EHOPA partners with communities and institutions to deliver inclusive, locally led and sustainable solutions across Rwanda and DR Congo — advancing livelihoods, education, youth development, health, WASH, nutrition, humanitarian response, peacebuilding, climate resilience, gender equality, disability inclusion and social protection.
We work with women and girls, children, youth, persons with disabilities, displaced people and vulnerable communities, helping people build resilience, expand opportunity and shape their own future.
Elevate Hope Africa (EHOPA) is a community-led development organisation working across Rwanda and eastern DR-Congo to deliver locally owned, evidence-driven solutions that improve lives, strengthen institutions, and create lasting resilience in most challenging contexts.
We work at the intersection of humanitarian response and long-term development,bridging urgent needs with the systems strengthening communities depend on for the future.
Find out morepeople to be directly reached across Rwanda and DR-Congo through EHOPA's six integrated programme areas.
target population to give access to safe, clean water and wash behaviour change through EHOPA WASH infrastructure and health intervention in South Kivu.
of youth to be trained through EHOPA's Education & Youth programme placed in employment or enterprise.
As conflict continues to affect South and north Kivu, EHOPA is mobilising emergency WASH,food and none food support and early recovery assistance for over 15,000 displaced people.
Facts and figures showing real change across our programmes.
A school meals beneficiary in Rwanda now teaches the next generation — and credits EHOPA's programme with her path forward.
120+ community-based organisations strengthened across 7 districts, now leading local development without external facilitation.
Five innovations transforming how EHOPA delivers WASH and nutrition in complex, resource-constrained field settings.
Everyone has a role to play. Find out how you can contribute as an individual, organisation or institution.
It only takes a minute to support communities in Rwanda and DR Congo. Choose how you give.
Businesses and foundations partner with EHOPA to deliver measurable development outcomes at scale.
Governments and INGOs work with EHOPA on large-scale, evidence-based development and humanitarian programming.
Click any programme card to discover how EHOPA works — locally designed, evidence-driven and built around the communities we serve.
Strong communities build strong nations.
EHOPA strengthens local voice, economic resilience and locally-led development across 7 districts — empowering 120+ CBOs to lead change from within.
Every child protected. Every child heard.
From ECD centres to child protection and youth skills — EHOPA invests in every stage of a child's journey in rural and urban communities.
Clean water. Better nutrition. Healthier lives.
EHOPA delivers clean water infrastructure, sanitation systems and nutrition behaviour change — transforming daily life for thousands of families across South Kivu.
Rebuilding trust. Restoring dignity. Sustaining peace.
In conflict-affected DR Congo, EHOPA facilitates structured dialogue and reconciliation — rebuilding trust between displaced and host communities.
No one left behind. Everyone counts.
EHOPA ensures women, persons with disabilities and marginalised groups have equal access, voice and opportunity — inclusion embedded in every programme.
In the hardest moments, EHOPA stands firm.
EHOPA delivers life-saving assistance to displaced and crisis-affected communities in eastern DR Congo — bridging emergency response with long-term recovery.
EHOPA operates under strict standards of governance, data integrity and safeguarding at every step.
Do no harm, safe programming and protection-centred practice across all interventions.
Audited accounts, donor fund reporting and public financial statements published annually.
Responsible data collection, storage and sharing aligned with international standards.
Feedback mechanisms, scorecards and transparent communications at community level.
Research, M&E, MIS and capacity support for development actors across Rwanda and DR Congo.
Research design, needs assessments, baseline and endline studies, household surveys and evidence generation.
M&E frameworks, results chains, indicator matrices, data quality assessments and adaptive management support.
Information systems, mobile data collection, dashboards and real-time reporting system design.
End-to-end survey management — design, enumerator training, data cleaning and professional reporting.
Tailored training for NGO staff, government officials and development actors across the region.
Strengthening internal systems, programme quality standards and organisational effectiveness.
Every contribution — large or small — helps communities strengthen their voice, expand opportunity and build resilience across Rwanda and DR Congo.
Choose how you'd like to support EHOPA's work.
Co-designing and evaluating large-scale development and humanitarian interventions.
Aligning with national priorities and strengthening institutional frameworks.
Empowering local leaders, groups and civil society to lead change from within.
Generating evidence, conducting studies and advancing learning across sectors.
Building cross-border collaboration across Rwanda, DR Congo and beyond.
Whether you need operational partnership, consultancy or technical assistance — let's connect.
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Implementation, funding, research and institutional partnerships.
Research, M&E, MIS, surveys and capacity building.
Offer professional skills or specialist expertise.
Individual, recurring and programme giving options.
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