Performance Evaluation Strengthening Agricultural Resilience Through Learning and Innovation (STARLIT) Project

Strengthening Agricultural Resilience through Learning and Innovation (STARLIT) is an eighteen months (January 2022-July 2023) project funded by IFAD and implemented by Cordaid in Kayonza District, Eastern Province of Rwanda, and Kakamega county in Kenya. STARLIT targets smallholder farmers through farming cooperatives and partners with Financial Institutions, Youth networks, platforms, Equipment Suppliers, Government institutions, and digital companies.

STARLIT project aims to strengthen the resilience of smallholder farmers against climate change and prolonged disasters, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, through four components: Improved access to agricultural mechanization, Improved access to digital agricultural information, Improved capacity to agri-finance for smallholder farmers and South-south knowledge exchange through learning events and digital peer-to-peer exchange.