DiDe is a Rwandan Non-Government Organization working in peace building, including Institutional capacity of correctional services and societal healing.

It is registered under No 597/RGB/NGO/LP/03/2020 as “ORGANISATION DIGNITE EN DETENTION/ RWANDA (DIDE)”.

DiDe was created in 1992 in Geneva, Switzerland. Its activities in Rwanda started in 1998 in Gitarama prison and later in Nyagatare, starting with infrastructure rehabilitation.

The vision of DiDe was to promote a safe and secure environment for people in conflict with the law, resulting from upholding the rule of law and human rights principles and practices during and after detention.

DiDé has been conducting projects in Rwanda for more than 25 years, mainly focusing on women and adolescents in detention as the most vulnerable groups.
From 2013, DiDe expanded its interventions from the correctional facilities to the community with focus on social reintegration and prevention of potential crimes and/or recidivism. This prevention relies on combatting against poverty and inequalities that seem to be the main sources of crimes and discrimination.

Inclusive and empowered society

• Dignity
• Inclusion
• Empowerment
• Partnership

1. Institutional capacity of correctional services
– Enabling environment
– Child protection
– Education and vocational training
– Youth and Women empowerment
– Community reintegration

2. Societal healing

– Mental health and psychosocial support
– Social cohesion
– Gender equality
– Rehabilitation and reintegration of population in correction facilities
– Collaborative economic livelihoods

• Advocacy for a conducive environment
– In correctional facilities: appropriate infrastructure, education and vocational training, specific needs for youth, female and male inmates, and under 3 years old children living with their mothers in correction facilities
– In community: children in foster families, youth, women and ex-inmates to access to different services
• Economic empowerment for community resilience
• Integration of gender equality and women empowerment (leadership, decision making, distribution of roles and resources) using Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool.
• Community psychosocial support.
• Community mobilization against Gender based violence.
• Community dialogue, mediation and reconciliation.
• Nutrition support (fruit tree planting, kitchen gardens, small livestock and cooking demonstration).
• Climate change (biogas in correctional facilities, tree planting).
• Rehabilitation and reintegration of detainees.

DiDe Rwanda works across the country, including in 8 Correctional Facilities. Currently, our program interventions cover Nyarugenge, Rulindo, Musanze, Nyabihu, Gicumbi, Nyagatare, Ngoma, Nyamagabe, Bugesera, Rwamagana, Huye, Nyamasheke and Rusizi districts.

For its daily activities, DiDe counts on a dedicated multidisciplinary team of:
– 1 Gender Inclusion Specialist
– 2 Psychologists
– 1 Sociologist
– 1 Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
– 1 Finance Specialist
– 1 Communication Specialist