[{"bbox": [83, 131, 1170, 212], "category": "Text", "text": "The policy is designed within the context of national, regional and global development commitments like the Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS), the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Agenda 2063 of the East African Community."}, {"bbox": [83, 212, 1170, 264], "category": "Text", "text": "The policy is implemented through ministerial and Districts Development Strategies (DDS) and specific Sector Strategic Plans (SSPs)."}, {"bbox": [83, 291, 1170, 373], "category": "Text", "text": "**Rwanda's 'Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy'**, currently under drafting, builds on Rwanda's NDC programmatic targets, with a particular focus on NDC actions to be taken at district level. This local NDCs actions should be part of the IMIHIGO performance contracts, in order to ensure its prioritisation."}, {"bbox": [83, 397, 1170, 504], "category": "Text", "text": "The **environmental sector budget for FY 2021/22** has been allocated RWF 44.57 Billion, showing an increase of +95 % comparing with FY 2019/2020 executed budget and after a drop for FY 2020/2021 (Covid-19 context). The share of the environmental sector in the national budget slightly increase but is remaining far from the needs to achieve the NDCs' targets or the objectives of the Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy."}, {"bbox": [83, 504, 1170, 584], "category": "Text", "text": "In FY 2020/21, the sector has mobilised USD 64 000 000 from external green investments, mainly from Germany (KFW) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This coming financial year 2021/22, the National Fund for Climate change (FONERWA) is targeting to mobilise USD 30 000 000 using financial mechanisms to support green investment."}, {"bbox": [83, 609, 1170, 688], "category": "Text", "text": "Data consistency remains an issue but important efforts have been done or are on-going (see chapter 5.1 Monitoring and Reporting). In the next months, on main challenge for the ministry will be the full establishment of the National Special Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and WebGIS for District Land Use Plans."}, {"bbox": [83, 715, 1170, 796], "category": "Text", "text": "The Ministry is challenged in its coordination capacities. The Ministry must coordinate for joint performances with various technical ministries but also coordinate 7 agencies from REMA to Rwanda Forest Authority (RFA) including mining, petroleum and gas, meteorology, water, lands or the Green Fund-FONERWA."}, {"bbox": [83, 821, 1170, 900], "category": "Text", "text": "FONERWA's mandate needs to be clarify between funds raising and projects implementation, for which the fund is not able to mobilise adequate capacity. Some lacks also exist on project identification and formulation which request external assistance."}, {"bbox": [83, 927, 1170, 1031], "category": "Text", "text": "Districts deliver on basic services level and succeed to achieve quantity performance targets (like terracing or number of trees planted) but there is a need to improve quality service delivery and sustainability (rate of survival trees, agroforestry tree or bush density per hectare,...), as planning capacities to target the more vulnerable areas with the scarce available resources."}, {"bbox": [83, 1059, 1170, 1193], "category": "Text", "text": "At the national level, the existing coordination mechanisms, based on the inter-ministerial steering committee for the GGCRS, the economic cluster forum and the Environmental Sector Working Group, co-chaired by the Germany embassy, aim to engage stakeholders in a policy strategic dialogue to advance implementation of the ENR SSP and ensure ownership, accountability and transparency of the NST1 implementation and monitoring process. The coordination in the sector remains a rather formal process."}, {"bbox": [83, 1219, 1170, 1379], "category": "Text", "text": "Rwandan Organic Budget Law requires all government units to prepare and report on the implementation of **gender budget statements**, and over the past years Rwanda has implemented gender budgeting in four pilot sectors (health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure), with a roll-out of this tool to all sectors performed in 2016. However, effective implementation of gender -responsive planning and budgeting tools is confronted with technical gaps and persistent cultural norms and stereotypes, leading to the planning and implementation of programmes that are less gender responsive."}, {"bbox": [83, 1404, 1170, 1512], "category": "Text", "text": "The new **National Gender Policy** (February 2021) acknowledges the challenges jeopardising gender mainstreaming in Rwanda and foresees a gender policy analyst at the Office of the Prime Minister, as well as gender focal persons in all ministries, implementing agencies and districts. It is proposed as well to reinforce gender accountability of the Imihigo performance contracts, by assigning a certain percentage share to gender responsive performance indicators."}, {"bbox": [83, 1537, 1170, 1591], "category": "Text", "text": "In conclusion, the policy is sufficiently relevant and credible for budget support contract objectives to be largely achieved. Therefore the policy can be supported by the Commission with the proposed budget support contract."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 30"}]