[{"bbox": [96, 151, 1162, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "providing education statistics and preparing the five-year education development plans, and thus plays a key role in determining priorities and allocating resources."}, {"bbox": [96, 233, 1162, 342], "category": "Text", "text": "Overall, and although the Education Management Information System (EMIS) and Learning Assessment systems drive and inform centralised education sector and planning, the lack of timely and accurate data use and analysis to drive district-level plans, activities, and investments is a risk to the future progress of the education system and risks exacerbating inequalities between districts and vulnerable populations, especially girls."}, {"bbox": [96, 369, 343, 397], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Inclusiveness and gender"}, {"bbox": [96, 424, 1162, 715], "category": "Text", "text": "Rwanda has an explicit policy on Girls' Education, and this has ensured that both girls and boys have equal access to quality education at all levels of education. According to the latest Education Statistics, more female than males are enrolled in pre-primary schooling and the Gender Parity Index stands at 1.07. Nonetheless, there is a need to continue the positive trend in pre-primary but also to further incentivise early gender equality sensitisation, and to further implement the goals of the ESSP. Education data is well disaggregated to capture information on specific populations such as refugees, as well as to point to gaps and related actionable solutions that are also gender-responsive. However, and whilst special needs has become a growing topic in the education sector, there is still a lack of data on how many children have disabilities (in school and out of school) and how to best identify both physical, intellectual, sensory and mental disabilities and address these. Limited information pertaining to special needs & inclusive education is incorporated in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) curriculum."}, {"bbox": [96, 746, 1162, 827], "category": "Text", "text": "Rwanda has an inclusive policy towards refugees, who have access to the national educational system. Hence, they will be equally targeted through any country-wide action. Furthermore, specific project target refugee camps, and key partners have been consulted in this field."}, {"bbox": [96, 854, 1122, 908], "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": [84, 922, 374, 949], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.3 Macroeconomic Policy"}, {"bbox": [453, 964, 773, 988], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Main Macroeconomic Indicators"}, {"bbox": [96, 988, 1009, 1639], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>2020</th><th>2021 (projections)</th><th>2022 (projections)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Real GDP</td><td>-3.4%</td><td><strong>10.9%*</strong></td><td>7%</td></tr><tr><td>Total public debt (including guarantees) (% GDP)</td><td>71.3%</td><td>79.1%</td><td>81.3%</td></tr><tr><td>External public debt (% GDP)</td><td>55.6%</td><td>63%</td><td>66.8%</td></tr><tr><td>Present Value (PV) of total public debt (including guarantees) (% GDP)</td><td>50.3%</td><td>55.7%</td><td>56.7%</td></tr><tr><td>Current Account balance (% GDP)</td><td>-11.9%</td><td>-13.4%</td><td>-12.2%</td></tr><tr><td>Exports - goods and services (% GDP)</td><td>18.7%</td><td>22.3%</td><td>25.7%</td></tr><tr><td>Imports - goods and services (% GDP)</td><td>34.6%</td><td>41.2%</td><td>43.4%</td></tr><tr><td>CPI (consumer price index) - yearly average</td><td>7.7%</td><td>2.4%</td><td>4.9%</td></tr><tr><td>Budgetary deficit (fiscal year) in GDP %</td><td>-9.1%</td><td>-9.2%</td><td>-8.6%</td></tr><tr><td>Budgetary deficit (fiscal year) in GDP % and excluding grants</td><td>-12.4%</td><td>-13.6%</td><td>-12.5%</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1014, 1677, 1143, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 30"}]