EMPOWERING RWANDANS TO A RESILIENT FUTURE

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UNDP launches challenge to boost innovative finance for small-scale clean energy in developing countries

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UNDP is leveraging technology to support the visually impaired

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Green Amayaga Project Launch: Forest Landscape Restoration in Rwanda’s Amayaga Region

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The Government of Rwanda and UNDP Rwanda launch a retrofit electric Motorcycles project

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Transforming social and gender norms

A speech by Maxwell Gomera, UNDP Resident Representative in Rwanda, on the occasion of Gender Equality Seal Recognition event, on 20 March 2021

*Recognized companies include Bank of Kigali, Development Bank of Rwanda, Mata Tea Company, MTN Rwanda, Nyabihu Potato Company, Rwanda Energy Group, Rwanda Interlink Transport Company (RITCO) and Wolfram Mining and Processing Company.

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UNDP and the Government of Japan partnered to support capacity strengthening of regional security actors.

Kigali – 24 Rwandan military, police and civilian personnel have attended a one-week long course on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) organised by Rwanda Peace Academy (RPA) in partnership the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Rwanda and the Government of Japan.

The objective of the course is to equip participants with required knowledge and skills to minimize Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Peace Keeping missions.

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How UNDP is addressing impact of COVID-19 pandemic on lives of vulnerable women

When Pelagie Yaramfashije, a wife to an ex-combatant and resident of Gashora, Bugesera District, had just returned to Rwanda, one of her biggest challenges was the lack of a permanent place to stay.

The objective of the course is to equip participants with required knowledge and skills to minimize Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Peace Keeping missions.

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Ex-FDLR combatants benefit from Covid-19 recovery package

Balthazar Ndagijimana, a former combatant and resident of Gisagara District, Southern Province, lost his sight while fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he was a member of the FDLR militia.

The objective of the course is to equip participants with required knowledge and skills to minimize Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Peace Keeping missions.

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UNDP works to mainstream gender equality through empowerment of young women

Gender, as an aspect that is increasingly being mainstreamed, has surely taken centre stage with the United Nations Development Programme of empowering and supporting ex-combatants with emphasis on teen mothers and young women.

The objective of the course is to equip participants with required knowledge and skills to minimize Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Peace Keeping missions.

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In Rwanda, UNDP has been working as a key development partner of choice since 1977, to achieve sustainable human development in economic, social and environmental fronts. Working closely with the Government, civil society, the private sector and communities, UNDP aims to eradicate extreme poverty, and reduce inequalities and exclusion to protect both people and the planet.

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UNDP Rwanda Annual Report 2021 | Financing Innovation and Innovating Finance

Rwanda’s journey from division to unity, poverty to prosperity, pandemic to recovery is one of innovation and resilience-and 2021 was a year that required both. UNDP Rwanda is proud to be part of this journey, helping to build a Rwanda that leads in sustainable, equitable development and leaves no one behind. In 2021, COVID-19 challenged the economic, health and social gains of the past two decades. Yet, Rwanda rose to meet the moment. Its swift response to curb the pandemic was followed with an ambitious government-launched Economic Recovery Plan. UNDP Rwanda has strived to do our part. In 2021, we identified key opportunities to finance innovation and to generate innovative finance wherever it would make the biggest difference.

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67.8

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Life expectancy at birth

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