“This Master Plan seeks to review the fisheries and aquaculture situation in Rwanda. It takes into account historical perspective, current management, and the different cross cutting policies. It involves evaluation of past efforts and interventions in fisheries and aquaculture sectors. It further presents best options for moving the country towards self-reliance and sustainable development in terms of fisheries and aquaculture production”.

“This Roadmap plan discusses the current stage in the SWAp development process and gives short term and medium term recommendations for further steps towards a full SWAp. The government, through its ministry of health’s objective to grow towards an environment in the health sector of “One plan, one budget, one report” illustrates the felt need for harmonisation and alignment, so that jointly used systems lead to strengthened ministry leadership, increased effectiveness, efficiency, as well as transparency / mutual accountability. The purpose of this roadmap is not to replace HSSP framework and ongoing reforms. The adopted roadmap focuses specifically on actions towards enhancing a SWAp environment”.

The order addresses the organization of veterinary pharmacy practices in the country, including the import and export of veterinary medicines. It sets out the requirements for the practice of veterinary pharmacy, pharmaceutical establishments, and their control and inspection, among other provisions.

The order is pursuant to law 54 of 2008 on determination, prevention, and fight against contagious diseases for domestic animals in Rwanda. It covers aspects relating to the transport and trade of meat in the country. It discusses precautionary measures, vehicular requirements, clothings, meat trade establishment, and requirements of the actors involved.

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 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 are 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 condition.

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 with 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 sustainability of these policies and explore new ways of financing the health sector to further drive government’s vision for universal health coverage.

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 it 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 handcraft 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; absence of a comprehensive strategy to guide stakeholders, lack of coordination, 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 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 ensure attainment of its 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 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 government to allocate more land to agriculture and increase livestock population.

The government of Rwanda through its ministry of health acknowledges the important role effectively conducted research plays in ensuring sustainability of knowledge-based policies and strategies. Knowledge based policies ensure maximum benefit is achieved from implementation of such policies. This policy therefore defines the scope of health sector research and the guidelines to ensure researches are carried out in coordinated manners. It provides solutions to challenges inherent in health sector research.

The world is gradually tuning into the use of ICT as a tool to be incorporated in various socioeconomic objectives of the health, education, energy, and other crucial sectors. Through the various phases of the NICI plan, the government of Rwanda aims to leverage on the benefits of ICT. It plans to incorporate them into its sector wide policies, strategies, and plans. The government hopes this will facilitate and hasten the attainment of its long-term vision of becoming a knowledge driven economy by 2020. This particular phase seeks to focus on development of services to improve its delivery to citizens.

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 national strategy for transformation.

The national policy on fertilizer aims to create an enabling environment to facilitate private sector driven effective and competitive fertilizer initiative. It is hoped that the initiative will be capable of driving the government goals and targets for increased crop productivity. This policy is borne out of the need to address Rwanda’s current depleted soil condition caused by erosion and over cultivation. It intends to adhere to the fertilizer agreement and target enshrined in the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for an Agricultural Green Revolution.

The adult education policy of the government of Rwanda stirves to bridge the generational gap in the education sector by providing citizens with the needed skills to improve their general living condition. It is on this premise that the National Adult Education Strategic Plan has been developed to provide a detailed roadmap and framework for the effective implementation of the Adult Education Policy. “It has been designed as a tool for planning, coordination and monitoring to guide the Ministry of Education in implementing the Adult Education Policy. It defines the roles of its different partners for a harmonious development based on human resources and knowledge led/based economy as defined in Vision 2020”.

The government of Rwanda identifies the ESSP as an important achievement towards the development of the education sector. The ESSP contains priorities, targets and benchmarks to guide Rwanda’s education sector as it focuses on contributing towards poverty reduction and economic development. It is envisioned that this strategic plan will be subject to future reviews and reconstruction to aid its ultimate course of equitable universal access to education.