Assessment of Rwanda Refugee Camps in the Context of the Villagization Process
Undergraduate researcher for the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity and Engaged Learning Fellow Sienna Dugan, researched secondary sources and primary research through site visits, participatory observation, and interviews with key informants to compile this report which is structured like a case study with additional literature review. All photography is original to the student from her in-field research.
Undergraduate researcher for the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity and Engaged Learning Fellow Sienna Dugan, researched secondary sources and primary research through site visits, participatory observation, and interviews with key informants to compile this report which is structured like a case study with additional literature review. All photography is original to the student from her in-field research.
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Figure 6 – Pie Charts by Disease
report negative feedback, complaining that: medical centers often turn down refugees even in cases
of emergency, they often times cannot afford to pay the 10% required co-pay and that medical
centers are often too great of a distance without means of transportation. In 2015, in Mahama
Camp, a primary health center was constructed by the American Refugee Committee.
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accordance with the CRRF framework, the facility has been upgraded to more durable and
dignified structures which can be used by the host community as well. Another health center was
subsidiarity built in order to ensure access to the growing population of the camp. Secondary and
tertiary services are accessible by referral to decentralized national hospitals.10
10 “Rwanda Operational Updates and Factsheets - UNHCR Rwanda.” UNHCR, September. 2018, www.unhcr.org/rw/rwanda-operation-monthlyfactsheets.
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