Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA) is undertaking an activity of gathering information across the country in an effort of improving the plan of resettling 360,000 families in villages not later than 2018.
Families expected to be relocated are currently settled in risky zones likely to be affected by disasters.
In an interview with IGIHE, Protais Mpayimana, the Head of Rural Settlement Division said that RHA employees started field visits identifying locations where citizens in high risk zones will be resettled.
Mpayimana revealed that some locations need establishment of infrastructures including water, electricity and roads to fit with the relocation program. The locations in which people will be resettled have been selected by local leaders considering regions in safe zones.
RHA is now undertaking evaluation to identify available infrastructures, displaced citizens and others living in risky zones.
More than 138,000 families have so far been relocated from risky zones to modern villages, since November 2016 while the government targetings to have relocated 360,000 families from risky zones by 2018.
It is expected that more than 120,000 families will have been relocated by 2016
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