[{"bbox": [83, 105, 1170, 187], "category": "Text", "text": "Rwanda's 'Strategic Plan for Agricultural transformation 2018-24 – PSTA IV' includes ambitious 'local services improvement plans', which have yet to materialised, allowing districts to implement agricultural and environmental development activities."}, {"bbox": [83, 212, 1170, 342], "category": "Text", "text": "The recently approved 'National Land Use and Development Master Plan' represents an important tool to achieve adaptation targets, in order to clearly set the place of every sector (forestry/agriculture/urban) an avoid divergence/conflict between sectorial plans. One important element, is yet to ensure the alignment of sectorial plan with this national land use plan, and revise them where required. This national plan has to be translated into more detail District Land Use Plans."}, {"bbox": [83, 370, 1170, 504], "category": "Text", "text": "**Digital agricultural solutions** have received strong policy underpinnings via the 2016-2020 National ICT4RAg Strategy (Information and Communication Technologies for Rural Agriculture), which overall objective is the digitisation of agricultural lending, input supplies, subsidies and advisory services. Private sector is also developing or importing digital agricultural solutions for Rwanda, with platforms like m-farm, the Smart Nkunganire System and N- Frinds, supporting management of value chains and exchange of information on agricultural inputs, prices and subsidies."}, {"bbox": [83, 529, 1170, 660], "category": "Text", "text": "A robust plan, elaborated with the EU support, to enhance **extension and advisory services** via the Customised Agriculture Extension System (CAES) is expected to be rolled out within the context ofTwigire Muhinzi, Rwanda's national extension programme. This transition will require online agricultural extension curricula and modules to train service providers, new platforms to introduce and manage digital extension tools, and innovative approaches to training farmers."}, {"bbox": [83, 688, 1170, 796], "category": "Text", "text": "The **agriculture sector budget** for the financial year (FY) 2021/22 is showing an increase of +12.8% after a dramatic drop of -32% for 2020/2021 (Covid-19 context), so a corresponding to a similar budget than for the FY 2019/20. The share of the agriculture spending would slightly increase but remaining far from the 10% Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) target."}, {"bbox": [83, 821, 1170, 982], "category": "Text", "text": "The sector budget for agriculture is well financed by donors. For 2018/2019 and 2019/2020, World Bank (P4R programme) and EU budget support alone represent between 148% and 100% of the domestic budget for MINAGRI and its agencies, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is also supporting the Nutrition programme through budget support modality. This will continue in 2020/2021. According to the FY 2020/2021, one major budget support operation for agriculture with the World Bank has been postponed and amounts were reduced under the request of MINECOFIN to give priority to other investments in the COVID-19 response plan."}, {"bbox": [83, 1007, 1170, 1141], "category": "Text", "text": "Decentralisation of expenditures on earmarked allocations to Districts has been relatively stable in the last 5 years at around RWF 20 billion. The budget has been increased in 2019/2020 to reach RWF 40.7 billion. It seems unlikely that, under the on-going context, a similar budget will be allocated in the near future. Decentralisation remains a priority for the sector but is yet to be fully translated in practice. Districts are facing important capacity constraints and accountability issues when interagency transfers or earmarked transfers are done."}, {"bbox": [83, 1166, 1170, 1246], "category": "Text", "text": "Data consistency remains an issue. Data submitted during Joint Sector reviews, in Budget Support disbursement requests, in OAG reports, in budgets laws and in budget execution reports can be inconsistent. The action will support development of disaggregated data in the intervention areas."}, {"bbox": [83, 1272, 1170, 1458], "category": "Text", "text": "At the national level, the Agriculture Sector Working Group (ASWG) is co-chaired by the World Bank and complemented by Sub-Sector working groups and a sector wide approach (SWAP) group. Overall the coordination in the sector is a rather formal process with limited genuine dialogue. At local level, the existing fora are mostly used by the Government to set targets and instructions with farmer's representatives and NGOs according to the plans set at a higher level. In this context, the EU delegation continued to finance support programmes for advocacy by farmer's organisations and local stakeholders. These projects, nearly ending, also engage with local authorities to seek solutions to improve the delivery of decentralised agriculture services."}, {"bbox": [83, 1484, 1170, 1644], "category": "Text", "text": "The Ministry of Environment has developed the Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Sector Strategic Plan (SSP), 2019-2023, which is fully aligned with the national priorities and the National Strategy for Transformation (NST-1) and the National Environment and Climate Change Policy, 2019. The policy envisages to lessen the potential hardships that climate change may pose to the sustainable development of Rwanda. The policy, therefore, seeks to provide strategic direction on environment and climate change in Rwanda, consistent with a green growth approach to development."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 30"}]