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📘 Social protection made reconstruction reach households

After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, recovery had to address destroyed livelihoods as well as damaged institutions. Social protection became one way to connect national reconstruction with household survival: cash support, public work

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What you’ll learn

  1. Recovery needed a safety netExplain why social protection became part of Rwanda's post-genocide reconstruction.Recovery connected household survival to public institutions through transfers, work, services, and targeted support.

Questions this course answers

Why did VUP use more than one component?

Direct support and work opportunities address different constraints.

What is the key problem with a universal work requirement?

Protection must distinguish inability from unwillingness.

Why can targeted survivor support and universal services belong together?

Specific responsibility and universal citizenship are different but compatible aims.

What does health-risk pooling try to prevent?

Pooling spreads costs across members and time.

Why is a formal entitlement not enough?

Access depends on the service system as well as the rule or payment.

How can school feeding support social protection?

Nutrition, learning, and household budgets are connected.

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