With approximately 7.8 million individuals under the age of 25 making up 60% of Rwanda’s 13 million population, the country is rich with youthful energy and untapped potential. CIMPAD’s Rwandan Youth and Women Entrepreneurship Initiative aims to harness this talent by supporting startups and small businesses that can become vital drivers of employment. Your investment in entrepreneurship today will help create much-needed jobs in a nation where youth unemployment remains high, empowering the next generation of Rwandan innovators.

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When I first learned about the opportunity to present at the International CIMPAD Conference taking place in Rwanda, my first response was “I don’t know.” My only knowledge of Rwanda was from “Hotel Rwanda,” a film I watched during my sophomore year of high school, that discussed the genocide in Rwanda. April 2024 marks 30 years since the Rwandan genocide that began in 1994. The genocide killed nearly 1 million Rwandans in merely 100 days. Rwanda is not a place I had learned much about or even considered a travel destination.

The Consortium for International Management Policy and Development (CIMPAD) and East African University Rwanda (EAUR) as hosts in collaboration with University of Rwanda (UR) and Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) as co-hosts are pleased to present the 13th International Conference that was held in Kigali, Rwanda, 23-27, 2024.