Promotion of Economy and Employment in Rwanda

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for economic cooperation and development (BMZ), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is implementing the project ‘Promotion of Economy and Employment in Rwanda’ with an integrated multi-level approach. The project aims at employment-intensive growth in selected value chains and capacity development of its key partners, for example Rwanda Development Board (RDB), the Ministry of Education as well as meso-level institutions such as Rwanda Polytechnic (RP), the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) and the Private Sector Federation (PSF). It focuses on increasing the market orientation and competitiveness of MSMEs and improving the interaction of different value creation stages in the value chains wood industry, tourism and hospitality and film industry. In addition, the project contributes to the improvement of the supply of qualified personnel for MSMEs and cooperatives by improving the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system and offering short-term further training courses. The project is also supporting labour market interventions of the Rwandan Government by strengthening public employment service centers and the national labour market information system. digitalisation and the focus on vulnerable groups such as women and persons with disabilities are crosscutting efforts of all project activities.