Student Conferences & competitions

The Students’ Conference on “Role of youth in Establishing Rwanda as a Globally Competitive Knowledge-based Economy” was organized by the Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN) and attracted more than 250 experts from different public institutions, NGOs, researchers and academics institutions, private companies and development partners. This student’s competition was held on 28th October, 2019 from 10am-2pm at Mount Kenya University.
The conference started by welcoming remarks of Dr Mercyline (...)

1. Background
The scope for evidence-based policy making in Rwanda is constrained by limited capacity in policy analysis and research. The well-qualified researchers and policy analysts in Rwanda are spread too thinly across different institutions. To address this gap, a number of organizations came together to establish the Economic Policy Research Network, aiming at building a community of economic policy practitioners. EPRN aims to build a pool of researchers and policy analysts in (...)

I. BACKGROUND The Government of Rwanda hails the importance and relevance of early building the capacities of young people as future flag bearers. Currently, Rwandan youth constitutes more than 60% of Rwanda’s entire population. Connected to that, youth especially intellectuals from universities are not only viewed as future business leaders, but as also future economic policy practitioners and beneficiaries of the today’s economical space. In the same vein, they are the cornerstone of the (...)

1. Background
The scope for evidence-based policy making in Rwanda is constrained by limited capacity in policy analysis and research. The well-qualified researchers and policy analysts in Rwanda, are spread too thinly across different institutions. To address this gap, a number of organizations came together to establish the Economic Policy Research Network, aiming at building a community of economic policy practitioners. EPRN aims to build a pool of researchers and policy analysts in (...)

The Students’ Conference on “the role of youth in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" in Rwanda was organized by the Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN) and attracted more than 200 experts from different public institutions, NGOs, researchers and academics institutions, private companies and development partners. This students competition was held on 29th November, 2017 at University of Rwanda college of Business and Economics.
The conference started by the welcoming remarks (...)