The Governance and Decentralization Sector Strategic Plan (G&D SSP) 2018/19-2023/24 is developed as a contribution to the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1), which has as its primary focus the transformation of the lives of the citizens in the 7 year government mandate. The G&D SSP takes into consideration the Country’s commitments towards national, regional and global strategic orientations such as the Rwanda’s Vision 2050, AU Vision 2063 and EAC Vision 2050 and SDGs (agenda 2030). The overall objective of the Governance and Decentralization Sector is to enable the socioeconomic transformation envisaged in NST1 and Vision 2050 through high level performance resulting from sound collaboration and coordination of interventions. The specific objectives of the Governance & Decentralization Sector are outlined below: 1. To empower citizens in an inclusive way so that their participation and engagement in development, self-reliance, unity and reconciliation keep improving continuously; 2. To put up mechanisms which continue to enforce transparency and accountability at institutional and individual level; 3. To ensure that service delivery to the citizens meet the highest quality standards; 4. To build the capacity of local governments so that they become financially self-reliant, promote their local potentialities for economic development with special focus on jobs creation; 5. to ensure that all services offered at local level are effectively decentralized and that all stakeholders (Government, CSOs, Private Sector, Development Partners, Citizens) work in harmony and converge all their contributions towards the transformation agenda; 6. to develop the capacity of public institutions as well as non-state actors so that they respond effectively to transformation agenda; 7. to promote innovations through streamlining best practices and homegrown solutions as well as Rwandan core values to ensure sustainability in consideration of the country’s unique development context. Taking into account the policy context including the international and regional commitments relevant to the governance and decentralization sector, the following 8 sector priorities were drawn out to drive the SSP 2018/19-2023/24: 1. Participation, Empowerment and Inclusiveness; 2. Accountability and Transparency; 3. Service Delivery; 4. Fiscal and Financial Decentralization; 5. Local Economic Development; 6. Sectoral Decentralization; 7. Capacity Development for transformational governance; and 8. Values and Home Grown Solutions for transformational governance. Local economic development will be addressed by promoting conditions for local economies to be attractive to investments. Some of the proposed interventions are: to provide incentives and establish an enabling environment for the private sector; to establish a data bank of PPP projects and develop PPP guidelines; capacity building around designing projects based on feasibility studies. In addition, for increased productive jobs for youth and women, the proposed strategic interventions are to: conduct and update the mapping of local potentialities in districts; enhance knowledge and skills transfer for youth, turn their local economic and cultural endowments into income and job creating ventures; strengthen financial institutions decentralization and promotion of financial services; and develop long-term partnerships to attract capital, technology and other economic opportunities from private investors. Disaster Management as well as Environment and Climate Change are among cross-cutting areas(CCAs) which are not directly addressed by G&D SSP. However, through citizen participation, empowerment and inclusiveness, these two CCAs are addressed by considering them in planning and prioritization at sector level. Finally, for Governance, the sector of priority 7 (capacity development for transformational governance) proposes two policy actions: produce Capacity Development strategy for LG and G&D Sector in line with the transformational agenda; and improve coordination framework for planning, budgeting and reporting of LG CD with line ministries.
卢旺达 · 2018-01-01