Citizens need more involvement in projects of general interest- Rwanda Civil society

During  meeting between the National Commission for Human Rights and the Civil Society umbrella ,they agreed on the fact that citizens still have less participation in policy making and implementation of projects impacting on their daily lives.

Rwandan civil society through CLADHO,vividly highlights the fact that citizens are not full integrated in the policy making process , and according to it, this  hinders them from having a say on what is being done for them as projects.

Some local leaders point that issues relating to district budget management  should be discussed upon by all  stakeholders including inhabitants who have practical benefits from these very projects

Mr Nkurunziza Alex objects that in Rwanda there exists a significant lack of information.

He explains:

“One day when we were at the National Assembly to discuss about national budget, we told them that the budget issues are still unknown by a big majority of Rwandans and that this affects the effectiveness of projects implementation”.

For him this helps to pinpoint a less important participation of population in projects which predicts the climax of poverty

Among other topics they discussed about include financially and technically poor budget that the Civil Society faces, legal issues that  weaken their operational activities  and so on and so forth.

The National Commission for Human Rights plans to strengthen Civil society’ structures so to equip it with enough tools to sustain itself.

Last year ,as NCHR indicates, in close partnership with civil society ,it had been able to solve not less than 1300 issues relating to  different fields.

Daddy Sadiki Ribangura

UM– USEKE