Budgeting for Effectiveness in Rwanda: From Reconstruction to Reform

The overall objective of this comprehensive report is to consider Rwandaa s budget support in the context of its overall public expenditure and resources. The report reviews the countrya s general budget support relevance, rationale, and outstandingMoreThe overall objective of this comprehensive report is to consider Rwandaa s budget support in the context of its overall public expenditure and resources. The report reviews the countrya s general budget support relevance, rationale, and outstanding challenges by providing a historical background of budget support- assesses progress in budget support related processes and practices- reviews economic and structural reforms and budget support predictability trends- assesses the net resources available to the government of Rwanda and how these resources have been utilized- provides a review of resource allocations and spending among the governmenta s ministries, including its transfers to districts breaking down public expenditures according to the structure of the Organic Budget Law- summarizes in-depth studies undertaken in the agriculture, education, health, social protection, infrastructure (water and sanitation, energy and transport sectors) with the objective to provide a consolidation of data to enhance the understanding of the countrya s overall public expenditure, to help put each independent sector-specific analysis into the context of the overall budget allocation considerations, and to enhance the overall priority-sector analysis- provides a snapshot of non-priority sectors between 2004 and 2007- and finally addressing outstanding challenges and offering concluding remarks.