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MINALOC, Functional Review draft, 31 March 2008
o Monitoring of operations and institutional capacity building of deconcentrated and/or
decentralized entities (Provinces, Cities and Districts),
o Coordination of interventions and mobilisation of the necessary resources relating to good
governance, community development and social welfare
On MINLOC’s website, it states “Mission of MINALOC: The main mission of the Ministry of Local
Administration, Good Governance, Community Development and Social Affairs is: Promoting the
welfare of the population by good governance, community development and social affairs.”
Its name has allowed it to integrate cross-cutting missions which go beyond those of one single ministry.
Agents of the units of MINALOC consider that the mission of the ministry is to direct and evaluate the
functions of the deconcentrated and decentralised entities and to build their capacity.
Currently, MINALOC is called Ministry of Local Administration, Good Governance, Community
Development and Social Affairs. This Ministry has the following mandates:
o Local administration
o Community development
o Good governance and
o Social affairs
One of the options would be to suggest that MINALOC limits its role to those aspects which are related
to its principal mandate, which is local administration.
However, MINALOC is to be congratulated for its rapid development of decentralisation, the policies and
legal and regulatory framework of the decentralisation. The legal and regulatory framework is subject to
some criticism directed towards MINALOC as an institution. The legal and regulatory framework relating
to Local Government is almost perfect 18. MINALOC has done everything to ensure the full application
of these laws and regulations. Everybody is agreed that the completion of this will make Rwanda a centre
of excellence as a model for administrative and financial decentralisation in Africa. 19.
A.3.2. Legal and regulatory framework
Tableau 3. List of principal reference documents
Title
INSTITUTIONAL
Date Location In Application?
18 Further on in the document there is a list of the main laws and regulations of decentralisation. The legislation goes
as far as specifying the time of the meetings during councils and the number of participants.
19 In supporting the vision of the President of the Republic, the leadership of the Ministry and Secretary General of
MINALOC is evident in an excellent series of policy and legal documents to which the Government of Rwanda,
parliament, inter-ministerial collaboration and cooperation of donors have all contributed to guide the
implementation of decentralisation and the improvement of the welfare of the population. It should be remembered
that social affairs are part of the mandate of MINALOC.
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