Gisagara: What district’s officials do to combat people’s problems

The meeting was held on Monday evening, November 25^th, 2024, during which 469 proposals were submitted throughout the district; 179 were received in the economic pillar, 172 in social welfare, and 118 in good governance and justice. 347 were solved at the cell and sector levels, and 111 were promoted at the district level.

It was revealed that the people's wishes will be taken into account in the planning, budget, and commitments for the year 2025/2026. It is also intended to align these issues if there are those that need to be addressed quickly and those that will continue to be done day by day.

Karangwa Martin represents the members of the good governance body in Gisagara District who participated in collecting the people's requests. He was the one who explained the problems that were collected, saying that these problems that affect the people are collected in all the 13 sectors that make up the Gisagara District to be solved. 

“We are in all sectors of the district, gathering the requests of the people to receive the result. As of now in the Musha sector, they have a problem with electricity, they are asking for electricity to reach every home and public place. In the Mukindo sector, they have a problem with clean water, they are asking to be given clean water at the Mukiza Cell,” he said.

“In Kigembe Sector, they are asking for kindergarten rooms. They are also asking to help the youth get capital to start their businesses,” he added.

The Programme Manager in charge of monitoring activities in the FVA organization that implements the PPIMA project, Gakwaya Jean Marie Vianney says that these requests are collected from the community, and there are those that are resolved and delivered to the district’s level. He sees that the plan is paying off.

"We are partners of Gisagara District, a region where we give permission and cooperate with the people who are called witnesses of governance and the requests of their fellow citizens are collected;  there are exchanges of ideas that are resolved and there are those that are brought to the district’s level," he said.

“This is the second time this year, for the first time, opinions have been collected focusing on the service delivery from January to June.  So the second phase is the recommendations that they see as a threat and they want it to go into the budget," he denounced.

“Something they tell us has been solved and we feel proud.  For example, they said that they have one worker in the cell and they need a second worker. That problem was resolved accurately,” he revealed.

Habineza Jean-Paul, the vice mayor of Gisagara District in charge of economic development, says that there are issues that have been raised with donors and will be resolved immediately.

“There are proposed roads that are in the next year's budget; to facilitate traffic, the one from Rango to the Mugomba sector will be built," he said.

"There are also more than 20,000 classrooms that will be built in collaboration with the World Bank so that our kindergarten children get a place to learn close to their homes. We hope that this will protect them from bullying or ignorance, and increase their intelligence level,” he added.

This program to collect the opinions of the people living in Gisagara is a good platform for the people to express the pressing problems that are affecting their development. When they come into the hands of the authorities they are resolved.