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Good governance unit

Services provided in good governance unit

Services provided in good governance unit

1. Coordination and Monitoring of Local Government Operations and Capacity Building

  • Villages: 350
  • Cells: 47
  • Sectors: 10
  • Organizing and monitoring elections of local leaders and special groups
  • Resolving citizens’ issues through community assemblies
  • Resolving citizens’ disputes through mediation committees (Abunzi)
  • Resolving citizens’ issues through the e-Citizen platform
  • Monitoring civil registration services at local levels

2. Coordination and Monitoring of Unity and Reconciliation Programs

  • Monitoring the functioning of unity and reconciliation forums in 350 villages
  • Monitoring unity and reconciliation mobilizers in 47 cells
  • Monitoring unity and reconciliation forums in 10 sectors
  • Promoting unity and reconciliation principles through district-level forums and supporting Abunzi b’Igihango (Guardians of the Pact)
  • Monitoring the activities of Abunzi b’Igihango from district to cell level

3. Monitoring the Functioning of the National Itorero Program at Local Levels

  • Monitoring Itorero at village level
  • Monitoring Itorero in schools
  • Monitoring Itorero in workplaces
  • Monitoring volunteerism programs
  • Monitoring village-based community service (Urugerero)
  • Monitoring Urugerero through Ingando (civic education camps)

4. Culture, Youth, and Sports

  • Promoting youth talent development (talent detection)
  • Promoting and strengthening a sports culture among different population groups
  • Promoting culture and genocide commemoration programs, and fighting genocide ideology
  • Preventing drug abuse among youth and monitoring rehabilitation programs

5. Promoting Gender Equality and Family Development

  • Monitoring family evening programs (Umugoroba w’Umuryango)
  • Establishing and monitoring strategies to prevent family-based violence
  • Supporting and reintegrating victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking
  • Reintegrating street children back into families

6. Promoting Partnerships

  • Issuing authorization documents to partners wishing to operate in the district
  • Monitoring partners’ contributions to district development

7. Public Security

  • Developing strategies to maintain public security
  • Strengthening the capacity of community-based security organs
  • Monitoring the functioning of professional night patrols