Teenagers in Rwanda
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Rwanda Pioneer in implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement
Dealing with the aftermath of the genocide remains one of the major challenges for the country. Other challenges include the severe economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the poverty in rural areas, high population density and land scarcity, the impact of climate change and a huge demand for jobs compounded by a shortage of well-trained people. The current United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) ranks the east African country 165th out of 191 countries.
German development cooperation with Rwanda
Under this G20 initiative, Germany has joined with other donors to support Rwanda in improving the environment for private investors. Under this framework, a German Business Desk has, for instance, been set up in Rwanda’s capital Kigali to promote investments in areas relevant to development.
Germany’s bilateral development cooperation with Rwanda focuses on the following core areas:
- Sustainable economic development, training and employment
- Climate and energy, just transition
- Peaceful and inclusive societies
In addition, Germany is supporting the work of civil society organisations in the area of human rights in order to strengthen the rights of especially disadvantaged groups vis-à-vis public institutions (for example young people’s, women’s and health rights).
Rwanda is also benefiting from various regional and supra-regional programmes under German development cooperation.
At the government negotiations in October 2022, Germany committed 93.6 million euros in new funding to Rwanda for the period from 2022 to 2024 with 63 million euros being earmarked for Financial Cooperation and 30.6 million euros for Technical Cooperation.
This includes 2.1 million euros made available under the Special Initiative “Displaced Persons and Host Countries”. Some 127,000 people are currently registered in Rwanda who have fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Burundi.
SDG trends for Rwanda
- On track or maintaining SDG achievement
- Moderately improving
- Stagnating
- Decreasing
- Trend information unavailable