Library Talk - Tuesday 24 September 2019 at 15.30 - Amb. Dr. Charles MURIGANDE

[ICTP/infopoint]

Dear All,

Ambassador Dr. Charles MURIGANDE, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Institutional
Advancement, University of Rwanda, will be visiting TWAS this week and
will give a talk on "Rwanda's Vision 2050" (abstract below).

The event will take place in the ICTP Marie Curie Library, Leonardo 
Building, on Tuesday 24 September 2019 at
15.30 hrs and all are most welcome to attend.





*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.