July 5, 2018
IES conducts an eco- friendly farm businesses study
In 2018, IES is conducting a study focusing on eco- friendly farm businesses. The study reports that farm businesses face challenges of innovation, market access and suitable finance.
Feb 2, 2020
IES initiates a socio-economic project
As part of its socio-economic objective and based on the results, IES is initiating a socio-economic project to provide technical and financial support to young people and women entrepreneurs working in the agricultural sector. This project aims at improving the financial inclusion of women and young people, smallholders and small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises in the eastern region of the DRC.
July 15, 2021
Agro Eco-Village NGO is created
Under the impulsion of the social enterprise Innovations et Entrepreneuriat Social, the undersigned founders and co-founders have decided to create the NGO Agro-EcoVillage in July 2022. Its aim is to facilitate and co-create sustainable development in the agricultural sectors, Health, Education, Housing and Environmental Sanitation in order to combat multidimensional poverty in Congolese households and climate change.
Over this year, Agro-Ecovillage has chosen to intervene mainly in four areas: (1) Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Finance, (2) Green Microfinance, (3) Agricultural and Forestry Value Chains and (4) Basic Social Services in rural areas (Health, Water, Education, Housing and Green Energy).
November 1, 2023
Innovation and learning at the center of everything
In 2023, Agro-EcoVillage decided to put innovation and learning at the center of everything it does. Thus, every project implemented by Agro-EcoVillage goes through the testing stage before being scaled up. The implementation of an Agro-EcoVillage project follows four stages:
(1) Identifying the needs of target populations,
(2) Prospecting for innovative, sustainable and accessible solutions
(3) Design, implementation and testing of a pilot micro-project based on identified innovative, sustainable and accessible solutions,
(4) Scale-up of the innovative pilot project based on the results of the test phase and available funding.