World Vision Rwanda is set to launch its new country strategy with a goal to contribute to the sustainable wellbeing of 2 million most vulnerable children by 2025. The global relief, development and advocacy organisation began operations in Rwanda in 1994, first by focusing on relief and rehabilitation and later on child focused area development programmes across the country. World Vision Rwanda supports the most vulnerable children and their communities with interventions in the areas of education, child protection, health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and economic empowerment. The Organization achieves its mandate through creating five-year strategic goals and objectives that are in alignment with World Vision global strategy and Government of Rwanda National Strategy for Transformation (NST1) In the past strategy (2016-2020), World Vision aimed at improving resilient livelihoods of small-holder farmers, agro businesses, and entrepreneurs; improving maternal and child health, nutrition and WASH; improving the quality of education and life skills for children and youth in targeted communities among others. In their areas of operation, World Vision saw a 46.4% increase in parents/care givers who were able to provide for their families without any need of external assistance which was attributed to the organization’s programmatic interventions to enable families to be self-reliant. Among its priorities, World Vision Rwanda committed to support one million people with access to clean water by the year 2024, a target which the organization has currently achieved 68% of water coverage in their areas of operation. Basing on the lessons drawn from their previous strategy, World Vision is now set to launch its new country strategy (2021 -2025) in hybrid event set to take place on February 8 2022, bringing together its key partners and donors. The new strategy is set to contribute to sustainable wellbeing of two million most vulnerable children by 2025 with close collaboration with partners. According to World Vision Rwanda’s Acting Integrated Programmes Director, Gemma Mukandekezi said, “The new strategy comes as a continuation of the past one. It will proceed to address what was already being done and also focus on what more needs to be done.” The new strategy 2021-2025 is a result of concerted efforts and consultations among the different stakeholders such as Government of Rwanda, Civil Society, Faith-based organizations, children, parents, community leaders, World Vision Staff and many other partners. World Vision Rwanda’s Senior Programmes Manager, Frank Muhwezi said, “These consultations provided insights into the various issues affecting children and their communities and ways through which all those problems could be solved through the different channels and partnerships as embedded in the new strategy.” In the new strategy, World Vision Rwanda takes into consideration the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Rwandan population and therefore, seeks to keep committed to fight against the pandemic and its effects. World Vision is currently operating in 29 out of Rwanda’s 30 districts and supports more than 1.8 million people, especially children. -- ABOUT WORLD VISION World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation dedicated to working with children, families and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. For more information, please visit www.wvi.org or follow us on Twitter on @WVRwanda or @WorldVision
