What Does JICA Do in Rwanda?

Overview of the Program for Promotion of Value Added Agriculture and Business

1. Vision

   Rwanda has set a development goal to be a middle income country by 2020. This requires a structural shift of the economy through a viable market orientated agriculture and expansion of non-agricultural sectors. Therefore, to reach this ambition will depend largely on efforts made on the modernization of agriculture. In this regards the Ministry of agriculture and Animal Resources set up a mid-term strategy, The Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation (PSTA II) with four comprehensive program including (1) Intensification and development of sustainable production systems (2) Support to the professionalization of the producers (3) Promotion of commodity chains and agribusiness development. (4) Institutional development.

   Since JICA resumed its bilateral cooperation activities, and reopened its country office in 2005, it has been supporting strategically Rwanda agriculture sector through two main schemes, grant aid and technical cooperation to enhance market oriented or profitable agriculture with a program approach well aligned with The Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation (PSTA II) .

2. Program Approach

   The overall goal of our cooperation in agriculture sector is to promote a strategic collaboration to enhance profitable agriculture sector by encompassing most priority areas addressing policy level and grassroots level issues.

3. Ongoing Projects
   • Enabling the formulation and implementation of Rwanda's National Rice Development strategies.
   • Irrigation strategic planning advisory services (Sept 2011 - Sept 2013)
   • Addressing the issue of capacity building
   • One Village One Product (OVOP) Program Phase I (June 2011 - June 2012)