Project Description: Advise to Rwanda Development Board on its future Strategy towards Rwanda Investment Promotion and PPPs

AAiming at being an emerging economy by 2020, the Government of Rwanda (GoR) is committed to implement new PPP projects. After having designed the legal framework for PPPs and a PPP-Policy, the development of National Investment Promotion and Implementation Strategy and -Plan is vital to make private sector engagement a success in Rwanda. This Investment Promotion and Implementation Strategy / Implementation Plan would be targeted at building the strategic milestones from an operational and institutional perspective, including capacity building both in private and public sectors, and further developing the environment for PPP implementation via stakeholder consultations and public and private dialogue schemes as well as an effective communication plan.

From this perspective, the objective of the project was to design a strategy on future Investment promotion and operationalization aimed at promoting private sector investment and generating employment opportunities as important next steps. Other tasks included further facilitating an understanding of PPPs on behalf of Sector Ministries and Government institutions as well as private sector and an increasing acceptance of PPPs based on mutual benefits should be in the center of the PPP Implementation Strategy and Plan.

Activities

XS-Axis Consulting has been assigned to conduct the following activities involving one mission to Rwanda to discuss with major stakeholders relevant matters related to PPPs and Investment Promotion to come up with the following:

  1. Elaboration of a clear Implementation Strategy and Implementation Plan, including a Road Map for the immediate promotion of investments in Rwanda.
  2. Elaboration of a strategic orientation for the areas of PPPs and Investment Promotion, including Investments from Germany, in the framework of the integrated Eco-Emploi Approach, working in the areas of Private Sector Development, Skills Development and Labor Market Interventions and aiming at contributing to sustainable employment in Rwanda

This consultancy has been implemented in close cooperation with RDB, GIZ-EcoEmploi and other relevant Stakeholders in Rwanda.