National Integrated Child Rights Policy – August 2021

Following the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC), the Government of Rwanda (GoR) has initiated several steps in the direction of addressing the rights and needs of children in the country. Various social policies have been enacted, plans developed and programmes implemented. Children’s rights and
programming for them cut across various thematic areas and ministerial mandates (health, education, labour, local governance, Jusice), thus a number of government institutions and non-governmental organisations at different administrative levels are involved in their implementation. Additionally, numerous laws addressing children’s rights have been promulgated.