The national strategy for transformation represents the 7-year government program in Rwanda as the government transitions from its vision 2020 to the new vision 2050. It is expected that this transformation strategy will serve as a foundation on which other relevant policies will rally around to ensure high living standards for the people of Rwanda. It seeks to consolidate the achievements of EDPRS II and become the implementation tool for the remainder of vision 2020 as well as chart the course for the first four years of vision 2050.

This law amends Article 2 of Organic Law n° 11/2007 of 16/03/2007 concerning the transfer of cases to the Republic of Rwanda from the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda and other States.

The government of Rwanda has prioritized FP and ASRH to drive its vision for poverty reduction and improved socioeconomic conditions. This plan is aligned with other important government policies including visions 2020 and 2050, EDPRS III, HSSP IV, and the SDGs. It hopes to serve as a guide, outlining strategic directions towards FP and ASRH to improve well-being. The strategic plan highlights the renewal of the ministry’s resolve to deepen commitment levels to the importance of FP and ARSH. It specifies the need to involve men and youths to ensure greater efforts and coverage of the FP programs.

The document contains laws that establish Rwanda Standard Board abbreviated as “RSB”, National Industrial Research and Development Agency, Rwanda Management Institute. They also determine their missions, organizations and functioning.

This order ratifies the protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the international registration of trademarks adopted in Madrid, Spain in 1989.

This document is divided into two sections for laws and orders. The first section, which is the law, establishes the National Standards Inspectorate, Competition and Consumer Protection Authority abbreviated as “NICA”. It also determines its mission, organization and functioning. Section B includes presidential orders appointing the members of the Board of Directors of National Bank of Rwanda, the members of the Board of Directors of Broadband Service – Corporation Ltd, Rwanda Government Representative in Board of Directors of SONARWA, among others.

This law repeals Law No 41/2002 of 31/12/2002 establishing a special tax on imported sugar.

“These guidelines were compiled by the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Medicines Evaluation and Registration (MER) of the East African Community Medicine Regulatory Harmonization (EAC MRH) project. They relied on the registration requirements of their countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Medicines for Human Use (ICH). The guidelines were developed to provide direction to the ministry of health in managing applications for registration of human pharmaceutical products in Rwanda”

The government of Rwanda offers fiscal incentives and serviced lands to companies and industrialists. This government offer aligns with the drive to create a Rwandan free zone. The SEZ targets willing companies and aims to increase foreign direct investments (FDIs) and domestic private sector investment among other objectives. As a revised policy, it pushes to resolve issues raised in previous editions.

Cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, injuries and disabilities, oral, eye, and kidney diseases and other non-communicable diseases contribute significantly to mortality and morbidity rate. This policy will be integrated into existing health programs and will contribute towards the achievement of the targets in the MDGs, EDPRS II, and the vision 2020. This policy aims to address challenges faced in combatting NCDs as they epidemiologically transition from infectious to chronic in Rwanda.

Over the years, the government of Rwanda has rolled out reforms to drive the attainment of the country’s education goals as contained in the ESSP, the vision 2020, as well as international targets like the MDGs. Prominent among these reforms is the nine and twelve-year basic education plans. The adult education policy also ranks among such prominent reforms. It works towards bridging the generational gap in the education sector by providing the citizens with the needed skills to improve their general living conditions.

This policy focuses on maximizing the value accrued to the ministry of education from the usage of ICT. “This strategy aims to bring the various elements of ICT together and ensure that the ICT discipline works towards achieving a common, relevant and shared vision with the business. It defines the minimum acceptable ICT management practices necessary to facilitate the implementation of the agreed IT strategy”.

Mainly based on the health sector policy, this policy is also closely related to the health financing policy of 2010 which guides the sourcing of finances for health sector programs. The plan recognizes the steady progress of these policies and plans. It hopes to drive the sustainability of these policies and explore new ways of financing the health sector to further drive the government’s vision for universal health coverage.

The transition from an agrarian economy to a knowledge-driven middle-income economy by 2020 is the vision of the Rwandan government. The government also aims to incorporate ICT into all sectors by 2020 as enshrined in the vision 2020 of the government. The use of ICT in the education sector is expected to stimulate the activities of the sector and hasten the attainment of the sector’s goals as contained in the ESSP and other relevant documents.

The government of Rwanda aims to transform into a knowledge-based economy. This prompts the need to also modernize and transform the agricultural sector to improve its leverages on improved technologies and knowledge. This strategy focuses on achieving this by ensuring that every activity in form of policies and strategies of the sector is driven and based on knowledge obtained from research.

The handicraft sector in Rwanda has developed over the years, not as a result of a conscious effort on the part of the government but sporadically. This strategic document intends to address key issues including the absence of a comprehensive strategy to guide stakeholders; lack of coordination; the vagueness of quality control; and standardization efforts as well as little understanding of strategies for breaking into the foreign market.

Technological advancements have been directed at handling human resources challenges. This strategy recognizes the current gap in health sector targets with regards to the health workers-inhabitants ratio. This policy document aims to provide guidelines towards planning, monitoring, and coordination of human resources in the health sector.

This policy recognizes the need to diversify the Rwandan economy into other sectors to attain the vision 2020 goals. It highlights the current small size of the industrial sector in terms of its contributions and the need for significant improvement by 2020. The policy additionally pushes to improve the sector’s contribution to the reduction of unemployment in the country. It hopes to ensure the country’s firms and enterprises can compete effectively in light of political developments.

This investment plan contains an overview of prevailing conditions in the livestock sector in Rwanda. It contains ways by which animals can be improved and how these improvement plans can be implemented. The need for this strategy arises out of the quest to raise agricultural efficiency across the entire value chain. This need is borne out of the inability of the government to allocate more land to agriculture and increase the livestock population.

This health package for schools focuses on complimenting existing government efforts geared at ensuring general well-being in the school environment. It contains the minimum requirements to ensure school environments are healthy and conducive, for schoolchildren, teachers, parents, and other members of staff.