Annual analysis of Rwanda’s agriculture budget expenditure 2015-2016

ActionAid International Rwand

Raising productivity and reducing the risks of household enterprise in Rwanda

This report is a joint project of the World Bank, Africa region, and the Rwanda Institute of Policy Analysis and Research. On the Rwanda side, the IPAR research team was lead by Pamela Abbott, and included John Rwirahira, Serge Musana, Paul Kaira, Marklin Rucogoza, Faith Malka, Lillian Mutesi, and Ivan Murenzi. The World Bank team was lead by Louise Fox, and included Melissa Gaal, Birgit Hansl, Jorge Huerta, Dickson Malunda Thomas Pave, Sohnesen, and Michaela Weber. Alex Kamurase contributed Table 10, as well as much valuable advice. The Director of IPAR, Antonia Mutoro, and the Country Manager of the Rwanda office of the World Bank, Omowunmi Ladipo provided guidance and support throughout the project.World Ban

TTI phase 2 institutional support : Kigali - Rwanda

The Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR- Rwanda) developed and successfully implemented a five-year strategic plan (2012 -2016) and is currently involved in a second five-year strategic plan (2016-2021). The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) Phase 2 Institutional Support works to strengthen IPAR-Rwanda’s role as a credible public policy analysis and research institution by building capacity to undertake high-quality, influential and policy-relevant research. The report provides a review of ongoing activities, outputs, challenges and accomplishments

From urban catastrophe to 'model' city?: politics, security and development in post-conflict Kigali

In the years immediately after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Kigali was a site of continuing crisis amid extraordinary levels of urban population growth, as refugees returned to Rwanda in their millions. Yet unlike many post-conflict cities that spiral into endemic crime and instability, it was rapidly securitised in the context of political consolidation and large amounts of foreign aid, and hailed by the UN as a ‘model, modern city’. This paper analyses the government’s approach to securitising Kigali, interrogating how its rapid trajectory from epicentre of conflict to carefully planned showcase for development has been achieved. It is argued that Kigali bears the weight of many of Rwanda’s development aspirations and keeping it secure and orderly is viewed as critical by the government. After examining the national and local processes through which the government has aimed to achieve ‘secure urbanisation’, the potential longer-term implications of its urban development strategy are considered