Following detailed studies carried out since 1997, the public sector
in Rwanda is now being reformed in order to be up to modern standards for
an effective and transparent service for both citizens, businesses and other
institutions alike.
Introduction
The Government of Rwanda has embarked on a new phase of national reconstruction
after facing important socio-political challenges in previous phases,
ten years after the 1994 genocide. This phase, known as « Rwanda Public
sector transformation and reconfiguration », falls under the country’s
ongoing socio-economic and political administrative reforms on one hand,
and under the dynamics of good governance on the other hand, in the context
of the millennium development goals aiming at a sustainable economic growth
in the country, significant poverty reduction, and at a durable human
development of Rwanda in its all components. It comes to reinforce the
measures taken and actions to undertake with the aim of boosting the country’s
economic development in the perspective of “ 2020 vision ”.The commitment of Rwanda Government relies on its conviction that without
an effective and well organised public sector, promising priority services
and playing a catalytic role in promoting the activities of private sector,
of civil society and of other development partners, no development can
be achieved countrywide. Without a functional Public Administration, the
door is widely open to serious outbreaks, corruption, all sorts of overlapping
and overspendings which are against the well-being of Rwandans servants
at all levels and in all the departments to insure transparent management
and responsible of public services with emphasis on accountability.
The government of Rwanda recognises that good governance requires the
presence of the civil servants at all levels and in all the departments
to insure transparent management and responsible of public services with
emphasis on accountability.
Therefore, the public service has the obligation to establish a combination
of general principles and values which should motivate and constantly
arouse work commitment for the well being of Rwandan; and to all socio-economic
participants in Rwanda.
These principles and values to be promoted have an incentive characteristic
and aim at accompanying each person participating in public service at
all levels including those who will join the process in the due course
to dissociate from retrogressive mentalities of egocentrism (selfishness),
nepotism, leakage of information and all other forms of corruption.
Read the full text of the reform program.
See Task Force for Public Sector Reform
