Mothers around the world are busy, and the Nuru Nigeria Women’s Farmer Association members are no different. They invested in two days of permaculture training to learn how to produce more food at home using a minimal amount of money and time. Permagardens use permaculture and bio-intensive agriculture principles to create a productive kitchen garden …
On October 10-12, 2019, Nuru Kenya and Nuru Social Entreprises (NSE) partnered together to participate as exhibitors at The Agricultural Society of Kenya South Western Kenya Branch Show. The theme of this year’s show was “Promoting Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and Trade” in order to ensure food security in line with SDG #2: Zero …
In mid-September, Pauline Wambeti, Nuru Kenya’s Country Director, shared her perspectives on locally-led development, as part of a panel discussion at the 2019 AidEx Nairobi conference. This conference attracted over 1,000 aid and development practitioners and as a result, Nuru Kenya is emerging as a thought leader in development in East Africa. Conference attendees included …
Nuru Kenya works toward improving maternal and child healthcare in line with Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-Being. Each year, Nuru Kenya participates in local events in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week (observed annually from August 1-7) established through World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA). This year, an event was held the first …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2019 CONTACT Tacy Layne | tacy.layne@nuruinternational.org Costa Mesa– On Thursday, July 18, the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs hosted its “UNITY on GLOBAL FRAGILITY: Can Today’s Momentum in Washington Stop Tomorrow’s Violent Conflicts?” event in Washington, D.C. The hosts led a robust discussion on countering violent …
WASHINGTON – Humentum honored Marc Rahlves, Chief Operating Officer at Nuru International, with its 2019 Operational Excellence Award at the annual conference, OpEx DC 2019, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, July 10. The Humentum Operational Excellence Awards were established in 2010 (originally the InsideNGO Operational Excellence Awards) to recognize professionals within the development sector who …
One of the key components of the Nuru model to eradicate extreme poverty in fragile, rural areas is through investment in local farmer organizations that are self-sustaining. Our goal is to ensure that the farmers Nuru serves can compete in a dynamic agribusiness sector and contribute to their local economy, security, and resilience. This goal …
Costa Mesa, CA– Nuru International celebrates the passage of the bipartisan Global Fragility Act of 2019 (GFA), by Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), Mike McCaul (R-TX), and many others in the United States House of Representatives as H.R. 2116. This legislation is a critical step toward solving the issue of state fragility. Several of the key …
At Nuru, a self-sustaining farmer organization is a locally-owned and maintained agribusiness, non-profit, or cooperative that is financially sustainable, managed efficiently by its leadership, and provides socio-economic benefits to its community. At its core, this component of the Nuru model focuses on engaging and collaborating with community members to build transformative institutions that can provide …
Nuru International is ecstatic to have made The NonProfit Times “Best Nonprofits to Work For” list for the second year in a row. Nuru moved up 14 spots from last year and is now ranked the 28th Best Nonprofit to Work For in the U.S. In the Small Organizations category (15-49 employees), Nuru is ranked …
With the launch of Nuru Nigeria, we are taking ambitious steps to eradicate extreme poverty in fragile rural areas and build communities resilient to violent extremism. By 2030, about 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor will live in fragile states unable to mitigate economic and security shocks. Nuru International has always believed that strengthening …
In January 2019, The United Methodist Church held its annual conference, “The Church and Agriculture, ” in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference took place over four days and attendees included both agriculture experts from The United Methodist Church and dozens of their partner organizations. The conference brought together 80 agricultural leaders and innovators from across Africa …
Costa Mesa, CA– Nuru International applauds the introduction of the Global Fragility Act of 2019, by Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), Mike McCaul (R-TX), Adam Smith (D-WA), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Bill Keating (D-MA), and Francis Rooney (R-FL) in the United States House of Representatives as H.R. 1580, and Senators Christopher Coons (D-DE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jeff …
On November 27th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed critical bi-partisan legislation that Nuru International and a broad coalition of other NGOs have been tirelessly working on for over two years. The Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act would require the U.S. Department of State, in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), …
The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth posts in this series are an attempt to convey how Nuru’s approach to rural livelihood development reaches farmers with knowledge, technology and opportunities that they demand and need. It requires intentional co-creation processes from design to impact and through to the continuous improvement of program activities using adaptive …