Woman crossing a makeshift bridge over a small river - Rwanda. © Andy Johnstone (Panos)
Rwanda has made impressive progress since the devastating genocide of 1994, but more than half of the population still lives in poverty and the challenges to transform the country into a thriving trade and investment hub are still significant.
Top priorities
- Enabling poor people to have rights to and earn more from their land
- Invigorating the private sector and increasing trade
- Ensuring more girls and boys complete basic education
- Reducing the numbers of women dying in childbirth
- Giving people the tools to hold their government to account for the public services they receive
We will spend an average of £83 million per year in Rwanda until 2015.