Karongi and Rutsiro JADFs

Mission of JADFs

The mission of JADF is ”  to ensure a sustainable socio-economic development and improved service delivery for Rwandan communities through active participation, dialogue, and accountability by sharing information, effective coordination of stakeholders’ interventions in decentralized entities”.

The functioning of JADF

JADF members come from institutions and organisations operating at District level including public, private, local and international NGOs, Faith-based organisations and other development partners.

JADF serves as a non-hierarchical discussion platform in which every member has equal role to play: representing their constituency, provide open, complete and transparent information about their development activities and results, discuss progress made in the District towards sustainable and inclusive local development, learn and eventually improve. Thus, JADF meetings are a key platform facilitating the implementation of effective decentralization by providing a forum for service provision and development planning accountability.

JADF builds on the traditional values of solidarity and mutual support towards a common agenda of ensuring the social welfare of people. JADF applies the traditional practice that any activity or pressing duty that could not have been handled without the help of the community could be assisted upon.

Traditional practices used to engage people individually in the past are replicated today at institution level by JADF after combining them with modern participatory concepts, such as: creating a space for inclusive dialogue, synergy and accountability, establishing a shared agenda of development in the District and determining outcomes to be monitored and peer-reviewed.

AJEMAC is a member of JADF (Joint Action Development Forum) of Karongi and Rutsiro Districts.

As part of its contribution to the JADFs of Karongi and Rutsiro Districts where it operates, AJEMAC is directly involved in the development activities of those areas, depending on the plans and commitments that have been established due to the priorities that the people have expressed as problems that threaten them in their development.

In this regard, AJEMAC, based on these programs, also prepares a 5-year strategic plan and an annual action plan, so that it can demonstrate its role.