Accomplished

ACBF Grant 65

Capacity Building Program in Public Financial Management (CBPFM) – Grant 65

ACBF has supported Rwanda's efforts to rebuild its economy since December 2000 when it approved a grant of US$ 3million (Grant 65 ) for 4 years for the implementation of the Capacity Building Program in Public Financial Management (CBPFM). CBPFM focuses on four key areas which include strengthening the capacity of the Ministry of Finance for policy and program implementation; strengthening the capacity of training institutions involved in the supply of skilled manpower in economic and financial management; strengthening the indigenous capacity for policy formulation through the creation of an autonomous public think tank and strengthening the capacity of the country in strategic human resources management.

Programme Objectives:

Build institutional capacity through support to training institutions, policy development, strategic planning and management, institutional restructuring and support to public sector reform aimed at improving the performance of the public sector;
Develop human resources by integrating short, medium and long term measures for human resource development within a comprehensive strategy for public sector reforms;
Promote good political and economic governance by improving the effectiveness of central government institutions and improving transparency and accountability of government operations

The Beneficiaries of this Grant were:

Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning(MINECOFIN)
Rwanda Institute of Administration and Management(RIAM)
Institute of Policy Analysis and Research(IPAR)
Training support for civil servants
School of Finance and Banking(SFB)
National University of Rwanda(NUR)
Human Resource Development Agency (HRDA) which in 2005 later became the Human Resources and Institutional Capacity Development Agency(HIDA)

This end date for this Grant was 31 December 2008. The African Capacity Building Foundation provided another grant of US$ 4 million (Grant 143) to support the Multi Sector Capacity Building Programme (MSCBP) which became effective from 24 June 2005.