperative located in Ngoma District, Jarama Sector, Eastern Province of Rwanda.

The pilot project was fund by NEPAD and its scaling-up is now supported by UN-WOMEN through the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion "MIGEPROF".

Key Achievements

Supported the formation of the Cooperative for Fruits & Vegetables of Jarama (KOPABIIJA in Kinyarwanda abbreviation) in which and

The cooperative counts 484 members
474 are women (97.9%)
10 are men (2.1%)

Cooperative members supported to be organized into 25 Self-Helped Groups for easy training, financial & agro-inputs access and increased bargaining powers

Key Achievements

75 Women lead farmers trained of compost making to improve soil fertility
75 Women smallholder farmers trained on beans rich in iron and maize farming using Climate Smart Agriculture Practices
484 households trained of Kitchen garden technology
25 Self-Helped Groups initiated "Saving for the Future program" counting a cash flow of 5,664,630 Rwf within 2 years only.