African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

ACBF is Africa’s premier capacity-building institution. Established in February 1991, it is the outcome of a partnership between African governments and the international donor community. Its mission is to build sustainable human and institutional capacity for sustainable growth, poverty reduction and good governance in Africa.

Rwanda is part of the Foundation’s 45 Full Members which comprises of 4 international development institutions (the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) and 41 countries (Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, France Gabon, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Sao Tomé & Principe, Senegal, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The African Union is an Honorary Member.

ACBF currently supports more than 150 full-fledged projects and programs, including regional organizations and operations as well as 26 National Focal Points. The Foundation has also provided small, rapid-response grants to innovative initiatives. Its work presently benefits at least 40 sub-Saharan African countries. It plans to cover all sub-Saharan African countries by 2011. Since 1991, it has committed close to US$390 million to capacity-building interventions. As of 31 December 2007, it had disbursed more than US$218 million to grant recipients.

ACBF’s support is enshrined in six core competency areas - namely, economic policy analysis and management, financial management and accountability, strengthening and monitoring of national statistics, public administration and management, strengthening of the policy analysis capacity of national parliaments, and professionalization of the voices of the private sector and civil society.

In Rwanda, ACBF started its supportive role in capacity building in 1999, when it initiated a needs assessment and formulation of a capacity building strategy for Rwanda’s economic management institutions.

In light of past experience and the capacity building needs, ACBF recommended that Rwanda needed a different approach to capacity building and more specifically public financial management.

To this effect, in June 2001, ACBF approved a Grant of US$ 3 million for the Government of Rwanda (GoR). The Grant is aimed at supporting the Government in strengthening public financial management.

In 2001, the Government decided to initiate a process of designing the Multi Sector Capacity Building Programme (MSCBP) to improve coherence, consistency and coordination of capacity building interventions in the public sector, private sector and civil society. The MSCBP was envisaged to provide a national framework within which all capacity building interventions would be designed, implemented and resources monitored and evaluated.

The MSCBP was officially launched in 2005, however in the course of its preparation and implementation; there was need for both financial and human resources to drive the process. In this regard, the Government through HIDA approached various stakeholders and development partners to support the MSCBP.

In December 2004, ACBF approved another Grant of US$ 4 million for the GoR in support of the implementation of MSCBP.

Despite the fact that MSBCP is supposed to span all sectors of the economy, the resources so far received from the World Bank and ACBF were mainly geared towards the public sector.

However, to-date, ACBF in close collaboration with HIDA has initiated other capacity building support programmes for the private sector and civil society. More specifically, ACBF has approved a Grant of US$ 1.7 million to support capacity building of the private sector in the country. Another proposal of US$ 400,000 has been earmarked by ACBF through HIDA to be channeled to support capacity building initiatives of the Civil Society.

Beneficiary Institutions

• Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning(MINECOFIN)
• Rwanda Institute of Administration and Management(RIAM)
• School of Finance and Banking(SFB)
• National University of Rwanda(NUR)
• National Parliament
• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research
• CCOAIB
• Private Sector Federation
• Conseil de Concertation des Organisations Appui aux Initiatives de Base (CCOAIB)
• Eligible Public Servants for short and long term training

Important to Note:

HIDA was restructured (refer to link About) and the institution that is currently coordinating ACBF supported capacity building activities in the country is the Public Sector Capacity Building Secretariat (PSCBS).

For highlights of major interventions please go to News Articles Link.

Belgian Development Agency (BTC)

The Belgian development agency, BTC, mobilises its resources and its expertise to eliminate poverty in the world. BTC contributes to the efforts of the international community and works towards a society that provides present and future generations with sufficient resources to build a sustainable and fair world. BTC implements more than 300 cooperation projects and programmes in some 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

BTC is active in Rwanda since 2000. It implements projects as defined in the successive Indicative Cooperation Programmes (ICP). ICPs are negotiated between the Government of Rwanda and the Government of Belgium.

The BTC in Rwanda has grown over the years. Since the Joint Commission on Development Cooperation between Rwanda and Belgium in October 2006, a number of new projects and programs have been initiated in addition to scores of others that were already in operation.

Projects and programs as well as sector budget support provided by the BTC in Rwanda focus on four priority sectors: health, education, good governance and rural development taken in a broad sense.
In the Indicative Cooperation Program (ICP) 2007 – 2010, 9% of the budget was foreseen for multi-sector programs such as scholarships and traineeships, micro-projects, funds for studies and expertise, capacity development program and microfinance sector development.

For the capacity development part (budget of 5.000.000 euro), the BTC channeled its support in through PSCBS.

The general objective of the BTC-PSCBS “Support to Capacity Development” project is to contribute to the realization of the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy in the framework of Rwanda's vision 2020. Its specific objective is to strengthen the capacity of public institutions and civil servants to improve service delivery in Rwanda.

Read more about the project on the "Support to Capacity Development project" page

Visit also the BTC website: www.btcctb.org

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World Bank

Public Sector Capacity Building Project

The Government of Rwanda received a credit of US $ 20 million from the International Development Association (IDA) to support the implementation of the Multi Sector Capacity Building Programme (MSCBP) to finance a Public Sector Capacity Building Project (PSCBP) which became effective from 31 st March 2005.

Project Development Objective

"The Project Development Objective is to ensure that Public Sector entities have the capacity for more efficient, transparent and accountable performance in their re defined roles and functions and for achievement of their strategic objectives contributing to the implementation of the PRSP."

Project Components

Ministries, Government Departments and Agencies (MDAs) benefiting from the PSCBP are those responsible for implementing cross cutting reforms (Ministry of Finance and Economic Development – MINECOFIN & Ministry of Public Service and Labour - MIFOTRA) and four sector ministries (Ministry of Education - MINEDUC, Ministry of Health - MINISANTE, Ministry of Infrastructure – MININFRA and Ministry of Lands - MINITERRE) to be supported under the Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit (PRSC).

Component	Objective	Beneficiary Institution
Component 1: Coordination of the MSCBP	HIDA effectively coordinates, monitors and evaluates capacity building interventions, and communicates to stakeholders on targets and achievements of the MSCBP	HIDA
Component 2: Strategic Human Resource Development	Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA's) reduce skills gaps through training and recruitment of well qualified personnel	MIFOTRA MINECOFIN RIAM NUR SFB Top Leadership of MDA's
Component 3: Cross cutting Public Sector Reforms	Improved capacity of MDA's to manage public finances, decentralize and outsource non core functions and monitor outcomes	MINECOFIN RPPA MIFOTRA
Component 4: Enhancing Agency Performance	Participating MDAs develop and implement annual plans and successfully manage their own capacity building to enhance agency performance	MIFOTRA MINECOFIN MINEDUC MINISANTE MININFRA MINIRENA Parliament Senate
Component 5: Information and Communications Technology	Public Sector entities have the policies, skills, ideas and hardware maintenance systems necessary to use ICT effectively	RITA e-Rwanda Preparation Phase

NOTE: THE PUBLIC SECTOR CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT (PSCBP) UNDERWENT A MID-TERM REVIEW IN DECEMBER 2007 AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE PROJECT BE RESTRUCTURED. AFTER A JOINT WORLD BANK AND GOVERNMENT PROJECT RESTRUCTURING MISSION HELD IN APRIL 2008, IT WAS AGREED THAT THE REMAINING PROJECT RESOURCES BE EARMARKED FOR THE FOLLOWING IN THE PROJECT EXTENSION PHASE (2010-2011):

• PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORMS
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS
• NATIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• COORDINATION (SUPPORT TO PSCBS)

For highlights of major interventions please go to News Articles Link.