Rwanda Green Growth Strategy 18nov11 - Global Climate Change ...

Chapter 5In the medium term, these courses will be set up at universities to create a local knowledge base andplatform for long-term research. The education framework for Rwanda is shown in Figure 16. Thefoundation for capacity building is school education as it increases the number of children who can go on totechnical or university training. Rwanda has made much progress in this area with 95% enrollment inprimary school (2.3 million children), though enrollment in lower secondary school was only 22.6% in 2009.In 2009, half as many students attended technical and vocational education and training (TVET) thanuniversity. Although both are very important for Rwanda’s development, greater numbers are needed inTVET to support the growing economy. The Rwandan Workforce Development Authority (WDA) is fasttrackingTVET and has proposed a new TVET qualification framework. Demand-driven apprenticeshipprogrammes in partnership with the private sector are a feature of WDA work, and help ensure high-qualitytrainers. The WDA will be supported and TVET courses expanded to develop skills in energy and waterefficiency, renewable energy, agroforestry, passive housing, organic agriculture, waste recycling and dripirrigation.UniversityDegreesPolytechnicsTVETCertificate 1-5DiplomaAdvancedDiplomaTechnicalSecondarySchoolsTVETCertificate 1-3VocationalTrainingCentresTVETCertificate 1Special EntryPathwaysUpper SecondarySchoolBasic Education (primary and lower secondary schools - 9 years)Figure 16: Education framework in RwandaIn the long term, Rwanda will increase its research and development (R&D) capacity by forming linksbetween government, industry and relevant higher learning and research institutions in Rwanda (KIST,NUR, etc) and abroad. Such links will enable effective research in line with the Strategy and supportinnovation and locally appropriate solutions. RMS and the Centre for Climate Knowledge for Developmentwill play a key role in this area. Other research centres may be set up to support the growing demand forresearch and policy development and a brief proposal for an Energy Research Centre for Rwanda is givenin Appendix G. In addition, universities will set up courses to cover all the professions required to maintain aclimate resilient low carbon economy. This will support the aspiration of Vision 2020 in creating aknowledge-based economy.The priorities for the Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Pillar are:Priority 1. Improve education by expanding school curricula, tertiary education, technical andvocational training and farmer field schools to address climate resilience and low carbondevelopment34Government of Rwanda