Rwanda

Rwanda enacted regulatory frameworks on old age, disability and survivors as well as work injury before independence in 1962. The sickness and maternity law was introduced after independence. In 1997 and 1998, Rwanda introduced two social assistance programmes named the Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme and the Genocide Survivors Support and Assistance Fund. The Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme started in 2008 with the objective of contributing to the country’s goal of reducing extreme poverty. The programme has a component of directly supporting poor families without labour capacity and a component of public works to support poor families with labour capacity. The direct transfer component reached 73,934 household participants in 2019 and the public works reached 141,000 household participants in the same year. Rwanda fully funds its social assistance programmes.