She added: "Rishi Sunak has staked his position on this scheme. He must account for this fiasco." Refugee Council chief executive Enver Solomon said: "These figures reveal the extortionate bill the taxpayer will have to pay the Rwandan government for an unworkable and inhumane scheme that...
The National Audit Office, a public spending watchdog, has estimated it will cost the UK £540 million (€626 million) to deport the first 300 migrants -- nearly £2 million per person. Charities have said the scheme is unworkable and, given the small numbers involved, would do little ...
"We have a high degree of confidence about how people will be received in Rwanda," he said, adding that the new scheme is the result of nine months of detailed preparations. Quizzed on the costs of the new partnership, which some have estimated at more than £1m per person, he claim...
The Rwandan Health Insurance System It is said that the poorest citizens in Rwanda are entitled to free health in- surance, while the wealthiest pay premiums of $8 per adult monthly. Approx- imately 90% of the Rwandan population is covered by this scheme. The gov- ernment system is ...
The PCA weighting scheme does not consider how indicator influence might change across the district. Since PCA analysis is a global statistical analysis, factors and components loadings will not vary at the local scale, and therefore extracted components using the standard PCA do not depend on ...
Subscriptions were standardised at 1000 RwF (1.7USD at the time) per person per year, although some donors argued that it was too high.13 At this rate, however, relying only on population contribution was not sustainable. Furthermore, the scheme remained unaffordable for the poorest, which ...
It initiated the “seal of quality” certification scheme which lays out a set of practices and standards for proper handling of raw milk along the value chain, and launched milk consumption behaviour change campaigns such as “shisha wumva” (which literally means “feel the goodness”). This...
While the scheme goes under the name of ‘Community based health insurance’, it does not have the typical characteristics ascribed to these types of schemes. It is strongly managed from above, owned by the state and seems to function more like a parastatal, with compulsory membership through ...
"We have a high degree of confidence about how people will be received in Rwanda," he said, adding that the new scheme is the result of nine months of detailed preparations. Quizzed on the costs of the new partnership, which some have estimated at more than £1m per person,...
Similarly, the UK-Rwanda scheme is officially known as the UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership. Doris Uwicyeza, lead legal negotiator for the partnership, has implied that the welfare of particularly vulnerable refugees would not be a concern, as Rwanda would receive ‘...