Youth Sector Strategic Plan 2013-2018

According to the NYP, youth in Rwanda are defined as those aged 14-35. According to EICV3, the youth are 4,159,000 constituting 39% of the entire population in Rwanda, the largest segment of the population.

Arguably, for the Rwandan economy to flourish and to achieve its objective of becoming a middle-income country by 2020, this fraction has to be given special attention. Within this context, the GoR established MINIYOUTH to ensure that the needs of Rwanda’s youth are planned and streamlined into government development plans. MINIYOUTH has undergone major structural changes such as separation from MINISPOC as well as a recent merger within the Ministry of ICT to become MYICT.

Given the continued importance attached to youth, Productivity and Youth Employment is one of four thematic areas for EDPRS II (a document that shall guide Rwanda’s aspirations of medium-term development from 2013 to 2018).