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Support for Local Governance in Rural Areas (PAGOR)

Rwanda
Inclusive Governance and Peacebuilding
Date

September 2006 to June 2012

Financial contribution

CAD $11,530,000

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Consortium partners

EXPERCO International, a private engineering firm, local authorities from two districts and six civil society organizations

Impact for

33,111 people

45% of them women

Implemented in the Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru districts, the program to support local governance in rural areas (PAGOR) has helped strengthen two pillars of decentralization: local governance and local economic development. In doing so, the program has taken into account sustainable environmental management and gender equality.

Objectives

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Improving community services

Half of project beneficiaries and management committee members are women. Environmental studies have been carried out and measures put in place to protect and enhance the environment. Finally, workers hired on construction sites have been made aware of HIV/AIDS and voluntary testing; this initiative has been chosen as one of the five best practices in Rwanda.

Boosting civic participation

Citizen participation (particularly that of women) has been boosted by raising awareness among 19,000 people of their rights and duties, laws and policies relating to decentralization, and citizen control of public action. As a result, school management committees have dared to raise issues of mismanagement, and are now more involved in the running and development of their schools.

Promoting gender mainstreaming in local planning

The two districts were the first in the country to produce “gender budgeting” documents, and are now significantly integrating the gender dimension into their planning. This is the result of raising the awareness of the authorities and setting up a committee made up of women and men (from the authorities, decentralized structures and civil society), trained and supported by the project. A social affairs officer explained that analyzing the causes of inequalities between women and men, which had always been taken as absolute truths, changed the way he received and dealt with people's requests, particularly those relating to violence against women.

Governor of the Southern Province, former mayor of Nyamagabe

Decentralization at the heart of solutions.

A Rwandan tip of the hat to the regions.

By strengthening the capacities of the two districts in the Southern Province, the program has enabled the population to benefit from improved services. The 32 projects resulting from the District Development Plans, financed by PAGOR, have enabled the construction of social infrastructure (health centers, schools, social housing, etc.) and economic infrastructure (markets, roads, etc.), as well as the development of agricultural and livestock activities for self-consumption and sale.

Results that count

With an outreach to 120,000 people, PAGOR has reached a high proportion of the population of Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru Districts and contributed to :

61,500

people have easier access to health, drinking water and education services

26,200

people benefit from better living conditions

31,000

people benefit from improved economic and social development conditions

Our partners

Thank you to our financial, consortium and implementation partners, without whom this project would not be possible.

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