Project Period: September 2020-August 2022

Funding Source/Donor Organization: Global SSDC Project Center, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation

Executing Agency: China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE)

Contact: Ding Xingcui: 13805791796@163.com; dxc01@hotmail.com

Brief Introduction:

Rwanda is a landlocked country in African, located in the upstream on the Nile, and recognized as one of the least developed countries. It is a country with agriculture-dependence, poor industry, high unemployment, particularly its serious water and soil erosion which is resulted from awful forest logging and threatens the ecological security to its downstream countries resulted in. Meanwhile overwhelming majorities of goods have to depend upon importation due to worse industrial production capacities, including various kinds of building boards necessary for such infrastructure construction as bridge, road, high-building. Bamboo is rich in resources, but little in use. To develop a Market-driving Green Bamboo Concrete Board Industry in Rwanda is to protect forest resources and to replace importation.

Project has trained a total of 93 Rwanda person, conducted technical consultation and service for 3 times, transferred three package of technologies (technologies for bamboo propagation, cultivation, technologies for using raw bamboo into furniture, technologies for the production of bamboo concrete board (BCB), written down a feasibility study report on the BCB manufacture in the Eastern Africa, organized on-line seminar and expo of BCB for the Eastern Africa.    

In 2021, Project is screened as one of Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development by United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation by the name of "African Agro-industry Inclusive Development through Bamboo-Developing a green bamboo agro-industry for greater poverty alleviation and ecological protection in Rwanda".