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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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Strategic Policy and Economic Management Unit
The SPEMU is responsible for issues of capacity building and technical cooperation in economic and financial management.
More specifically the Unit's responsibilities include:
- Assist the Government in the formulation of a national poverty alleviation strategy and the design of specific projects and programmes for poverty reduction and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015;
- Follow up on the Government's poverty reduction strategy, macroeconomic framework and medium term expenditure framework which are crucial for economic management, resource mobilisation and capacity building;
- Assist in addressing capacity building needs of the Government's economic management institutions;
- Responsible for the preparation of the National Human Development Reports; Prepare country economic reports and briefs as required by the UNDP country office and Headquarters from time to time;
- Contribute to the preparation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and Common Country Assessment (CCA) for Rwanda;
- Assist in building Government's capacity in Debt Management and Analysis;
- Participate in other activities carried out by UNDP, through better understanding of capacity building and technical cooperation issues and the definition of policies and priorities in this area, such as training and management information systems.
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Ongoing Projects (by MYFF Service Lines)
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Rwanda
