Grant Period : January 2010- December 2012

Grant size: 938,000GBP

Main components: access to services, education, Health insurance, housing, legal assistance, land registration, Income generation, football, children rights

Executive summary
The project “The Socio-Economic Integration of Child-Headed Households in Post-Conflict Rwanda” was designed to support the socio-economic integration of the most marginalized and vulnerable child-headed households in rural Rwanda. Specifically to recover and enjoy their rights and properties; access quality services in legal representation, shelter, health and education; increase knowledge and leadership in income generation and food security; establish community and governance structures for the protection of CHH and a national advocacy network for the engagement of CHH in development planning processes.

The project contributed to the long term changes of social protection and safer livelihoods of CHH through:- Improved environments that provide safer and greater livelihood opportunities that support children and young people affected by conflict - Children and young people affected by conflict have increased opportunities to participate in civil society in order to influence decisions that affect their lives - Children and young people affected by conflict have improved access to good quality education resulting in skills that increase their life opportunities and - Improved government policies, legislation and practice resulting in the better protection of conflict affected children and young people's needs and rights.