• Contact: Mrs Josephine Irene Uwamariya
  • Address: P.O box 3707 Kigali, Rwanda
  • Phone: (+250) 280300142
  • Email: actionaid.rwanda@actionaid.org
  • Web: www.actionaid.org/rwanda
  • Members:
    AAR

AAR

ActionAid Rwanda

Member since: 2018

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

ActionAid Rwanda works with rural communities to challenge the root causes of poverty, build their skills and increase their knowledge to identify solutions for lasting change impacting their lives. AAR has a focus on women and girls issues for eradication of poverty and injustice.

Objectives

AAR's main objective is to connect and support people living in poverty and to further human rights as the best ways to challenge governments and eradicate poverty and injustice. AAR is supporting people living in poverty to have access to sustainable agriculture, secure livelihood alternatives and build resilience to natural disasters through preparedness, mitigation and response to risks. Plus, AAR works to improve the quality of public education for girls and boys equally on a basis of equality, and to support children and youth to become drivers of change in their communities. Finally, AAR's last objective is to empower women and girls to build social and economic alternatives that enable them to break the cycle of poverty and violence and to have control over their own bodies.

Constituencies

ActionAid is a non-political, non-religious development organization and in alliance with leading anti-poverty agencies that work directly with over 500,000 poor and excluded people in 11 communities of five districts in Rwanda. Since its foundation, the organisation has since supported communities with by providing them with basic services like water, health, education and improved agricultural production, value addition and post-harvest handling initiatives. ActionAid Rwanda has also supported programmes aimed at increasing women's economic capacity for their full participation and inclusion in development and decision making processes, so that they can live in a life of dignity.

  • Contact: Mrs Josephine Irene Uwamariya
  • Address: P.O box 3707 Kigali, Rwanda
  • Phone: (+250) 280300142
  • Email: actionaid.rwanda@actionaid.org
  • Web: www.actionaid.org/rwanda
  • Members:
    AAR