Imidugudu

Imidugudu, meaning villages (sing. umudugudu), are the smallest administrative divisions of Rwanda. Imidugudu are the result of a forced villagization program that was launched on 13 December 1996 by a decision of the Rwandan Cabinet which set out to concentrate the entire rural population in such villages.

Rwanda today has more than 14,000 imidugudu, each of which houses about a hundred families.