• Transforming Ideas Into Action
• Combating Climate Change
• Treating HIV/AIDS & Malaria
• Fighting Childhood Obesity
• Promoting Economic Opportunity
• Creating Sustainable Development in Africa
  • Why Sustainable Development?
  • Our Approach
  • Malawi
  • Rwanda
  • What We've Accomplished
• Enabling Sustainable Development

What We’ve Accomplished

The Clinton Development Initiative programs are working to catalyze sustainable economic development in Rwanda and Malawi. We achieve results through strategic partnerships with national governments, communities, and other stakeholders.

Malawi

• Worked with 1,200 farmers in Neno to increase wheat production and arrange sales to the largest wheat purchaser in Malawi at prices 50 percent higher than in previous years.
• Carried out community hygiene and water point provision and management training programs to deliver clean water to dozens of village communities, impacting 16,000 people including 7,000 students.
• Alongside Partners In Health, CDI constructed the 120-bed Neno District Hospital and 23 staff houses in the remote Neno hills area.
• In partnership with the Ministry of Health, CDI designed, funded, and managed construction of The Ethel Mutharika Maternity Hospital in Lilongwe to help reduce maternal and newborn mortality rates in Malawi.
• Supported smallholder cotton farmers to increase yields and quality and to apply for certification as Fairtrade producers for access to higher prices.
• Assisted community groups in planting several million fruit and hardwood seedlings for improved soil management and for future income from carbon credit sales and from sale of fruit and lumber.
• Linked hundreds of smallholder farmers to CDI’s Mpherero Farm for improved yields, soil rejuvenation, market access and profitability.

Rwanda

• The Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI) assisted the government of Rwanda with the single largest purchase of fertilizer in Rwandan history, resulting in 10-20 percent price savings. With improved planting techniques and expanded access to seeds, 4,000 farmers’ yields increased by 240 percent on average, growing their incomes and feeding 30,000 people.
• Helped 6,500 coffee farmers develop their company, called Misozi Coffee Company, into a profitable enterprise. By the end of 2007, Misozi farmers had increased their production by 20 percent and increased their sales by over 30 percent.
• Established rainwater harvesting and latrine programs at 12 schools in Rwanda, providing 15,000 children with modern latrines and stored water for hand-washing.
• Joined with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Partners In Health, and the government of Rwanda to renovate Rwinkwavu Hospital into a fully functioning District Hospital that now serves 265,000 people; and to support four additional health facilities in the area, serving 425,000 Rwandans.
• CHDI is in the process of developing two new large-scale, value-additive businesses in Rwanda: a soy processing plant and a coffee roasting business. These businesses are co-invested alongside local Rwandan investors, and both businesses are anticipated to be operational in early 2010. These new operations impact the lives of between 30,000 and 40,000 farmers. CHDI’s earnings from these operations will be directed fully to the participating farmers.