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Running a business as a couple can be incredibly rewarding, allowing partners to combine their strengths, shared vision, and passion for success.

However, navigating the complexities of entrepreneurship together can pose unique challenges, with conflicts arising from differences in management styles, communication preferences, roles and responsibilities, and work-life balance.

Furthermore, traditional gender roles often limit women's full participation in decision-making and income generating activities.

Case in point: James and Patricia are a couple who own a pork butchery in Rwanda’s Gakenke district. In the past, James made most business decisions without consulting his wife, which led to frequent disagreements due to lack of transparency of business earnings.

To address challenges for couples like James and Patricia, Feed the Future's Orora Wihaze Activity teamed up with RWAMREC - Rwanda Men's Resource Center to provide specialized six-month training programs to couples in animal-sourced food businesses.

Read more about their new six month training program here ⬇️
https://ow.ly/ZzqA50Uvbhz.

📍 Event Reminder! 📍

Join a panel from DevTech Systems, Inc. and USAID - US Agency for International Development on January 15, 2024, at 10:00am ET. This webinar will focus on an assessment of a pilot payment for environmental services project in the .

A pilot project for payments for environmental services (PES) began in 2011 in the Yaque del Norte River Basin, the largest watershed in the DR.

The USAID-funded Fiscal Accountability and Sustainable Trade (FAST) Activity assessed the pilot’s public financial management practices, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and and provided a recommendation for a future national PES program.

Register to Attend Here ⬇️
https://www.marketlinks.org/events/assessment-pilot-payment-environmental-services-project-dominican-republic-and

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We are counting down our top ten most viewed contributions on the site in 2024.

Blog post, "What Do We Know about the Impacts and Social Return on Investment (SROI) of Peacebuilding Interventions," is our 7th most viewed contribution of 2024.

Read more about programs and their around the world here ⬇️

https://www.marketlinks.org/blogs/what-do-we-know-about-impacts-and-social-return-investment-sroi-peacebuilding-interventions