TechnoServe refers to technological services. TechnoServe is a non-profit economic development organisation based in South Africa that helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas build profitable businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, communities and countries, according organisation's website. 

Founded in 1968, TechnoServe operates on the principal that the most productive, most efficient way of bettering the lives of the rural poor is to empower them with the technical and management skills to support themselves on an ongoing basis.