Rwanda - Emergency humanitarian assistance to refugees from Burundi

This intervention concerns Emergency humanitarian assistance to refugees from Burundi. It’s designed to contribute to: a) Ensuring timely supply of firewood in the refugee camps in order to mitigate the consequences related to the insufficient quantity of firewood as it results in conflicts with the host communities; b) Promoting the use of alternative sources of energy such as the supply of energy saving cooking stoves to reduce biomass consumption and ensure environmental sustainability. The increased refugee population currently estimated at 144,000 and their demand for firewood has put a lot of pressure on the country’ environment and depleted available emergency finance assistance reserves in the National Treasury. The project comprises three main components, namely: (1) Procuring firewood; (2) Procuring energy saving cooking stoves and (3) Audit and Administrative costs.