Re: Thank you UK Government for this new policy about development assistance in Rwanda.

Thank  you UK Government for this new policy about development assistance in Rwanda.

This new policy will ensure the poorest gets the support they need regardless whether they are Hutu or Tutsi. For the last 18 years, Kagame's regime has been  using  foreign aid  by  targeting the Tutsi community in  poverty reduction programmes, education and other support in cash that  benefit the Tutsi.

No more budget support to Rwandan Government to support military operations in Democratic Republic of Congo, to pay salaries of 80,000 Rwandan military and police personnel, Members of Parliament, human rights abuses, to run Rwandan Embassies abroad, to pay  corrupted foreigners who work for Kagame's regime,  and to  prevent democratic and human rights in the country.

Rwanda should embark on family planning as it was before the genocide instead of hoping that foreign aid will pay for  education of all Rwandan children. Rwandan people should have children they can educate and nourish. Since the UK government started to provide massive aid to Rwanda based on the size of the population and  with UK commitment  to provide assistance for children education, Kagame's government abandoned family  planning policy that was in place before the genocide. This  policy was scraped by Kagame to  get more foreign aid from Britain. Despite massive aid  that has been provided to  Rwanda by UK for  the last 18 years for education support and poverty reducation,the lever of poverty  in rural areas has increased in rural areas and school children in Rwanda pay  higher school fees than any other country in  Africa.

We call on Kagame's regime to release all political prisoners, to launch dialogue with his political opponents and to  allow political parties in exile and in Rwanda to operate freely.

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From: Nzinink <nzinink@yahoo.com>
To: Nzinink <nzinink@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, 1 March 2013, 12:48
Subject: [ChangingAfrica] DFID - Rwanda: UK aid to go directly to poorest

 

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/News/Latest-news/2013/Rwanda-ukaid-mar13/

Rwanda: UK aid to go directly to poorest

01 MARCH 2013

A £16 million package of development support to Rwanda will be channelled through aid agencies or directly to the poorest people, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced today. None of this funding will be released to Rwanda as general budget support - meaning that it won't go through the Rwandan government.

Following a breach of agreed development assistance partnership principles, the UK government decided in November 2012 not to release £21 million of general budget support to the government of Rwanda.

At the time, Secretary of State Justine Greening initiated work on how to protect the poorest people in Rwanda through re-programming funds that were to be no longer disbursed as general budget support.

The support announced today will include direct payments for half a million people living in extreme poverty in Rwanda and the provision of almost two million textbooks for primary and secondary school children. It will also support aid agencies working in refugee camps.

Justine Greening said:

"The reprogrammed development assistance will be channelled through projects that directly reach and protect the poorest people in Rwanda. 
"In line with my earlier decision regarding the breach of the partnership principles, it is not appropriate to release any of these funds as general budget support."

This assistance will be channelled through independent aid agencies or directly to the intended beneficiaries.

The development projects will:

• Provide cash grants or cash for work payments for 545,000 of the poorest people. The £9 million funding will be used to provide small regular payments directly to individuals to prevent them falling deeper into poverty.
• Supply 1.8 million textbooks and supplementary readers to primary and secondary school pupils across Rwanda. The £4.4 million grant will be sent directly to the textbook suppliers.
• Provide emergency relief for 20,000 refugees. Working through UNICEF and the UNHCR, the new £2 million programme will provide sleeping mats, blankets, kitchen sets, hygiene equipment, education equipment, tents, tarpaulin, water kits, pumps, therapeutic food and medicines at refugee camps in Rwanda over the next year.
• Set up nine new UNICEF early child development centres. The £500,000 programme will help 1,000 of the most vulnerable children aged six or under access early childhood facilities, such as parenting skills, educational starter kits and health and nutrition awareness.
• Set up VSO education support programmes in 270 schools across 18 districts. The three year programme will give teachers, school heads and pupils the advice they need to provide the best schooling possible.

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