Social Protection

As one of the implementing agencies of social protection programmes, the Local Administrative Entities Development Agency (LODA) is mandated to play a key role in the country’s socio-economic transformation through local participatory mechanisms to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce moderate poverty.

Social Protection

Our primary responsibility is the coordination and the implementation of the Graduation Strategy among key stakeholders (development partners, districts and NGOs/CSOs) to ensure that vulnerable households are supported to graduate from poverty.

We focus on the implementation of social safety nets and livelihoods, as well as the funding of community and household projects.

LODA has the following key responsibilities under Social Protection:

  1. Alignment of policies and institutional arrangements (governance framework, multi-sectoral approach, guidelines and training of staff);
  2. Understanding clients and effectively support them (Sector & Cell staff, Para-social workers, Graduation contract);
  3. Implementation of the Vision Umurenge Program (VUP), including Safety nets, Livelihoods and the various social protection programs;
  4. Implementation of the UBUDEHE Program, including the community self-help projects and individual household projects;
  5. Ensure vulnerable households have access to complementary services (para-social workers; NGOs, local service providers)
  6. Provision of a wider enabling environment (Infrastructure – markets, transport, land, electricity, …) for graduation from poverty;
  7. M&E, lesson learning and adaptive management.

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