As adopted and sanctioned by parliament, The law determines the structure, organisation and the functioning of the Higher Institute of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry (ISAE). “The institute is categorised as an higher institute of learning, research, and management, having legal personality. The institute has the mission of offering high level courses and conducts research in various fields relating to agriculture, animal husbandry, forests and environment to the extent that its students may acquire pratical knowledge which may help them assist the population in solving their problems”.

The law establishes the Rwanda food and drugs authority, and determines its mission, organization, and functioning. The law regulates among others; human and veterinary drugs and vaccines, herbal medicines, medicated cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco products, and laboratory and cleaning chemicals and pesticides.

The represents the presidential order ratifying the agreement for the global green growth institute, as signed by the republic of Rwanda at Seoul, South Korea in 2013. The GGGI sees to the sustainable development of developing and emerging countries.

The regulation addresses the technical requirements for design, installation, and operation of waste water treatment systems, licensing regimes and requirements, monitoring and enforcement, and administrative sanctions. It seeks to establish an efficient and affordable waste water treatment services

The consumer protection policy aspires to create an enabling environment for businesses and enterprises to thrive. Such environment tends to foster competition with accompanied 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 few firms and enterprises that take advantage 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 roll out 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 government’s drive to bridge fiscal gap and reduce reliance on external aids by improving revenue generation and rationalizing expenditures.

The government of Rwanda is pushing for attainment of universal education in Rwanda. This strategy is developed to guide 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 the society. This strategic plan is also aligned with the ESSP 2018-2024 and the national strategy for transformation.

The dairy sector, as part of the livestock industry is very crucial to the economy of Rwanda. It provides means of livelihood to a significant proportion of its population. The dairy strategy is quite important considering the dairy sector cuts across all pillars and cross-cutting issues contained in the vision 2020. It is also important with respect to the strategic plan for the transformation of agriculture in Rwanda and the EDPRS. 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 has 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 government’s renewed vigor 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 private and export sector. 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 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 on 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 strategic plan follows on from the first PSTA and covers a range that terminates the same time as the EDPRS. The main goals of this phase of the PSTA is to update the earlier PSTA, and ensure it aligns and keys into other relevant government plans and strategies including the EDPRS, the vision 2020, and the national investment strategy. PSTA II seeks to develop and guide the implementation of all activities geared towards the development of agriculture in Rwanda.

Moving Rwandan’s agriculture from subsistence based to a knowledge, market, and export driven one is essential to ensure the targets of the government are met. This policy recognizes the successes achieved by the EDPRS I driven mostly by agricultural interventions. “The third agricultural sector strategy seeks to facilitate the development of Rwanda’s agriculture through an approach based on resource management, human capacity and private sector driven value chains. The strategic vision for the next five years is a focus on both increased production of staple crops and livestock products. It also lays emphasis on greater involvement of the private sector to increase agricultural exports, processing and value addition”.

The vision 2020 highlights the resolve of the government of Rwanda to chart the course towards transition towards a democratic and united country. Attainment of a middle-income status driven by knowledge is a key component of this vision. It is hoped that this would translate into better living standard for Rwandans in all spheres of life. This vision is backed by six pillars including; good governance and an efficient State, skilled human capital, vibrant private sector, world class physical infrastructure and modern agriculture and livestock. These pillars are geared towards success in national, regional and global markets.

The EDPRS II follows from the achievements of EDPRS I. It seeks to address the challenges still militating against achieving the visions of the country as enshrined in the vision 2020. This phase aims to ensure the private sector takes a driving seat in the goal of poverty reduction and economic development.

RBM is a management strategy that involves setting targets for institutional workers and compelling them to meet such targets. This form of approach tends to maximize output from public officials to ensure value for tax payers funds is justified. This policy strives to provide principles, guidelines, rules, and rationale towards implementing this form of management strategy. The policy identifies past efforts aimed at performance management, prominent among which is the Imihigo; “a performance based and accountability mechanism”. However, this present policy focuses on digging deeper and drive performance of public officials to ensure the targets of its visions and goals are accomplished as at when due.

The SMART Rwanda masterplan is to serve as the backbone for the transformation agenda of the government. It sets out as a guide in the country’s quest for transformation of the society through “efficient processes, systems, and infrastructure”. It ultimately seeks to deliver the following dividends upon expiration; 24-hour self-service government by 2018, cashless and paperless government, significant contribution to the country’s GDP, creation of jobs through direct investment based on the masterplan, etc.