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Republic of Rwanda

Rwanda is situated in Central and Eastern Africa and is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region.

Rwanda spearheads a progressive agenda on economic and trade integration, climate ambition and multilateralism. It is among the countries that is making the most progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly on health, education, gender equality and environment.

Our partnership

The EU supports Rwanda’s ambition to transform its economy, advance the green transition, foster an equitable society and become an upper-middle income country by 2035 in line with Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation and Vision 2050 and the EU’s Global Gateway Strategy.

Team Europe in Rwanda brings together the EU, the European Investment Bank, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Greece, Sweden, Austria, and Denmark.

The EU allocated €260 million in grant funding to the partnership with Rwanda over 2021-2024. Rwanda also benefits from several multi-country EU programmes.

Multiannual Indicative Programme 2021-2027 for Rwanda

Annual action plan 2024

Multiannual action plan 2021-2023

Annual action plan 2022

 

Our flagship initiatives

Education and skills

To support the Government’s economic development strategy,  aimed at diversifying the economy towards high productivity knowledge-based sectors, through investment in education, technical and vocational skills, and improving access to, and quality of early childhood development by constructing pre-primary classrooms across the country.

Production of pharmaceutical products

To support Rwanda’s ambition to become a regional hub to produce pharmaceutical products. Team Europe support focuses on:

  • Enabling environment: the EU provided laboratory equipment for the Rwandan Food and Drug Authority and established twinning – the exchange of expertise - on vaccine and human medicines production regulatory oversight between Rwanda and EU Member states.
  • Workforce qualification: the EU and Rwanda launched a Master of Science and PhD programme in biotechnology in partnership with European universities; Team Europe will support Technical Vocational Education and Training programmes to ensure the skills needed in the pharmaceutical sector are available.
  • Private sector investment:  the EU and Rwanda organised the first EU-Rwanda Business Forum which brought together European and Rwandan pharmaceutical companies with the government.
Agriculture

Transforming the country’s agricultural sector towards sustainable and inclusive agriculture systems, support to food value chains, construction of the Kigali Wholesale Market which will be the first market of this kind in Eastern Africa and key in making Rwanda a distribution hub for fresh produces in the region.

Cities

Support the sustainable and inclusive urbanisation through upgrading of informal settlements in Kigali, investing in urban mobility, sustainable and inclusive urban development of satellite cities.

Critical Raw Materials

to support Rwanda in formalising and professionalising its artisanal mining sector, to improve with compliance with international standards and due diligence and promote regional value chains.

Governance

to put more emphasis on public accountability and citizen participation in decision-making processes. EU support focuses on:

  • Support voices and accountability, democratic participation and civil society, Rule of Law, Human Rights and ending violence against women and girls.
  • Strengthen economic governance to promote investment and a conducive business environment.

 

24 OCTOBER 2023
EU-Rwanda country projects
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