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Case study · Legal & Institutional Structuring

ISHEMA: a commercial entity for TVET production units

Designing the legal and governance set-up that lets RTB run agricultural production units as self-sustaining businesses.

Client
LuxDev · Rwanda TVET Board (RTB)
Our role
Commercial & legal structuring
Sector
Agricultural skills & TVET
Location
Rwanda
4
Formal deliverables
~65
Working days, end to end
4
Parties with defined roles & rights
01
The challenge

What needed solving

ISHEMA is setting up production units at agricultural Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) to run as real businesses, with profits flowing into a skills development fund.

To work, the model needs a commercial entity within RTB with a transparent, auditable trail of funds, and clear rules on who owns, uses and maintains project assets during and after the project.

02
Our approach

How we tackled it

  1. 1

    Lessons learnt

    Reviewed comparable Rwandan models, including IPRC’s commercial arm.

  2. 2

    Options analysis

    Compared company models under Rwandan company law and supported the choice in decision workshops with LuxDev and RTB.

  3. 3

    Roadmap

    Set out step-by-step actions for RTB and stakeholders to establish the company.

  4. 4

    Governance pack

    Prepared approval and registration documents, organogram, controls, and rights over assets and funds.

03
What we delivered

Key outputs

  • Lessons-learnt report
  • Company-model options analysis
  • Establishment roadmap
  • Registration, governance & operating documents
04
Why it matters

The difference it makes

  • A clear legal route for a public training body to earn and retain commercial revenue.
  • Defined rights and obligations over assets and funds between LuxDev, RTB and the CoVEs.
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