The Ministry of Local Administration is a cabinet of the Rwanda government. Their project, “The Counting of Genocide Victims" had three main objectives: 1) to find the names of the families and victims of genocide; 2) to uncover the number of genocide victims across the country; and 3) to identify the areas most affected by genocide for the purposes of aid allocation. Funding for this research is unknown.

Ministry of Local Administration developed a committee comprised of members from the National University of Rwanda, National Office of Population, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Gender and Feminism, and the Ministry of Youth Culture and Sport. The committee designed the survey and training materials for the enumerators. Sixty provincial (the largest geographic level) supervisors were selected to recruit 724 “comptrollers” on training the enumerators. Lastly, 1825 enumerators were selected to implement the survey. The surveys were collected, coded, and analyzed for the purpose of a report that has yet to be published. Some limitations of the study include carelessness in data collection, the inability of respondents to recollect events during the genocide, the fear on the part of victims to be sequestered based on testimony, the lack of witnesses in particular regions where all individuals were killed.

Reference: Ministry of Local Affairs (Ministere De L'Adminstration Locale, De L'Information Et Des Affaires Sociales). 2002. Denombrement Des Victimes Du Genocide. Rapport Final. Republique Rwandaise. B.P. 3445 Kigali.

The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Culture is a cabinet of the Rwandan government. They engaged in a project "The Commission for the Memorial of the Genocide and Massacre in Rwanda" whose purpose was to provide information to researchers and the general public on the Rwandan genocide. While the Ministry of Higher Education designed the project, it was executed with the assistance from other ministries including: Labour and Social Affairs, Rehabilitation and Social Integration, Home Affairs and Communal Development, Family Affairs and Women’s Development and Defense. The project was funded by HCDH, UNICEF, GTZ, and UNESCO/PEER.

The report that emerged from their data collection effort was a product of the two and a half month research project. The methods of obtaining the necessary information occurred in several stages: 1) initiating contact with the prefecture and commune officials, 2) visiting the sites, and 3) recording testimonies and any available information about each individual genocide site. A fourth stage involved acquiring testimonies associated with the specific area in question. In order to gather the most accurate information, only those who were present during the genocide were interviewed. The main problem with this effort was that differing information would exist for each site.

The mass-grave identification project was undertaken by the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Sport with assistance from the Ministries of Social Affairs, Rehabilitation of Social Integration, Communal Development, Family and the Promotion of Women, and the Ministry of Defense. Using contacts throughout the country to identify all sites of mass killing, these ministries used forensic evidence to ascertain the number of victims that existed in each locale. This was initiated in and completed in 1995.

Reference: Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport (Ministere de L'Enseignement Superieur, De La Recherche Scientifique Et De La Culture). 1996. Rapport Preliminaire D'Identification Des Sites Du Genocideet Des Massacres D'Avril-Juillet 1994 Au Rwanda. Commission Pour Le Memorial Du Genocide Et Des Massacres Au Rwanda, B.P. 624 Kigali.