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 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.

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”.

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.