Research on Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment and Social Protection. The Impacts of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP)

Sara Pavanello, Pamela Pozarny, Ana Paula De la O Campos, and Nynne Warring

ABSTRACT

The present report summarizes findings of the first PtoP case study on rural women’s economic empowerment and focuses on the public works component of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP) – the Government of Rwanda’s flagship programme for poverty reduction providing countrywide social protection. The research was based on a mixed method approach comprising in-depth qualitative methods and quantitative surveys conducted in Rwanda during the autumn of 2014.