Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
Target Impact
Educate 220 young people through transformative agricultural training, aiming to support at least 20 percent of them in creating business start-ups. Furthermore, extend innovative training approaches to 15 additional universities and collaborate with the RUFORUM Network to exchange knowledge and adopt innovative training practices.
Status: Active
Country
Uganda
Period
2016-2025
Industries
Agriculture
Education & Skills
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Impact to Date
567
Young people have accessed transformative agricultural university education.
216
Start-ups created by young people have enabled 1,000 jobs.
79,000
Farmers directly reached with technologies, innovations, and management practices by universities.
1,000
Out-of-school youth skilled through TVETs and 12,000 participants skilled through 125 learning events.
21
Universities directly implement innovative training approaches and provide lessons to 142 others.
Partnership Focus
Pilot a new model of agricultural education at early adopter universities.
Strengthen agribusiness/entrepreneurship at two universities and selected Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions.
Scale the new model for agricultural education to other agricultural universities and TVET institutions
Increase collaboration and mutual learning among institutions and agencies in tertiary agricultural education.
In Partnership With
The RUFORUM is a consortium of 163 universities operating within 40 countries in Africa and headquartered in Uganda. The consortium supports universities to address the important and largely unfulfilled role that they play in contributing to the well‐being of small‐scale farmers and the economic development of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, RUFORUM is implementing the Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development (TAGDev) project to train competent and highly skilled African youth. The program also develops the capacities of African universities to effectively train and nurture graduates with relevant skills to respond to developmental challenges through enhanced application of science, technology, business, and innovation for rural agricultural transformation.