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Challenges of Measuring Graduation in Rwanda

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  • Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler
  • Samantha Yates
  • Emily Wylde
  • Justine Gatsinzi

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Rwanda demonstrates how a process of community consultation and participation is able to identify and rank community members according to ‘social poverty’, drawing on the Ubudehe tradition which is considered a strength of Rwanda's social fabric. However, with the Ubudehe categorisation now the basis for determining eligibility to a range of social benefits, the process has come under some strain. This article highlights two issues related to targeting and graduation: (1) the difficulty in identifying the poor/non‐poor and ranking the population using community participatory techniques; and (2) the sensitivity of eligibility criteria and graduation thresholds to different targeting modalities. Our primary interest is to establish whether improvements for identifying the poor and non‐poor can be made without undermining community ownership and what these improvements would look like. This will be useful for policymakers in Rwanda as the new five‐year development strategy places importance on graduating households out of extreme poverty.

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  • Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler & Samantha Yates & Emily Wylde & Justine Gatsinzi, 2015. "Challenges of Measuring Graduation in Rwanda," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(2), pages 103-114, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:46:y:2015:i:2:p:103-114
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    1. Tom Lavers, 2016. "Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda.s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme," Working Paper Series UNU-WIDER Working Paper w, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Chemouni, Benjamin, 2018. "The political path to universal health coverage: Power, ideas and community-based health insurance in Rwanda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 87-98.
    3. Alexis Rulisa & Luuk Kempen & Dirk-Jan Koch, 2023. "Exploring willingness-to-pay for ‘malaria-free’ rice among rural consumers in Rwanda: examining the potential for a local voluntary standard," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 11(1), pages 1-27, December.
    4. Alexis Rulisa & Luuk van Kempen & Dirk-Jan Koch, 2022. "When Local Trade-Offs between SDGs Turn Out to Be Wealth-Dependent: Interaction between Expanding Rice Cultivation and Eradicating Malaria in Rwanda," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-24, February.
    5. Tom Lavers, 2016. "Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme," WIDER Working Paper Series 093, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    6. Habimana, Dominique & Haughton, Jonathan & Nkurunziza, Joseph & Haughton, Dominique Marie-Annick, 2021. "Measuring the impact of unconditional cash transfers on consumption and poverty in Rwanda," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 23(C).
    7. Tom Lavers, 2016. "Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-93, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    8. Tom Lavers, 2016. "Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series esid-068-16, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    9. Benjamin Chemouni, 2016. "The political path to universal health coverage: Elite commitment to community-based health insurance in Rwanda," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series esid-072-16, GDI, The University of Manchester.

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