The government of Rwanda through the Ministry of Health has identified family planning as one of its national priorities for the health sector. This is motivated by the need to achieve drastic poverty reduction and improved socioeconomic conditions. This plan recognizes the significant improvement that has been recorded in the usage of modern contraceptives by the citizenry. However, it also calls for renewed effort to ensure the EDPRS target of 70% contraceptive usage is attained by 2016. This strategic plan therefore seeks to deepen commitment levels to the importance of family planning. It places much importance on training and re-training the relevant stakeholders that will drive this goal.

The importance of building government policies, strategies, guidelines, and plans on detailed and well carried out research has been emphasized on by the government of Rwanda. Consequently, the ministry of health has developed this guideline to serve as a tool for researchers aiming to carry out health research in Rwanda. These guidelines seek to ensure a smooth process for researchers by clarifying the process, expectations, and benefits of doing research in Rwanda.

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 strateguc 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.

“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 registration requirements of their individual countries, 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”

This plan details strategies directed towards improving healthcare as it relates to ear and hearing. It attests to the challenges associated with awareness, detection, and management of ear and hearing issues. It’s objective is to improve healthcare wih respect to access, affordability, quality and efficiency towards achieving universal health coverage

The national health research agenda seeks to coordinate researchers in the health sector. It acknowledges already existing research efforts in the country and the uncoordinated way in which they have been conducted. It also perceives the need to ensure government policies, strategies, plans and efforts are research driven. It aims to ensure relevant and strategic areas are prioritised and the whole research efforts in the health sector are purposefully planned and coordinated.

The NFNP strives to consolidate on the achievements recorded in the areas of food security and Nutrition in the country. It serves as an update on the National Nutrition Policy of 2007. The NFNP highlights and aims to address the gaps and changes in prevailing conditions since 2007. It understands the linkage and interrelation that exists between food security and nutrition and the need to significantly improve both.

The second edition of the national export strategy aims to improve on the significant strides attained by the first strategy. It identifies the differences in stated targets between the first NES and other key government policies like the vision 2020 and the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) II. NES II attempts to address the differences and assess the ability to attain such targets.

This document identifies the important role played by the community health service in the overall development of the country’s health sector. It notes the challenges that need attention to ensure improved efficiency in discharging the sector’s mandate. This policy has been designed to complement other key government policies like the EDPRS, the vision 2020, and international goals like the MDGs.

Concerned organizations have risen over the years to offer eye health screening to school children. These organizations have been solely in charge of determining procedures, equipment, workers, as well as fees charged for the activities. However, the government is concerned about the uncoordinated way in which these screenings are carried out. The guidelines contained in this document therefore push towards addressing these concerns and coordinating the activities of eye health screening in Rwandan schools.

This master plan aims to develop the value chain of the livestock industry, specifically the milk chain. Rwanda is being faced with difficulties related to its landlocked status, its very high population density, and the difficulty associated with increasing land allocation for agriculture. The government therefore feels the need to decrease the number of farmers by improving value chain and moving them up to secondary and tertiary levels of production. It hopes to achieve this by focusing on improving the current crop of livestock qualitatively, provision of adequate veterinary services, and effective human development.

This policy document aims to chart the course for the development of made in Rwanda products. It notes the problems the country and its citizens face in terms of its size and geographical location. It seeks to ultimately improve the relatively small industrial sector by effectively developing its value chain to subsequently improve domestic market further and contribute to Rwanda’s long-term visions.

The Agricultural sector has played a leading role in keeping unemployment levels low, providing means of livelihood for the people, as well as generally contributing to the economy. This national policy on agriculture focuses on improvement of food security, and sustainable agriculture and nutrition, in line with national and international goals.

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 third HSSP is a continuation of HSSP I and HSSP II. It hopes to consolidate on the achievements of both plans in line with government’s resolve to tackle the health challenges of the population. It addresses critical areas like maternal health and non-communicable diseases. It holistically covers every aspect of the health sector from prevention, treatment, and control of diseases, to general strengthening of the health sector

This document highlights the resolve of the government to strengthen the country’s higher education system to meet international standards. The policy aims to build on existing structures to ensure dividends from a sound higher educational system are maximized.

This strategic plan pursues facilitating the implementation of the fourth Health sector strategic plan, HSSP IV. It focuses on pooling resources, sourcing for finance, and purchasing of health services. It basically strives to ensure the goals and targets of the HSSP IV in conjunction with other crucial policies are attained by the set date.

This procedural manual represents the effort of the government of Rwanda to holistically regulate the activities of the health sector. It works towards coordinating both the financial and technical aspect of the delivery of health sector activities. It covers all policies and strategies that align with the set goals of the health sector including vision 2020, the EDPRS, the HSSP, among others.

This policy highlights government’s resolve to coordinate all efforts and activities in the health sector. It enshrines government goals and targets for the sector as contained in the vision 2020, the EDPRS and the HSSP. It recognizes the need to change priority areas in line with change in epidemiologic and socio-economic conditions of Rwandans. “It sets the health sector’s objectives, identifies the priority health interventions for meeting these objectives, outlines the role of each level in the health system, and provides guidelines for improved planning and evaluation of activities in the health sector.” It is the first point of call for all stakeholders in the health sector.

The guidelines contained in this document serve as a guide for the safe and efficient disposal and decommission of obsolete and unserviceable health equipment. It underlines the need for new health equipment as changes evolve. It also emphasizes the need to ensure disposal and decommissioning is done safely (both to humans and the environment), economically, and efficiently, in line with best practices.