1. Janvier Kubwimana CARE Rwanda
Application of Community Score Card in different settings of Women Empowerment “Experience of CARE Rwanda”
Janvier Kubwimana
CARE Rwanda

2. Overview: Women in Power and Decision making Rwanda leads the world in terms of women’s representation in parliament: 56% between and from 2014 at 64% (Rwanda statistical year book, 2014) 30% minimum quote for women’s representation in decision making organs
District Councils-38%
Judiciary-40%
Female Governors-40%
Female Ministers-40%

3. At the community level: How does the picture look like?
Prepared/ equipped to meaningfully occupy?

4. What is the CSC? The CSC is a participatory governance tool
that brings together community members, service providers, and local government to identify service utilization and provision challenges, and to mutually generate solutions, and work in partnership to implement and track the effectiveness of those solutions in an ongoing process of improvement.
Underlying Rights Based Principles
Participation and inclusion of voice
Accountability and transparency
Equity
Shared responsibility

5. Theory of change-Governance work
If Women are empowered through VSLA
Improved &
increased
quality of services & Rights
If- Women are confident to raise voice in local government planning & decision making process
Then
If-Meaningful participation of Women (action taking) in social accountability

6. Why CSC?
CARE Rwanda’s Approaches to enhance women’s participation in decision making processes
Women’s poverty and vulnerability stem from (among others) accountability challenges and issues related to collective action and problem-solving around socio-cultural norms issues.
Meaningful participation of grassroots level
Women Emp. at agency level
HH & family support
Social support

7. Main Stages Follow up on the agreed action plan
Monitoring of implementation of the action plans
Meetings with decision makers
Follow up on the agreed action plan
Scoring by service providers/Local authorities
CSC with service providers/Local leaders
Problem identification and scoring exercises undertaken by citizens
CSC with the community
Gather info on services/rights that citizens are entitled to
Preparation/input tracking

8. Main outcomes Actions from increased awareness:
Increased trust between LA and communities
Greater awareness about GBV rights and services
Improvements in service delivery
Increased confidence and influence

9. Changing attitudes and behaviours
Outcomes, cont.
Changing attitudes and behaviours
Perceived reduction of GBV
Broader impact on services

10. Learning from the scorecard experience
The CSC is not a rigid one-size-fits-all solution to improving developmental outcomes. Rather, it needs to be applied as a flexible tool that can and should be adapted to the distinct contextual and operational environment in which it is implemented and based on the objectives and changes it intends to produce.
The specific objective of a project will shape the design and implementation approach of a CSC initiative.
Entry points and their mechanisms are key when implementing a CSC. Decisions on these need to be considered carefully against the project objectives and the broader context.
The operational conditions of a CSC are critical and will affect programming implications. The background and approach of implementing partners will help with filtering and processing the project objectives, adapting the process even when these decisions are not deliberate.
Scalability-sustainability- Gisagara district successfully adopted CARE’s CSC as an innovative model to engage citizens in giving feedback on the state of corruption and how it affects service delivery.

11. National tool for Citizen engagement
Way forward
National tool for Citizen engagement
CARE, GMO, PFTH
CSC