Impact of Land Use Consolidation Program on Socio-economic Development in Rwanda, case of Ruhango District

Abstract

The Purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of Land Use Consolidation Program to the socio-Economic Development of in Rwanda, case study of Ruhango district. The target population of this study will be 42913 people, from which a sample of 100 households head participating in Ruhango District Rwanda, where they was selected with different techniques.The participants was selected using a purposive sampling technique and random sampling. This study adopted a comparative descriptive design which used questionnaires and interviews as instruments of data collection. The quantitative data was first checked to find out blank entries so that they were filtered out and the remaining data was analyzed using SPSS version 21.0 in order to get the research findings correct and specific. It was also found the there was a high degree of positive correlation between land use towards socio economic development where Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation (r) was 0.803 this implies that land use consolidation contributed to the socio economic development positively and at high level.