Rwanda

Poverty Reduction

Background | Strategic Policy and Economic Management Unit | Current Projects

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.