RISD, a Rwandan NGO, presented its study of land use and implementation of villagisation in Kigali Rural, Ruhengeri, Gikongoro and Butare to offer an informed contribution to land policy development and the villagisation process and to stimulate discussion and dialogue through dissemination of its findings. The paper examines the history of the policy, the main determining factors, and the problems which have surfaced. since its inception.

Paper at the Workshop on Land Use and Villagisation in Rwanda, organised by RISD (Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development), Hotel des Mille Collines, Kigali, Rwanda