📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2014.9114.1
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
G220 Peace and Security
Contact person:
Suzanne Gentges suzanne.gentges@giz.de
Partner countries:
Rwanda
SUMMARY
Goals:
Promoting the integration of refugees as a contribution to peacebuilding
Client:
not available
Project partners:
Without political sponsor - directly with the population or non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
6 673 348 euros
Current project:
6 673 348 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
Engagement Global GmbH: 6 673 348 euros
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
01.12.2014 - 31.12.2026
Current project:
30.10.2014 - 31.12.2026
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
15220 Civilian peace development, crisis prevention and conflict resolution
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Serious human rights violations by countless militias and the regular armed forces in eastern Congo as well as the electoral crisis in Burundi in 2015 prompted thousands of residents of these countries to seek refuge in Rwanda.
Refugees and Rwandans now live close together and often share the same infrastructure and few resources. Prejudice and mistrust prevail on both sides due to inequality and unequal treatment. These challenges and the psychological stress suffered by refugees subsequently generate conflicts and violence - both within the refugee camps and between the residents of the refugee camps and the host communities.
Objective
Young people from refugee camps and the surrounding host communities overcome prejudices and resolve their conflicts non-violently.
Approach
The project supports measures in the Mahama, Kigeme and Mugombwa refugee camps of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and in the surrounding host communities.
With its partner organizations Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle (VJN), Ejo Youth Echo (EYE), Église Evangélique des Amis au Rwanda (EEAR) and the Legal Aid Forum (LAF), it promotes a culture of peace between refugees and host communities. It uses creative and interactive methods such as conflict-sensitive media production, educational cinema, forum theater and sport.
The project also trains local service providers and works with representatives who have leadership roles in the camp and host communities on non-violent conflict resolution.
It also supports accompanying measures by the Association Rwandaise de Conseillers en Traumatisme (ARCT Ruhuka) and Life Wounds Healing Association (LIWOHA), whic
