The 5 years strategic plan pushes to ensure the judicious and productive use of the environment and natural resources present in Rwanda. This is based on the deteriorating condition of the quantity and quality of this resource. The effective goal is to support equitable and sustained national development and poverty reduction.

The policy represents the government’s commitment to protecting children and fighting child labour. This is in line with the endorsement by the government of Rwanda of the International Labour Convention of 1973 concerning the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment; and the International Labour Convention of 1999 concerning Worst Forms of Child Labour. The government thus intends to eliminate all forms of child labour, and create enabling environment to address child labour’s underlying issues.

The national tree reproductive materials strategy aims to drive the supply of genetically adapted tree reproductive materials. This is in a bid to boost sustainable production and the establishment of forest plantations that can contribute towards the push for a green economy in Rwanda. It prioritises two strategic goals; goal 1 deals with production, promotion, processing, storage systems, and quality control of tree reproductive materials, while goal 2 pushes to leverage on research to ensure long-term sustainability.

The National Water Resources Master Plan of Rwanda (NWRPM) is the framework for the implementation of objectives and statements of the National Policy for Water Resources Management. The general objective of the Master Plan is to ensure sustainable water resources development, utilization and management in Rwanda. serving as a blueprint for sustainable water, land and resources development, it aims to maximize economic and social benefits accruable from water resources, and further promote the safety of the environment.

The strategy notes that despite the efforts and interventions of the government, a significant proportion of the population still lives in abject poverty, or are vulnerable to poverty. The strategy sets out interventions across 2 main spheres: regular and predicable cash transfer to support people living in, and vulnerable to poverty; and ensuring unhindered and unconditional access to basic public services such as education and health.

The contingency plan draws on historical facts and experiences of floods and landslides in coming up with scenario managers and assumptions to combat such issues as they may arise. The plan prioritises places and regions especially prone to floods and landslides. Its overall objective is to ensure a timely and coordinated response to floods and landslides disasters, in a bid to minimise their effects on citizens, properties, and the environment.

The ministerial order highlights conditions necessary for marketing quality seeds in Rwanda. It states that seeds taking the status of quality seeds should have been produced strictly under the principles and regulations guiding the production of quality seeds.

The ministerial order sets out the modalities for the importation, marketing, and distribution of aquaculture and fisheries products, equipment, and materials. The products classified by relevant authorities are; living fish, fish eggs, fresh, frozen, cooled, preserved fish or processed fish prepared by salting, smoking, drying, molluscs and shellfish. The equipment and materials under the scope of this order include all aquaculture and fishing inputs, including vessels, nets, bow nets, hooks, lamps, fish feeds, drugs, and other fishing inputs and fish productions.

The order ratifies the loan agreement between the Republic of Rwanda and the import-export bank of India.

The ministerial order addresses hygiene issues, as it relates to beekeeping and the use of toxic substances. It expressly makes provisions for beekeeper hygiene, hygiene of beehives and equipment, use of toxic substances in beekeeping and contamination prevention, and measures to be taken in response to perceived or confirmed bee diseases.

The order withdraws from classified status, the Kanembwe Forest of two hundred and eleven hectares, seventy-seven acres, and eighty-six centiares situated in the Western Province, Rubavu District, Rubavu Sector.

The order spells out the organizational structure, functioning, responsibilities, and inter-agency working relationship of the district of the land bureau. The district of land bureau sees to land management, administration, and use, at the district level.

The law defines the mission, organization, and functions of the national youth council in Rwanda. Youths in Rwanda are classified based on age, between sixteen, and thirty years. The council has a distinct legal personality and enjoys financial and administrative autonomy. The council is to be supervised by the ministry of youth in Rwanda.

The ICT4RAg was developed to integrate the use of information and communications technology for improved agricultural efficiency. The strategy realizes the existence of ICT platforms, and the need to create a clear direction to coordinate these platforms and other future ones. It seeks to ensure ICT’s contribution to sustainable agriculture is maximized and complement other crucial government strategies and policies.

The plan expressly addresses the management activities to be carried out by stakeholders when handling disaster situations. Prominent disasters faced in Rwanda include; droughts, fire, floods, earthquakes, landslides, heavy rain with strong winds, lightning and thunderstorms, traffic accidents, diseases and epidemics.

The government of Rwanda, in its quest for sustainable production of food, cash, export, and industrial crops developed the 10year irrigation master plan to maximally utilise surface and underground water resources available for the full promotion of irrigation in the country. The plan seeks to address the need for irrigation, arising as a result of the uneven distribution of rainfall and water resources in the country. Phase one of the plan successfully identifies national potential irrigation areas, while phase two seeks to validate the findings of phase one and explore the detailed design aspect of the individual irrigation scheme.

Rwanda has an ambitious goal of 100% water service coverage in the country as enshrined in its vision 2020. The multi-sectoral policy and strategy are charged at exploring approaches to achieving the targets set in other national and international policies like vision 2020, the MDGs, and the economic development and poverty reduction strategy (EDPRS). It also serves as an update to the water supply and sanitation policy of 2004.

The plan highlights the government’s directions charged towards achieving the medium to long term policy actions and objectives captured in the 2018 national forest policy. Its objectives range from promoting active private sector participation and investment to ensuring sustainable forest management through implementing integrated forest management plans.

This serves as a revised policy to the national disaster management policy of 2009. The policy sets out to establish the guiding principles for stakeholders. It highlights the roles, institutional structures, authorities, and key processes crucial to mounting a coordinated approach at decision making and effective response and management of disasters.

The contingency plan charts the course of action to be taken as part of efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from droughts. The National Contingency Plan for Drought is a multi-sectoral plan to maximally reduce drought impacts via institutional coordination, enhance monitoring and early warning capabilities, water shortage impact assessments, and preparedness, response, and recovery programs. The plan identifies an integrated, regional approach to addressing drought and drought action levels.