The government of Rwanda has among its goals, to achieve education for all and to improve health status for the population. The National School Health Strategic Plan contains strategies and frameworks necessary to achieve the above-mentioned goals. It identifies the roles schools can play in ensuring the safety and promotion of children’s health. It contains areas of specialization and issues that need to be addressed to facilitate the beneficial connection between education and the health condition of schoolchildren.

The consumer protection policy aspires to create an enabling environment for businesses and enterprises to thrive. Such an environment tends to foster competition with an accompanying increase in efficiency and economic growth for both consumers and producers. This policy seeks to not act as a vindictive exercise but to promote fair trade. This is in a bid to ensure consumers are not left at the mercy of a few firms and enterprises that take advantage of uncompetitive environments. These firms engage in activities such as price-fixing, collusive tendering, and speculative hoarding to the detriment of consumers.

This implementation plan highlights the resolve of the government to develop strategies to fast track the implementation of the nine-year basic education goal. The nine-year basic education goal aims to ensure all Rwandan children have equitable access to quality 6 years primary education and first 3 years of secondary education without paying any form of school fee. “This Concept Note recommends the use of three strategies; specialization of teachers, reduction of core courses and doubles shifting. This is to ensure reduced costs and time to complete the rollout of the Nine Years Basic Education in Rwanda”.

This framework contains the fiscal policy objectives of the government of Rwanda for the three years under review in the economic context in which the budget will be presented. This is in line with the laws and stipulations on state finances and property and the country’s commitments as contained in the second EDPRS and vision 2020. The budget framework highlights the government’s drive to bridge the fiscal gap and reduce reliance on external aid by improving revenue generation and rationalizing expenditures.

The government of Rwanda is pushing for the attainment of universal education in Rwanda. This strategy is developed to guide the implementation of the special needs and inclusive education policy. It works towards ensuring the aims, objectives, and targets set out in the policy document is attained. This aligns with the drive to ensure citizens with special needs are not left out of equitable access to quality education and active participation in all aspects of society. This strategic plan is also aligned with the ESSP 2018-2024 and the national strategy for transformation.

The strategy aims to address the challenges facing the dairy sector. These challenges include increasing cattle population, costs of production associated with producing and marketing milk, low consumer demand, and lack of policy direction to harmonize and coordinate private sector players in the sector.

This strategy marks the government of Rwanda’s Medium-term strategy for economic growth, poverty reduction, and human development. The strategy recognizes the long, and necessary path Rwanda has toured since the aftermath of the genocidal activities of 1994. It notes the relative stability it has attained since it started its recovery process. The EDPRS contains strategies and targets at consolidating achievements in human development. Floating of flagship program towards poverty reduction, good governance, and sustainable growth is also chiefly contained in this document.

Nutrition is a key element enshrined in the Millennium Development Goals of the UN. The events of the 90s left Rwandans in a poor nutritional situation. Various government interventions like the community based nutritional scheme have done little to alleviate the dire situation. Issues of maternal and child malnutrition are still rampant and consequently contributing significantly to the high morbidity and mortality rate in Rwanda. This policy highlights the government’s renewed vigour towards holistically tackling the issue of malnutrition through the enactment of effective guiding principles, strategies, and implementation guidelines for effective nutrition interventions.

This strategic document overviews Rwanda’s export sector, its challenges and inherent opportunities. It has a goal to improve export growth, create jobs and revenues, contribute significantly to the economy, and increase the general living standards of the populace. This strategy aims to prioritize sectors like tea, coffee, tourism and mining, as well as horticulture among others. It hopes to achieve its goal by rallying and organizing relevant stakeholders towards focusing on human capital development, business environment, finance, and infrastructure.

The government of Rwanda has a long-term vision to propel the economy into a middle-income one and significantly reduce poverty to less than 20% of its population. Prominent among other crucial visions of the government is the quest to increase the investment by the private and export sectors. This is to ensure the country earns more foreign earnings to improve its balance of payment position. This policy has a goal to achieve this by stimulating the public sector to fulfil its potential of creation of wealth and enabling an environment for the private sector to thrive.

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.