FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 15, 2020 Contact: Tacy Layne | info@nuruinternational.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nuru Kenya is highlighted in the recently published book What Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development Around the World. The exit of Nuru International from Nuru Kenya is one of nineteen featured case studies in this …
It’s harvest time in northern Adamawa State. During this time of year, farmers are busy. Farmers have intricately planned harvest and post-harvest activities, such as drying and threshing (removing the grain from the plant). Plans follow a series of steps to ensure that crops are harvested on time and then kept safe from the weather, …
Five years ago, Nuru International expatriates left Kenya and handed over the operations of the Nuru Kenya NGO to the local team. The international team had high expectations, having mentored the local team for seven years. Preparation for Exit Despite their excitement to take over operations, the local team was also skeptical about their capacity …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 30, 2020 Contact: Billy Williams | info@nuruinternational.org WASHINGTON, D.C.–– Twelve years ago, the idea of Nuru was launched in southwestern Kenya. When Jake Harriman founded this organization, he had always envisioned Nuru being able to grow. He envisioned it scaling to make a significant contribution to ending extreme poverty. Jake was …
Permagarden training, a program Nuru Nigeria offers farmer association members to increase household nutrition, is launching for the second consecutive year. Permagarden Training: Year Two The first year’s experience with tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers was important from many points. The Nigeria team took on this project and delivered value to our first farmer associations (FAs) …
Digital Development and AgTech at Nuru Nuru has demonstrated success in developing resilient, locally-led organizations in rural areas of Kenya and Ethiopia as outlined in the USAID Stopping As Success learning collaboration. With an aim to address urgent needs at the confluence of conflict, climate change, and poverty, Nuru launched a third country project in …
On June 2, Nuru Kenya and Nuru Social Enterprises presented virtually for Humentum Africa. Humentum brings together international relief and development organizations to share best practices, learn from one another, and collaborate on larger opportunities. Nuru Kenya’s presentation focused on building sustainable business solutions amid challenges for the rural poor and was attended by 37 …
The first half of 2020 has been a fantastic series of tangible outcomes for the Nuru Nigeria team. The results are the product of many months of effort in training, testing, procuring and interacting with our farmers and their associations in northern Adamawa State. From permagardens for household nutrition to better monetary security and transparency …
As global coronavirus cases continue to rise and tense economic debates fill the news and social media echo-chambers I would like to thank you for taking a moment to consider the impacts COVID-19 and a global recession will have on another continent (or maybe it hits closer to home). As my colleague and friend, Tom …
Hope. I have been reflecting a lot lately on how absent this word has been from people’s mouths in recent days. The darkness of fear came so quickly that life from a month ago feels like it was already ages ago. I have had the fortune of living a life full of choices and wonder. A …
The 2015 exit of Nuru International staff from Migori County, Kenya, was recently featured as a case study in the USAID-funded collaborative research project, “Stopping As Success: Transitioning to Locally Led Development” (SAS), a project aimed at promoting “locally led development by bringing greater awareness to the international community of the multiple dynamics at play …
The Desert Locust The most expansive outbreak of desert locusts in decades is currently migrating across the Horn of Africa and reaching north into South Sudan and south into Tanzania. Massive desert locust swarms have occurred in 1926-34, 1940-48, 1949-63, 1967-69 and 1986-89 and in some cases have been transcontinental in nature. However, this outbreak …
Workenesh Nekeri is a Nuru woman farmer, mother, and a member of Shambara Primary Cooperative in SNNPR, Ethiopia. She and her husband became members of the multipurpose cooperative by paying 100 ETB each, about $6 USD, for their ownership shares in the business. They paid for these shares with income from their primary on-farm business …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2019 CONTACT Billy Williams | billy.williams@nuruinternational.org Washington, DC–Nuru International celebrates the passage of the bipartisan Global Fragility Act (GFA), included in the Fiscal Year 2020 spending package. This landmark legislation requires the establishment of a robust strategy to focus U.S. foreign assistance on addressing and preventing violent extremism in fragile …
Nuru Kenya has significantly improved the rural livelihoods of communities in Migori County by supporting the establishment of 14 farmer-led, farmer-managed, and farmer-owned cooperatives (co-ops). Support includes capacity building through training on: modern agricultural practices, governance, business skills, food security, and nutrition, as well as market linkages that support the community in sustainably diversifying their …