• 7 CSOs part of the consortium
• Under-privileged/excluded population (includes but not limited to PWDs, youth, women, rural population, teenage girls, etc.)
• Other CSOs and social/interests groups (small traders & farmers’ associations, youth groups, consumer groups, trade unions…)
• In the long term many citizens in Rwanda to benefit from improved policies

Outcome 1: Rwanda’s Civil Society ability and capacity to undertake effective policy advocacy on socioeconomic transformation is enhanced and contributes to actual policy change

Outcome 2: Supported human rights actors (CSOs, NCHR) contribute to advancement of the promotion and respect of human rights in Rwanda (Focussing on business, socioeconomic)

Erwartete Resultate:  

Economic Transformation pillar:

• Workshops, policy briefs, and meetings on youth and women employment, entrepreneurship and businesses opportunities
• Workshops, reports, briefs, meetings, feedbacks on farmers’ voice in formulation, budgeting, implementation and evaluation of agriculture related policies, programs and services

Social Transformation pillar:

• Improved participatory and inclusive design and delivery of social protection polices, programs and services

Transformational Governance Pillar and human rights:

• Workshops/Training of local and national leaders in participatory approaches for citizen participation
• Service delivery monitoring report at the level of decentralized government entities (sub-district entities)
• Consultations of citizens and particularly women and youth at the level of decentralized government entities
• Policies analysis/briefs by media and CSOs
• Learning and knowledge sharing workshops

Human Rights:

• Human rights monitoring reports
• Regulatory instruments, esp. on business and human rights

Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

Key results:

• Cabinet approved proposals from supported CSOs to increase household social benefit categories from 4 to 5, improving allocative efficiency and reducing overall costs
• CSOs policy recommendations to Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Agriculture informed the design of a more targeted approach for input subsidies to drive agricultural productivity
• National industrialisation and trade policy review benefitted from private sector inputs following programme consultations
• Strategic Plan of the Rwanda Governance Board RGB, approved with technical support from the programme

Select lessons from the 1st and 2nd phases:

• Policy-influencing programmes are more likely to be effective and impactful when there is strong demand from within government and the right mix of support is provided quickly and efficiently
• Failure to demonstrate explicit alignment and contribution to Government priorities leads to unfounded distrust and suspicion and will result in stalling of interventions
• Working collaboratively with other sector development programmes adds value, particularly by complementing sector specialization with policy engagement capacities
• Effective learning on policy advocacy takes place mainly when classic capacity building approaches (classroom based) are combined with learning by doing approaches
• Overemphasis on civil and political rights can lead to suspicions from government, hamper programme implementation/progress
• UPR as a favourable tool/process for CSO and human rights bodies to collaboratively work on critical issues and bring change

PCPC and Media: Create systematic links on advocacy priorities

PROECCO, PROMOST, Economic Relaunch: Synergies on monitoring employment and job creation policies