From 20th October to 21st November, 2016, Officials from National Employment Program implementing Institutions are touring the country, urging youth and women to embrace TVET and entrepreneurship.
NEP campaign, among other objectives, seeks to sensitize the youth, women and people with disabilities to join Technical, Vocational and Education Training (TVET) for self employment and job creation and to seize existing opportunities relating to entrepreneurship and business development.
 “Many people are not aware of the benefits in National Employment Program, that is why we are taking this campaign across the country, we have capital let people submit projects we can finance,” said Judith Uwizeye; Minister of Public Service and Labour during the campaign in City of Kigali.
According to Uwizeye, depending on the nature of the project proposals, the Government, through established credit and savings cooperatives (SACCOs), gives the selected beneficiaries necessary start-up toolkits to initiate their own projects.
Through that framework, BDF works with financial institutions to give as many credits as possible but mostly for less likely beneficiaries, including youth, women, people living with disabilities, financially struggling groups of women like street vendors, fresh graduates, Iwawa (vocational training and rehabilitation centre) graduates as it fine tunes modalities through which people can secure guarantees as fast as possible.
NEP - Kora Wigire was launched in 2014 and runs at a cost of Rwf9.8 billion partly funded the Swedish government and is supposed to last five years.
Since its inception, at least 80,672 jobs have been created.
The EDPRS 2 recognises the important role of employment for economic development and poverty reduction and, accordingly, calls for “200,000 [off-farm] jobs to be created each year” to meet the employment needs of the labour force, induced by demographic trends and the growing youth share of the working age population.

Should the benefits of the programme be sustained, government hopes to reduce the unemployment rate, which stands at 2 per cent going, according to EICV 4.