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Implementing the MDGs: Rwanda’s Success & Challenges Kampeta Sayinzoga

Implementing the MDGs: Rwanda’s Success & Challenges Kampeta Sayinzoga Permanent Secretary & Secretary to Treasury Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. What do MDGs mean to us?. MDGs are milestones towards our Vision 2020 & Medium Term Socio-economic plan (EDPRS)

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Implementing the MDGs: Rwanda’s Success & Challenges Kampeta Sayinzoga

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  1. Implementing the MDGs: Rwanda’s Success & Challenges Kampeta Sayinzoga Permanent Secretary & Secretary to Treasury Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning

  2. What do MDGs mean to us? • MDGs are milestones towards our Vision 2020 & Medium Term Socio-economic plan (EDPRS) • MDGs helped focus on strategic priorities and have been adapted to the local context • Monitoring and Evaluation of MDGs is also integrated to the national M&E system • The Annual National Dialogue Meeting discusses progress against MDGs • In 2000, the situation on MDGs was worse than in 1990 so it required strong focus and commitment.

  3. MDG1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger

  4. MDG1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger • Facing challenges: • Distribution of growth: How do we ensure growth translates into poverty reduction? • Support to agriculture productivity: crop Intensification, prevention of soil erosion & irrigation • Create linkages between services & rural development • Addressing vulnerability is key: • Ongoing programs: ubudehe, one cow per family • Flagship 3 in five year plan: Vision 2020 Umurenge program

  5. MDG2: Universal Primary Education • Enrolment has increased with introduction of fee-free 9 year basic education • …..But quality proven to be a big challenge.

  6. MDG2: Universal Primary Education • Facing arising challenges: • Managing access shock: • Need to build more schools and train more teachers (pupil to teacher ratio from 51 in 2000 to 66 in 2008) • Transition rate to and enrolment rate in secondary need to improve • Increase availability of textbooks and teaching aide • Managing financial sustainability of fee-free basic education • Education solidarity fund (for vulnerable children) at district level • Since 2003 capitation grants to schools were introduced • Education sector more dependent on external aid

  7. MDG3: Gender Disparity • In 2003, new Constitution giving at least 30% of seats to women • All laws discriminating against women have been abolished • Changing culture is not as easy as amending laws • Need to fight domestic violence

  8. MDG 4&5: Child& Maternal Mortality • Winning programs: • Micro health insurance (85% adherents) for financial sustainability • Community health services for non-clinical & preventive care • Performance based financing for results at health center based on greater autonomy of health facilities

  9. MDG 4&5: Child& Maternal Mortality • Facing arising challenges: • Maternal mortality ratio still too high • Control population growth (family planning, population policy) and reproductive health • Fee free antenatal consultations and deliveries + audit of maternal deaths to increase number of births attended by skilled health personnel • Quality of health care to match increased utilization of health facilities: from 40% in 2000 to 70% in 2007

  10. MDG6: HIV/AIDS, Malaria& otherDiseases • Access to ARVs increased from 35% in 2005 to 72% in 2008. Objective is to reach universal access. • Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under impregnated bednets reached 60% in 2007. • Ongoing National campaign “eradicating malaria in Rwanda”

  11. MDG7: Environment Sustainability • Ensuring environment sustainability : protection against soil erosion, banning the use of plastic bags, planting trees, water and waste management and increase alternative renewable sources of energy (such as solar, biogas). • Wood in energy consumption reduced from 94% in 2000 to 85% in 2008 but need for more efforts if Vision 2020 target of 50% is to be achieved. Land area covered by forest is of 21% in 2008 compared to a target of 30% in Vision 2020.

  12. Conclusion • MDGs in Rwanda are achievable: there is substantial progress in many areas • We need better coordination and scaling up of efforts for greater impact • Also need to deliver on economic progress to strengthen impact and ensure sustainability of results • Faster and improved delivery of public services: There is a sense of urgency to achieve set targets!! “ We do not let statistics make us forget that we are dealing with Rwandan people’s lives”

  13. THANK YOU

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