Towards self sufficiency and integration: an historical evaluation of assistance programmes for Rwandese refugees in Burundi, 1962 - 1965

This paper tells the story of how several of the world’s leading international organizations combined efforts and expertise in an attempt to implement a self-sufficiency and integration programme for Rwandese refugees and the local adjacent populations in Burundi in the 1960s. It explores and evaluates the programme, implemented in four refugee settlements, and identifies the factors which made it succeed and which made it fail; drawing out important lessons learned along the way.