2025 Annual Report

A year of growth, learning, and measurable impact

In 2025, we continued building toward this vision by expanding our reach, strengthening program delivery, and deepening our understanding of how our model performs across different contexts.

Over the year, we partnered with 647,285 community members across Uganda and our Learning Hub countries, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bringing our cumulative reach to nearly two million people by the end of 2025. Guided by Venn, our data-for-action engine, we remained focused on program quality, cost-efficiency, and continuous improvement as we scaled.

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The truest measure of this work is the progress achieved by partner households. In 2025, graduating households continued to strengthen income and production, while longer-term results showed that outcomes continued to grow after graduation. The sections below highlight our reach and program delivery outputs form our 2025 Annual Report.

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Expanding partnership with last-mile communities

In 2025, we reached 647,285 partner community members across our core country of operation, Uganda, and the Learning Hubs, Rwanda and the DRC, bringing our cumulative reach since 2016 to 1.9 million people. As part of our learning and adaptive framework, we are implementing multiple program delivery models to support scale across different contexts in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Through our Learning Hubs in Rwanda and the DRC, we are testing and adapting how the program performs across different contexts and delivery pathways, including those led by government and local partners. This work informs how we scale while maintaining quality.

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2025 program delivery highlights

Raising The Village’s model supports households to build stronger, more resilient livelihoods through a connected set of interventions that respond to the realities of last-mile communities. Agriculture remains the primary driver of income growth, supported by quality inputs, practical tools, hands-on training, and ongoing coaching that help households improve production over time.
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This is reinforced by access to savings and credit through community-managed VSLAs, which enable households to invest in their livelihoods, meet financial needs, and launch local initiatives. At the same time, support for food security, WASH, health access, and local leadership helps reduce barriers to participation and strengthens the systems communities need to sustain progress beyond the program period. In 2025, this approach was reflected across a range of program outputs that supported households and communities throughout the year.

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Agriculture

• 3,315 tons of good-quality household seeds distributed
• 114,304 agriculture tools distributed

Financial inclusion

• 1,046 community initiatives launched including livestock, agriculture, business, and home improvement initiatives.
• 1,192 training sessions delivered for financial literacy, VSLA, and business enterprise selection.

Health and wellbeing

• 25,572,600 seedlings distributed, including 20 varieties of vegetable seedlings distributed on average for each household.
• 351 wells and boreholes constructed, springs rehabilitated, and rainwater harvest tanks installed
• 3,367 Health Outreach (HOR) days held in partnership with local health officials to provide treatment and referrals for common illnesses.

Community systems and leadership

• 6,541 Agriculture Champions elected
• 7,403 youth and 9,133 women in community leadership positions

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What change looked like

Apolo and Sylivia are neighbors in a last-mile village in the Ugandan district of Mitooma. Like many families in their community, they rely on subsistence farming to support their households. But years of low agricultural yields, poor sanitation, and limited access to savings have made it challenging to improve their livelihoods and plan for the future.
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In 2025, their community partnered with RTV to improve agricultural income and to address barriers preventing households from fully participating in economic activities. The inputs and coaching they’ve received have helped them improve their crop production; provided their families with nutritious food and access to affordable credit to invest in livestock and small businesses; and encouraged them to take on leadership roles to drive progress across their community.

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