Rwanda
Overview of national employment policies
- Has national employment policy
- Yes
- Adoption of national employment policies
- 1ST revision in 2007; 2ND revision in 2019
- Is the NEP under revision?
- No
Dialogue and stakeholders in the formulation process
- National
- Ministry in charge of economy/planning/finance
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of employment
- Yes
- Sectoral ministries
- Yes
- Trade unions
- Yes
- children
- -
- Other
- Yes
- text
- Other: National Statistics Organization.
- Civil society groups, such as women or youth associations
- Yes
- Employers’ organisations
- Yes
- ILO
- Yes
- Regional
- Ministry in charge of employment
- Yes
- children
- -
- text
- Regional Employment Service Centre Managers.
- Local
- children
- -
- Other
- Yes
- text
- Other: District Business Development Service Organizations.
- N.A.
- -
Coordinating actor in formulating the employment policy
- Ministry in charge of employment/labour
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of economy/finance/planning
- -
- Sectoral ministry
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
Ministry of Public Service and Labor.Employment policy goals
- Economic growth
- -
- Decent work
- -
- Employment as central to development strategy
- -
- Employment creation /promotion
- Yes
- Ensure equal opportunities / prevent discrimination in employment
- -
- Freely chosen employment
- -
- Full employment
- -
- Poverty reduction
- -
- Productive employment
- Yes
- Protection of workers' rights
- -
- Reduce unemployment
- -
- Reduce underemployment
- -
- Social inclusion
- -
- Environment/green jobs
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
The overall objective is to create sufficient and productive jobs in order to reduce labour underutilization and enhance productivity and competiveness.Strategic objectives
- Strategic objectives
- Policy options (actions) in this Policy are organized under the following broad interventions :
1. Pro-employment macroeconomic framework and sectoral policies;
2. Enterprise development and private sector competitiveness;
3. Agricultural productivity and rural development;
4. Linkage between education, skills development and labour market needs;
5. Labour mobility and migration;
6. Formalization of informal economy;
7. Strengthen active labour market policies and labour market information system;
8. Improving labour administration and working conditions;
9. Promotion of employment opportunities for specific groups.
Employment targets
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- -
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- -
Additional information:
National Employment Policy seeks to help achieve the target of creating 1.5 million productive and decent jobs by 2024.Action plan for implementation
- National action plan
- -
- Subnational action plan
- -
Coordination framework
- NEP coordination framework?
- No
Monitoring indicators
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- -
- Decent hours
- Yes
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- Yes
Additional information:
- Labour force participation rate ; - Proportion of labour force who completed at least secondary school education ; - Employment to population ratio ; - Percentage of employed population in market oriented agriculture ; - Percentage of employed population in industry ; - Percentage of employed population in services ; - Informal employment rate ; - Proportion of informal employment in non-agriculture employment ; - Unemployment rate ; - Unemployment rate among university graduates ; - Unemployment rate among secondary school graduates ; - Unemployment rate among females ; - Unemployment rate among males ; - Unemployment rate among TVET graduates ; - Unemployment rate among persons with disability ; - Youth unemployment rate ; - Time related underemployment rate ; - Combined rate of labour underutilization ; - Proportion of TVET graduates who are employed ; - Proportion of General education graduates who are employed ; - Share of women in non -agricultural paid employment ; - Share of youth in non-agricultural paid employment ; - Percentage of employed in Private sector ; - Percentage of employed in households activities ; - Percentage of employed in public sector ; - Share of agriculture workers ; - Share of industry workers ; - Share of services workers ; - Percentage of persons employed in informal sector.Target groups
- Youth
- Yes
- Women
- Yes
- Informal workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Older persons
- -
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Migrants workers
- Yes
- Other
- Yes
- N.A.
- -
- No target group
- -
Additional information:
Other: child labour.