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• Amplifying Youth Policy beyond COVID-19
  28 mai, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  1.0 Introduction and Context Analysis
  As Rwanda was preparing to celebrate the dividends of vision 2020 and ushering onto a new vision 2030-2050, Covid-19, a global pandemic that began in China near the end of 2019 and developed globally, not only hindered the progress of national development trajectories but also scared the voices of policy advocates to a margin to which I want to amplify in this paper.
  The African governments and elsewhere are pre-occupied on how to provide (...)

• SIX WEEKS AFTER THE COVID-19 CONFINEMENT : WHAT ARE THE SOCIO AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES FOR EAST AFRICA
  6 mai, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  1. Introduction
  On Wednesday 29th of April 2020, the Economic Policy Research Network in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES Rwanda) hosted a digital policy breakfast about the Economy and Regional Integration. The digital policy breakfast sought to engage participants in discussions centered on the topic “Six weeks after the Covid-19 confinement : What are the socio and economic perspectives for East Africa”. This is part of a series of policy debates organized by EPRN in (...)

• The COVID-19 pandemic is harming health, social and economic well-being worldwide, with women at risk and at the center
  30 avril, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  The COVID-19 pandemic is harming health, social and economic well-being worldwide, with women at the center. Women are playing a key role in the health care response to the COVID-19 crisis. Women constitute an estimated two-thirds of the health workforce worldwide, and while globally they are under-represented among physicians, dentists and pharmacists, they make up around 85% of nurses and midwives in the 104 countries for which data are available (Boniol et al., 2019. Women also make up (...)

• The Pandenomics of COVID-19
  30 mars, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  The current COVID-19 pandemic is igniting everything and everyone in a heated-up turmoil. The last time the world experienced such a tremor was in 2008 during the financial crisis and suffice to say banks were pronounced culprits. One could say though, it is starting to feel like 2008, but rather on another level, with a rather different background and far from banks.
  By now, we are all basically well conversant with what COVID-19 is all about - more or less and, felt its blow in one way (...)

• Rwanda’s Fourth Strategic Plan for Agricultural
  9 mars, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  Rwanda’s Fourth Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (PSTA IV) presents an ambitious plan to dramatically change the country’s agricultural sector and rural economy. Released in 2018, the plan forms a critical component of Vision 2050, which envisions Rwanda’s transformation into an upper middle income country by 2035 and a high income country by 2050.
  PSTA IV’s goals are clear, and the spirit of cooperation around the plan is strong. But what does it really take to advance a (...)

• Building Capacity for Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation : A Policy Dialogue on Policy Research and Communications
  28 février, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  Kigali, 26 February 2020 – In today’s busy world, there are few opportunities for researchers, policy advisors, and top decision-makers in government and industry to meet and share ideas, data, and evidence. This was the goal of a national policy dialogue organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), the Economic Policy Network of Rwanda (EPRN), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in conjunction with the EPRN Annual Research Conference, (...)

• Building Productive Capacities for Structural Economic Transformation : The 6th EPRN Annual Economic Research Conference.
  28 février, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  Kigali, 25th February 2020 – The Economic Policy Research Network organized the 6th Annual Economic Research Conference that brought together researchers and policy makers to disseminate research findings from its scholars and those from other research and academic institutions. The Conference targeted national and international researchers, academics, professionals and decision makers working in government, private sector enterprises and institutions, civil society organizations and (...)

• EPRN E-PAYMENT
  19 janvier, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  E-payment system is a way of making transactions or paying for goods and services through an electronic medium without the use of check or cash. To facilitate members and users, we have developed an electronic payment system to be used for payment of membership and training fees.
  The following are the steps and instructions :
  Instructions and Steps : 1. Go to EPRN website (Home page), click on Membership--->Registration---> Choose and click on your membership category (Individual, Student (...)

• Young Citizen Training Program (YCTP) 2020.
  16 janvier, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  The program aims to providing professional skills and knowledge for young Rwandans to ensure their role as active citizens in the socio-economic development of Rwanda. The FES is running similar programs in other countries, e.g. last year we had the honour to welcome a group of 30 young professionals from Madagascar (a video documentary can be found here : https://t.co/TKqtyozFmF?amp=1)
  On this letter, we are delighted to enclose the concept note of the program for Rwanda. Our objective is (...)

• Boosting Domestic Savings in Rwanda
  13 novembre 2019, par Shingiro Jean Claude

  The Economic Policy Research Network in partnership with United Nations Development Program in Rwanda held a policy dialogue to discuss on “Boosting Domestic Savings in Rwanda” authored by Professor John Serieux from the University of Manitoba at Serena Hotel Kigali on 4th October 2019. The policy dialogue started with opening remarks from representatives from EPRN, MINECOFIN AND UNDP Rwanda.
  The policy dialogue would then have Professor John Serieux present about his research which (...)

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