“100 Reasons to Re-elect Paul Kagame�

Education

• 1.      Ensuring 9-Year Basic Education for all Rwandan children that will tremendously improve literacy levels in the country
• 2.      A promise to have Universal Secondary Education by 2017
• 3.      Making education accessible by all with no segregations, particularly promoting Girls’ and Special Needs’ education 
• 4.      Encouraging parents and communities’ involvement in education
• 5.      Introducing English as medium of instruction in schools to make Rwanda more competitive on the global stage
• 6.      Creating 14 new Higher Learning Institutions, almost tripling Higher Education enrolment in 7 year years    
• 7.      Providing scholarships to the best and brightest Rwandan students to pursue their studies in the best universities of Europe and North America;
• 8.      Promising to achieve 100% literacy by 2017 through effective adult education;
• 9.      Introducing technology in schools starting with primary schools under the ’One Laptop Per Child’ program
• 10.  Increasing the number of qualified teachers at all levels of education through effective distance learning and in-service training and remunerating them adequately.  

 

Health

• 1.      Raising the life expectancy in Rwanda from 43 to 53 years;
• 2.      Introducing 6 types of health insurance including the famous “Mutuelle de Santéâ€� resulting in a health insurance coverage of 94% of the population;
• 3.      Introducing universal immunisation programmes;
• 4.      Introducing health awareness programs;
• 5.      Reducing deaths from malaria by 75%;
• 6.      Reducing infant mortality by 70%;
• 7.      Reducing HIV infections from 9 percent to 2%;
• 8.      Building a clinic in every sector;
• 9.      Reducing water-borne diseases by 60%;
• 10.  Ensuring that more doctors and nurses are trained and deployed evenly across the country 

Justice

• 1.      Trying over 1,100,000 cases in the Gacaca court system;
• 2.      Undertaking a complete restructuring of the justice sector;
• 3.      Introducing many laws for different sectors that brings orderliness in State functioning;    
• 4.      Releasing over 80,000 genocide convicts safely into the community while ensuring law and order in the society;
• 5.      Making convicted prisoners give back to society through work schemes;
• 6.      Building over 100 new courts of law;
• 7.      Training over 300 new judges;
• 8.      Creating an independent judicially and an independent Judge selection process;
• 9.      Promoting local mediation services to reduce backlog of court cases;
• 10.  Introducing the commercial courts  and streamlining the justice system by merging the administration process;

Agriculture

• 1.      Introducing crop intensification programme and boosting  agricultural production by 10 percent annually;
• 2.      Introducing the cooperative system to buy produce from farmers;
• 3.      Diversifying the crops cultivated through sensitisation;
• 4.      Significantly reducing poverty and mal-nutrition through the one cow per family: “the Girinkaâ€� programme;
• 5.      Introducing a phone text service that can inform farmers of the latest crop prices
• 6.      Making subsidized seeds and fertilizers available on credit;
• 7.      Promoting mechanised agriculture through a scheme of 1 tractor per village
• 8.      Making veterinarians more widely spread across the country
• 9.      Introducing irrigation farming
• 10.  Making ‘hunger’ a history in our country

Economy

• 1.      Increasing average earnings of Rwandans from $220 to $560 in 7 years!
• 2.      Strengthening the private sector and streamlining doing business in Rwanda;
• 3.      Increasing the tax base and total revenue collected domestically ;
• 4.      Promoting credit to small to medium sized enterprises;
• 5.      Increasing domestic funding of government to development projects in national budget from 10% to 50%;
• 6.      Promoting transparency by fighting corruption;
• 7.      Diversifying the economy by  promoting new sectors like mining and tourism;
• 8.      Promoting foreign direct investment to nearly $1 billion annually;
• 9.      Making poverty-reduction the hallmark of economic development;
• 10.  Cutting down on government expenditure through initiatives like reducing on the number of government vehicles;    
  

Security

• 1.      Making Rwanda one of the safest places in the world
• 2.      Devolving security responsibility down to the local level
• 3.      Reducing crime through local initiatives
• 4.      Professionalising the Army and integrating former hostile elements
• 5.      Fighting impunity and corruption in the army and hence cementing discipline
• 6.      Sending Rwandan soldiers and Police officers to keep peace in war ravaged places like Darfur, Haiti, Liberia, etc.
• 7.      Introducing electronic ID cards to all adults
• 8.      Instituting a police force that is disciplined and highly professional
• 9.      Establishing a credit scheme for the Army and Police
• 10.  Making peace with neighbours like Democratic Republic of Congo

Foreign policy

• 1.      Making Rwanda a respected partner in regional and international affairs
• 2.      Improving Rwanda’s relations with former hostile nations like France and DRC
• 3.      Making Rwanda one of the biggest contributors of peace-keepers in the UN
• 4.      Working tirelessly to track and prosecute Genocide suspects
• 5.      Joining the East African Community and the  Commonwealth
• 6.      Being one of the foremost advocates of fully integrated EAC
• 7.      Relentlessly promoting Rwanda abroad and expanding her relations to countries such as Australia, Singapore, South Korea, etc.
• 8.      Chairing powerful global initiatives like the UN MDGs and the ITU Broadband Commission and serving on the Advisory board of the World Bank.
• 9.      Creating special friends for Rwanda that have always defended our cause.
• 10.  Refusing to be bullied by the west and always insisting on an equal voice for Africa on the global scene.

Technology

• 1.      Making ICT the main focus of our long-term development
• 2.      Making technology integral to government service provision
• 3.      Supporting the one laptop per child policy
• 4.      Laying thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic cables
• 5.      Connecting all government centers to the internet
• 6.      Abolishing import duties on ICT equipment
• 7.      Building one of the best telephone network systems in the region
• 8.      Strongly advocating for undersea cable to land on EA coastline and now eventually in Rwanda
• 9.      Turning Rwanda into an influential country on ICT global issues
• 10.  Emphasising on ICTs in our education programs  and setting up institutions to oversee this program

 

Infrastructure

• 1.      Constructing good roads across the country 
• 2.      Building communication towers to help link outlying areas
• 3.      Setting up building regulations to improve basic infrastructure
• 4.      Reducing tax on building materials to encourage growth of the industry
• 5.      Bringing electricity to all major areas, with plans to expand it to every village
• 6.      Coming up with a master plan and securing funding for a new international airport  
• 7.      Advocating for Isaka railway line which will reduce transport costs
• 8.      Ensuring that Kigali master plan is implemented 
• 9.      Building district and sector headquarters nationwide
• 10.  Investing heavily in ICT infrastructure

Kagame, the man  

• 1.      He is a man of principle and values
• 2.      He is pragmatic and ready to make tough choices in the interest of his country
• 3.      He promises and delivers
• 4.      He is patriotic and wants the best for Rwandans  
• 5.      He is a visionary and inspirational leader
• 6.      He is intelligent, skilful and innovative 
• 7.      He is a humble man who does not value personal gains
• 8.      He is not a man to bully and he is never shaken by circumstances
• 9.      He has a humble background that shapes his character as a down-to-earth leader
• 10.   He is a family man and cherishes family values

 

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