Analysis of Rwanda’s success stories of MDGs 2015 and a new era of SDGs

Francis Bahizi, Independent Consultant

Rwanda ranks top with 6.0 MDGs progress score in 48 African countries with tremendous achievements in various sectors: Education, gender, Health and population. In Education, Net primary enrollment increased from 86,6% to 96.5 %. Completion rate in primary school increased from 51.7% to 78.6%. In Gender, Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament rose from 20% to 64% 2013 (%). Also poverty reduced from 56.7% to 44.9%and extreme poverty reduced from 37% to 24%. For health status, under 5 mortality rate reduced from 152/1000 in 2005/06 to 76/1000 live births in 2010/11. Infant mortality rate decreased from 86/1000 live births in 2005/6 to 50/1000 live births in 2010/11. Maternal mortality ratio dropped from 750/100.000 in 2005/6 to 476/100.000 in 2010/11. For policy implications, more efforts are required to be geared in attainment of SGDs.