Rwanda’s Vision 2050
Abstract
In 2000, the Government of Rwanda adopted a vision of its development known as Vision 2020 which aimed at transforming the country from an agrarian economy into a knowledge-based economy with the objective of becoming a middle-income country by 2020. The vision articulated around the following six (6) pillars: i) Good Governance and a Capable State; ii) Human Resource Development and a Knowledge-based economy; iii) Private Sector-led Development; iv) Infrastructure Development; v) Productive high value and market-oriented agriculture; iv) Regional and International Integration. It also had the following three (3) cross-cutting issues: 1) Gender Equality; 2) Natural Resources and the environment and 3) Science, Technology and ICT. The extraordinary recovery from the 1994 genocide that Rwanda has registered, moving from hopelessness to hopefulness, is certainly due to having a clear development vision, executed with great discipline by vision leadership and hard-working people.
Vision 2020 is soon reaching its horizon and the government has been preparing a new development blueprint known as Vision 2050 that will guide the country’s development efforts from 2020 to 2050. The talk will be about the content of this Rwanda’s new development blueprint, with special emphasis on the role that education in general and University of Rwanda in particular, is expected to play in achieving the vision’s goals.