{"id":5892,"date":"2019-10-14T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"deal-signed-to-develop-smart-green-villages-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/14\/deal-signed-to-develop-smart-green-villages-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Signed to Develop Smart Green Villages in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Michel\nNkurunziza<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rwanda Green Fund on Thursday signed an agreement with the\nGlobal Alliance for Smart Cities and Smart Villages in Africa (GASCA) to\ndevelop Rwandan villages into &#8220;smart green villages&#8221; with an aim to\nbuild communities&#8217; resilience to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal with be facilitated by 20 Regions of Climate Action\n(R20), a consortium of private companies and not-for-profit international\norganizations that develop and secure financing for green infrastructure\nprojects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A green village is one that is developed economically using\nnatural resources in a sustainable manner, without affecting the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental experts said that the climate-smart village\napproach is a key initiative that will go a long way to address climate change\nchallenges on food security, promote adaptation and build resilience to\nclimatic stresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hubert Ruzibiza, the CEO of FONERWA said that they will\nstart by identifying areas where a pilot smart green village will be developed\nbefore a large scale deployment of smart green villages across the country and\neventually the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201910110684.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michel Nkurunziza Rwanda Green Fund on Thursday signed an agreement with the Global Alliance for Smart Cities and Smart Villages in Africa (GASCA) to develop Rwandan villages into &#8220;smart&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}