CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

Decentralization is one of the most important strands of the Government of Rwanda’s governance and development agenda for the last two decades. In recent years, the GoR has taken a number of steps in moving the decentralisation agenda forward. However, these efforts suffer from a number of limitations and weaknesses, including limited capacity at the central government level to comprehensively visualize, plan and implement key dimensions of decentralization; and low capacities of local government to master all the of LG management: planning, financing local priorities and service provision.