📋 Tender Overview
Project details
Project number:
2020.2092.3
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
1400 Central Africa
Contact person:
Ksenija Maver ksenija.maver@giz.de
Partner countries:
Rwanda
Summary
Goals:
The capacities of key government and academic actors in Rwanda to design economic, tax and investment policies geared towards inclusive growth have improved.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
Financier:
not available
Order volume
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
17 150 000 euros
Current project:
4 500 000 euros
Combined financing
not available
Previous project
2017.2007.7
Economic and investment policy
Successor project
not available
Duration
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
22.06.2010 - 31.01.2025
Current project:
01.08.2021 - 31.01.2025
Other parties involved
GFA Consulting Group GmbH
More information
Project website
not available
Development policy identifiers
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
CRS key
15110 Public sector policy and administration
Evaluation
not available
Project description (DE)
Initial situation
Two out of five people in Rwanda live on less than 70 US cents a day. The country is therefore trying to reduce poverty in the country and significantly increase incomes. By 2035, incomes are to reach an upper middle level by international comparison.
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) has been tasked with developing and implementing macroeconomic, tax and investment policy measures for this purpose. The ministry has already taken important steps, but it needs additional analytical expertise and qualified staff.
Objective
Government and scientific actors are in a position to align tax and investment policy with broad-based growth.
Approach
The project works in five fields of action:
1. Plan public investments
2. Model macroeconomic relationships
3. Promote sound tax policy
4. Strengthen higher education, research and policy dialogue
5. Implement the new Rwanda Sustainable Finance Roadmap.
Specifically, the project advises on policy scenarios and research papers based on macroeconomic models. MINECOFIN employees can access the models and produce well-founded analyses for political decision-makers.
The project also supports the trainee program of MINECOFIN, the National Bank of Rwanda and the National Institute of Statistics for young economists in order to anchor strategic skills development.
The project supports the Master's program in Applied Qualitative Economics at the University of Rwanda through an academic partnership wi
