iHuzo – Accelerating growth of MSE through expanding e-commerce in Rwanda

iHuzo – Accelerating growth of MSE through expanding e-commerce in Rwanda. BFA worked with Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) and ICT Chamber to stimulate the growth of livelihoods and employment opportunities in Rwanda through e-commerce, to address the barriers and promote an enabling market system for e-commerce with onboarding MSEs into the digital economy at the core. BFA in partnership with AFR and ICT Chamber addressed the market constraints of MSEs to the digital economy and created new or improved livelihoods for workers through three pillars, including digital onboarding MSEs, ecosystem acceleration and knowledge creation and demonstration for e-commerce to be replicated and sustained by other Rwandan companies after the program ended. With BFA support, the program onboarded 1,500 local businesses across target MSEs segments of e-commerce readiness and improved or created livelihoods for 2,000 young women and men iWorkers directly through digital onboarding, spurred e-commerce system that engendered wider, more inclusive adoption and drove more investment and actors crowding into the market system. BFA published 3 blogs and 1 final report capturing learnings, takeaways, models for the sector to replicate and pathways to scale.