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UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. UNDP's current priority is to help all countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, including the overarching goal of cutting extreme poverty in half. UNDP, using its worldwide network, is coordinating global and national efforts to reach these Goals.

In Rwanda, UNDP works closely with the Government of Rwanda, as well as development partners, in order to build institutional capacity and effect sustainable development.

UNDP in Rwanda acts as the seat of the Resident Coordinator and performs an important coordinating role with all other UN agencies, including the World Bank and the IMF. UNDP is responsible for collecting and compiling information which contributes to the annual Human Development Report, in which Rwanda most recently was ranked 161 out of 177 countries.

UNDP Programmes in Rwanda support the work of the Government of Rwanda in finding and implementing solutions in the following focus areas:

  • Fostering Democratic Governance
  • Achieving the MDGs and Poverty Reduction
  • Crisis Prevention and Recovery
  • Energy and the Environment for Sustainable Development
  • Responding to HIV/AIDS

Throughout these five areas, UNDP advocates for gender equality and the empowerment of women. In all programme areas, a clear and determined focus exists to work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Read more on UNDP's work in Rwanda..

MDGs Progress and Challenges in Rwanda, 2008:
Rwanda has made impressive efforts at achieving several MDGs, overcoming major setbacks during the genocide in 1994. This progress has been due to political commitment at the highest level, and international support for well designed and executed national scale programs.
Today, primary enrolment rates are 97 percent , largely due to the government's decision to make primary education free and mandatory, backed by donor support and sensitization to encourage sending children to school.
The gender equality in primary and secondary education target has already been met, together with other milestones; women's participation in parliament is now more than 50 percent (56% in 2008 ), the highest in the world. Similar high-level political leadership has led to HIV prevalence rates falling from 13 percent (2000) to 3 percent (2006).

Read more about MDGs Progress and Challenges in Rwanda, 2008.

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Rwanda

In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, all 189 world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration and agreed on a set of common goals for developing countries, known as the Millennium Development Goals. These goals are at the forefront of the global development agenda, and provide a framework for the way forward, with the overarching aim of cutting extreme poverty in half by the year 2015. With the successful achievement of these goals, billions more people can benefit from the global economy, and millions of lives can be saved. UNDP Rwanda holds the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals as the organisation's highest priority.

Read more about UNDP's effort to achieve the MDGs here

Read the United Nations Core Strategy on the MDGs here

Read the MDG Monitor was launched on 1 November in New York here













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From May 23 rd to 30 th 2009, a delegation of 14 people comprising officials from the Government of Rwanda, the private sector and UNDP, visited Songhaï Project, a sustainable African Agricultural Model, in Benin. Read More
Kigali, 13-24 October 2008: Rwanda commemorates the 63 rd anniversary of the United Nations. Read more
New UNDP annual report on Capacity Development released. Read more on the report.

Mr. Aurélien Agbénonci, UNDP Resident Representative and UN Resident Coordinator

Kigali, 22 July 08: New report unveils strategies for engaging the poor.
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