proWOOD as part of the PartnerAfrica program is a "twinning" project financed by the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ), supported by sequa, a German development organisation. The implementing German business organisation for proWOOD is Internationaler Bund (IB) together with it´s German technical partners Technical University Mittelhessen (THM) and a federal training centre for Carpentry (BuBiZa), who is collaborating with partners in Rwanda. Among the The implementation partners in Rwanda are the Integrated Polytechnical Regional Center Kitabi (IPRC Kitabi), Rubengera Technical Campus (RTC) and Rwanda Wood Value Chain Association (RWVCA)