Rwanda an example to emulate. May 27, 2010 at 9:32pm Rwanda is making substantial progress towards improvement of health and development and is working towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ,undp.org/mdg/ which is a challenging task because the country has had genocide in 1994 [close to a million people killed], has few natural resources, is landlocked, and has high population growth [Rwanda has same superficies in square kilometer and population as Haiti] . Like many impoverished developing countries, Rwanda’s health system has had an uncoordinated plethora of donors and NGOs, shortage of health staff, inequity of access, and poor quality of care in health facilities. Three (3) health system developments introduced by the Rwandan government are removing these barriers to care—i.e., 1- the coordination of donors and external aid with government policy, and monitoring the effectiveness of aid; 2- a country-wide independent community health insurance scheme [Mutuelle de Santé]; 3- and the introduction of a performance-based pay initiative. If these innovations are successful, they might be of interest to other countries. However, Rwanda still does not have sufficient financial resources for health and will need additional external aid for some time to attain the MDGs. Aid accepted by Rwanda has been decreasing from 90 % to 50%. and investments from private and international business such as Costco, tourism industry have been increasing, along with good governance, transparence and civil society participation. Rwanda has seated all his 3 million children in classrooms and plan to train 50,000 computer programmers by 2020. Rwanda has changed the language of education from French to English and joined the English Commonwealth. Unemployment decreased and pay has increased to 30%. Please N.B, we failed to present the other side of the Rwandan medal that we all know is not all too shiny. Well, you don’t change immediately a winning team. Hope in a future not too distant, we can see in actions and in reality similar improvements under other skies, a real Renaissance.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:53:40 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015