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Residents in Bugesera District have been expropriated from their lands to pave the way for construction of an international airport. PHOTO | DANIEL S NTWARI
As the year comes to an end, the government has confirmed that 85 per cent of its 2015 resolutions were implemented.
The daunting task now firmly lies on how to complete the remaining portion of 15 per cent, on top of achieving new targets drawn for 2016 at the recently concluded National Dialogue Council, locally known as Umushyikirano.
The government drew up 20 resolutions for 2015, of which 17 were well implemented, two were partially implemented and one was not well implemented.
Another 13 resolutions for 2016 were approved by President Paul Kagame during the just-concluded national dialogue and they are set to be implemented alongside targets that were missed in 2015.
According to Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi, institutions with resolutions that were not well implemented have committed to reach full implementation by end of the financial year 2015/2016 as some of them ?require huge budgets and timelines exceeding one year.?
Unmet resolutions include the linking of six secondary cities ? Rwamagana, Huye, Rusizi, Muhanga, Musanze and Nyagatare ? with the industrialisation policy.
Although sites were located for construction of massive industrial parks in the districts, complications arose over compensation of evicted residents.
In Rwamagana, expropriation details of 120 out of 127 people affected by the project was sent to the Ministry of Finance but full expropriation is expected to end next year, according to the Prime Minister.
In Musanze, the land identified for an industrial park was abandoned altogether because it required high expropriation cost ? but a new site has been located, meaning that the project might have to be pushed beyond its implementation date.
Another resolution that proved troublesome was the establishment of a unique partnership between the government and parents under which they would share costs to improve feeding for vulnerable pupils under the Nine- and Twelve-Year Basic Education (9-12YBE).
An assessment of how many pupils would benefit from the scheme was not completed on time; therefore, the Ministry of Education instructed districts to use part of their budgets to support 114,730 students identified as needy in all districts as they waited for actual figures to be made available.
Speaking on KFM radio on Wednesday, Anastase Shyaka, the director of Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), said the achievements in 2015 were laudable although there is ?no honeymoon? for public servants and work must continue.
?As was said during the National Dialogue, the government needs to put more effort in solving the problems of residents and being effective while implementing strategies,? said Mr Shyaka.
Meanwhile, key achievements in 2015 included the adoption of a new maternity leave insurance scheme, under which employed women on a 12-week maternity leave are paid their full salary by their employer for the first six weeks while the pension scheme covers the other six weeks.
In the past year, the government also ratified a new pension law.
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