Public Institution Policy and Child Welfare in Rwanda: A Case of Duhamic Adri Kicukiro District

Abstract

This research entitled “Public institution policy and child welfare in Rwanda, was carried out into one general objective which was: to evaluate the effects of public institution policy on child welfare in Kicukiro District-Rwanda. The study tackled on how to improve child welfare regardless of child hardships such as poverty among families. Some of families in Kicukiro District fail to send their children to school with results being hardships during their early ages. Descriptive research design was employed as a blueprint to guide the study. The sample size of this study is 190 respondents, selected from DUHAMIC ADRI beneficiaries, head of families, local authorities such as district and sector social affairs and owners. The purposive sampling technique; stratified random sampling and purposive techniques were used. Data collection methods were questionnaire and interviews in terms of focus group interview guide. The findings showed that 78.5% were at the agreement side that stakeholders play a big role in the implementation of public policies to child welfare activities, 87.9% of the local leaders affirmed that to ensure child welfare, ones should build the capacity of the families. A multiple regression analysis show that child welfare monitoring is more likely to affect the improvement of child welfare with a p value of 0.002, the correlation between ensuring child labor monitoring and reduction of child labor rate is revealed to be significant with a p value of 0.000, all other independent variables were statistically correlated with the child welfare since their p value was less than 0.05. The recommendations were drawn to the City of Kigali-Kicukiro District leadership which should enhance its monitoring and evaluation in order to ensure that child labor monitoring is implemented accordingly, while Kicukiro District and Sector levels should conduct regular inspections in order to maintain the labor laws and identify whether there are places where children indulge in child hardship.

Key Words: Child welfare, Child Protection Policy, Child Labour, and Child Right.