Genocide Survivors Support and Assistance Fund, FARG

1998

(i) Projected number of houses constructed, reconstructed or rehabilitated (2023/24): 651 (ii) Projected number for education support scheme (2023/24): 3,942 (iii) Projected number of extreme poor households with no labour benefiting from regular direct income support (2023/24): 29,003 (iv) From 1998 to 2020 medical visits amounted a total of 2,618,366 (note that a beneficiary can take multiple medical visits). 499 survivors who were sent abroad for medical attention.

FRW 18.2 billion (2020/21)

Nationwide

Vulnerable genocide survivors, especially orphans, elderly people and adults with disabilities.

(i) Orphans under the age of 21 that have been adopted by other families who have no property that provide them with incomes as a source of the upkeep. (ii) Double orphans who survived the genocide and currently attend school with nowhere to stay during the school holidays (iii) Double orphans who survived the genocide staying in a poor family that is unable to meet the basic necessities of life. (iv) An old-aged survivor of the genocide who is unable to work and cannot take care of him - or herself. (v) A survivor of the genocide with a physical disability or chronic disease that prevents him/her from working and who is without any source of income

Cash, subsidies

Beneficiaries can receive from 7,500 RWF to RWF100,000, depending on their needs. In 2017, in general, genocide survivors benefits received monthly basis of Frw7, 500 to be able to buy basic daily materials. Another category is where each beneficiary benefits on monthly basis Frw 30,000, focusing on Incike elderly Genocide survivors with serious problem of life. The third category are genocide survivors who are hosted in common house (Inzu y’amasaziro) where FARG provides everything needed, such as food, hygienic materials, and staff assistance.

FARG is responsible for ensuring that effective M&E frameworks and mechanisms are in place and that the findings of routine monitoring and impact assessments inform practical improvements in targeting and other aspects of programme design. They will also oversee programme financial management.

Law No. 11/1998 of 1998 Amending and Completing the Law No. 2/1998 of 22 January 1998 Establishing a National Assistance Fund for the Neediest Victims of Genocide and Massacres Committed in Rwanda Between 1 October 1990 and 31 December 1994

The public sector restructuring of 2015 resulted in the introduction of Management Information Systems (MIS) for FARG. There are efforts to strengthen management information systems throughout the sector; expanding the scope of the integrated Social Protection Management Information System (iSP-MIS).