Rwanda

The project aims at improving the effectiveness and the efficiency of the public service through modernization of its structures and systems and through capacity development at the levels: individual, organizational and institutional levels.

The project focuses on the following:

•  Restructuring and modernization of public service
•  Performance evaluation system at individual and institutional level.
•  Re-conversion programmes and credit scheme for retrenched civil servants .
•  Capacity development for the public sector, the private sector and the CSO.
•  Review of the Public Service legal framework
•  Monitoring and evaluation of the public service reform programme.

Strengthen the institutional capacity of RIAM to make it a professional training institution for public servants and other partners, such as the private sector and the civil society;
Improve the skills and competencies of civil servants;
Modernize public service through new management systems and a new organizational culture;
Enhance effectiveness/efficiency, accountability, transparency and responsiveness to Rwandans and foreign partners' needs and aspirations

The restructuring of Government institutions (rightsizing, redeployment and accompanying measures for retrenched staff) is carried out ;
The human resource development and capacity building policy is elaborated and approved;
Jobs description/classification and new grading system designed;
A new salary policy and scale is designed;
Performance evaluation tools and systems developed and approved;
ICT development (computerized pay system, registration etc) policy designed