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Respect Rungano Musiyiwa

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Member Since	Dec 5, 2016	CoLab Points (actual) CoLab Points are awarded to all the members who contributed to a winning integrated Proposal, as well as those who contributed to any sub-Proposal it contains.(See more)	0
Country	Zimbabwe	CoLab Points (max. potential) The maximum number of CoLab Points this member could receive. This is a measure of how many times the member’s Proposal have been included in other Proposal and how important it is in those Proposal.(See more)	0

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Respect is an award-winning young social agriculture entrepreneur who cannot control his emotions whenever he recalls how he grew up in a poor, climate-sensitive rural community that is food and income insecure. He founded Centre for Agro-entrepreneurship and Sustainable Livelihoods Trust (CASL). CASL´s success speaks for itself; it has changed his life and transformed his community. From a poor peasant rural young man, Respect has risen to become a successful social entrepreneur. Respect significantly participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Week Zimbabwe (2012). He scooped the prestigious National Young Social Entrepreneur Award US $5000 grant supported by the Youth Empowerment Transformation Trust to pilot test his social enterprise in 2012. CASL was also awarded a US $50 000 grant from the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme- UNDP to launch and market validate its social enterprise in 2013. During the same year he was honoured with the Empretec Trust Scholarship for entrepreneurship development. Also, in 2015 he received the National Young Farmer Innovation Award and participated in the Boost Fellowship for entrepreneurship development. Following his participation in the US Embassy Zimbabwe Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship (2016) Respect was selected to take part in the Young Africa Leadership Initiative (YALI) Southern Africa Fellowship.

Musiyiwa represented his community in the following forums; Zimbabwe National Young Leaders Summit (2012), COMESA Youth Summit on Climate Change (2012), National Climate Change Response Strategy Consultations (2013), National Migration Policy Consultations (2015), SADC Regional Water Strategy IV Conference (2015), Africa Youth Climate Change Conference (2015) and 5th Climate Change and Development in Africa.Today he thrives as an Agricultural Engineering student at EARTH University (MasterCard Scholar) where he is acquiring more skills and knowledge pertaining to sustainable agriculture.