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Poverty Reduction |
BACKGROUND
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Over 60% of individuals live in poverty and 42% in absolute poverty. Using the household as a unit, 57% live below the poverty line.
Rwanda has a high female population (53%), of whom large proportions are widows and/or single women. Nearly one-third, or 32.1%, of Rwandan households are headed by women.
In terms of poverty gender disparities, 62% of female-headed households lie below the poverty line compared to 54% of male-headed households. The incidence of poverty is much higher in rural areas (66%) than in urban areas (12% in Kigali and 19% in other towns). Inequality runs deep, with the richest 10% of the population holding approximately 50% of the national wealth compared with 50% of the population sharing just 10% of the wealth.
UNDP supports the poverty reduction effort in Rwanda by strengthening the national policy formulation process, strengthening the country’s absorption capacity of Official Development Assistance, and by improving effectiveness and coordination of aid. The Strategic Policy Unit focuses on the first of these tasks by providing capacity support in the area of policy formulation and planning and by providing upstream policy advice to government. As such, it plays an important role in fostering alignment behind government policies as well as in harmonization, by facilitating the policy dialogue between donors, government, and civil society.
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Public Management Unit |
UNDP Public Management Programme is built around a shared agenda with the Government of Rwanda as outlined in the
Economic Development Poverty Reduction Strategy
(EDPRS). The agenda of the Government is to build a strengthened public sector with an accountable and transparent management of its resources at national and decentralized levels and sound strategic planning as vital elements for national economic growth and development.
Public Management unit areas of intervention include the following:
Public Sector Reform: Strengthening the effectiveness of public administration towards efficient, accountable and results-oriented service delivery.
Capacity Building : Organizing a nation-wide skills audit, labour market survey and the mapping of capacity building interventions. The assessment and mapping results will feed into the formulation of a “National Integrated Skills Development Policy” and a national capacity development strategy. UNDP will support as needed mainstreaming gender in all Government capacity building efforts.
Decentralization: Supporting the drafting & implementation of the Rwanda Decentralization Strategic Framework.
Local Development and Inclusive Finance: Through the partnership with UNCDF, the Italian Government and other partners, building infrastructure and service delivery (ISD) capacities of Districts, Sectors and Cells and improving local economic development as well as food security trough pro-poor projects. Through the partnership with UNCDF, supporting the implementation and monitoring of the National Microfinance Policy.
Economic Governance: Supporting the implementation of the Paris Declaration principles notably through its support to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), as well as through continued enhancement of aid coordination mechanisms.
Statistics: Producing quality reports that provide reliable analysis of the national development situation through maintained support and production of National Human Development Reports (NHDR) as well as MDG Reports (MDGR) to raise awareness on development priorities, including a gender mainstreamed perspective.
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Ongoing Projects (by MYFF Service Lines)
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Rwanda
