CORY Solutions enable young rural women and men to create sustainable farm and non-farm businesses by building their entrepreneurial capacities for enhanced peer learning and access to complementary business development services. A 36-month program, CORY is composed of three components:
- – Knowledge management and research/survey of business development services,
- – Rural entrepreneurial training, mentorship, and business development services, and
- – Micro-credit lending through assessing loan repayment and risk mitigation.
The three-component create an ecosystem of financial services, targeted skills development programs, and learning systems that will help sustain and grow rural youth-owned innovative small businesses and enterprises. CORY Solutions provide knowledge and services based on tested and proven rural youth-led solutions and approaches that provide rural youth with farm and non-farm agribusiness opportunities as well as services tailored to the demands of rural youth and youth organizations.
Partners/Clients
IFAD, West and Central Africa Division
CEED, Halifax, Canada
Columbia Business School, New York City
Susterra, Boston, MA
Phelps Stokes
GYIN
