National reconciliation among key transition goals

The overall objectives of Rwanda’s transition programme are to lay the basis for national reconciliation, sustainable economic growth, human resource development and the improvement of living standards, according to Rwanda’s recently-released ESAF policy framework paper. The acute lack of human capacity and poor health standards are major constraints to the country’s poverty eradication efforts, the paper said. As emergency interventions by donors and NGOs are being phased out, the government has been increasing budget allocations to the health sector, but the problem of HIV/AIDS has become a major development constraint, it said. Meanwhile, the government will continue to contribute five percent of budgetary revenue to the Fund for Assistance to Genocide Survivors, which provides shelter, education, healthcare and other support to victims, the paper said.