Rwanda Vision 2020.

Vision 2020 is a framework for Rwanda’s development, presenting the key priorities and providing Rwandans with a guiding tool for the future.
The Vision seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into a middle-income country by the year 2020.
The aspirations of Vision 2020 will be realised around six “Pillars” and will be interwoven with three cross-cutting issues with are: (i) Good governance and a capable state, (ii) human resource development and a knowledge based economy, (iii) a private sector-led economy, (iv) infrastructure development, (v) productive and market oriented agriculture, (vi) regional and international economic integration.
In order to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable, the government plans to overhaul agricultural policy orientation as well as promoting his intensification in order to increase productivity. The key policy areas that need urgent attention to bring about this transformation include the following: (i) institutional and legal reforms to ensure security of land ownership, (ii) use of high yielding varieties and intensive input use, especially fertilizers, (iii) environmental control measures to halt the decline in soil fertility.
Regarding the reduction of rural poverty, in order to achieve gender equality and equity, Rwanda will continuously update and adapt its laws on gender. It will support education for all, eradicate all forms of discrimination, fight against poverty and practice a positive discrimination policy in favour of women. Gender will be integrated as a cross-cutting issue in all development policies and strategies.
To enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the vision of accessing larger regional markets will be accompanied through a program of investing in infrastructure to promote Rwanda as a communication and telecommunication hub. Furthermore, taking advantage of Rwanda’s comparative strategic position should be exploited in terms of entrepot functions in trade and commerce. Export processing zones, coupled with the industrial reforms will enable the country to consolidate its niche in services and communication sectors and take advantage of growing regional co-operation in the Great Lakes/ Eastern African Region.
To increase the resilience of livelihood to disasters, in order to ensure sustainable development, Rwanda will implement adequate land and water management techniques, coupled with a sound biodiversity policy.
In the context of governance, to ensure smooth implementation of the Vision 2020 and achievement of the aspirations described above, it will have to be reflected in the whole planning process and, particularly, medium and short-term instruments. Therefore, the long-term aspirations of the Vision will translate into medium-term programmes of the National Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) as well as the National Investment Strategy (NIS). The PRS is operationalised through medium-term sector strategies that will inform provincial and district development plans. The sector strategies and the decentralised development plans will be implemented through the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), three-year fully integrated budgets that mainstream the Public Investment Programmes (PIP) of these agencies and translate into concrete action plans costed through annual budgets. The poverty reduction achieved through the MTEF will be monitored and will feed back into the elaboration of sector and provincial plans.