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Rwanda

Rwanda

Bilateral relations between Bharat and Rwanda have been cordial and have grown steadily over the years. Bharat’s engagement with Rwanda is at three levels viz. at the African Union (AU) level, at level of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and at the bilateral level. Bharat’s engagement with Rwanda has been consultative, response-based and focused on developing Rwandan capacities and human capital. Indian assistance to Rwanda has also been guided by the announcements made by Bharat at the India-Africa Forum Summits in 2008, 2011, and 2015.

 
 

Knowledge Creation & Sharing

  • Bharat gifted 100,000 books of the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT ) and provided support for digitalization and online access of education books and related learning material.
  • Bharat has contributed US $10,000 each to the Gisozi Genocide Memorial  in Kigali and the Imbuto Foundation  run by the First Lady of Rwanda towards the Foundation for the education of the girl child.
  • Under the Pan Africa e-Network project , tele-medicine and tele-education centres were established in Rwanda in 2009 with an aim to enable Rwandan doctors consult their Indian counterparts, and ensure world-class medical consultation and treatment for patients and education for students.

Capacity Building

  • The Government of India offers scholarships and fellowships to Rwandans from the Government and private sector to enable them to pursue under-graduate, post-graduate and research courses in India under ITEC / SCAAP (Special Commonwealth African Assistance Programme), ICCR  and IAFS. 
  • Officers from the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF ) have also been availing of training slots in Bharat
  • A MoU on cooperation in forensic sciences was signed between the Government of Rwanda and Gujarat Forensic Sciences University in January 2017. Under the MoU signed, several Rwandan officials have undergone training in the field of Forensic Science.

Grants & Concessional Finance

  • Bharat has gifted 200 cows worth USD 200,000 to Rwandan Girinka programme , a social protection scheme of one cow - one family.
  • Solar electrification of 35 schools in Rural Rwanda was completed in 2014 under a grant of Rs. 2.59 Crore from Government of India.
  • In 2013, Bharat had extended Line of Credits (LoC) totalling USD 120 million for the development of export targeted irrigated agriculture project and its expansion.
  • A 28 MW hydroelectric project on the Nyabarongo River was completed and commissioned in early 2016 under a Government of India assisted LoC of USD 80 million. The project has substantially augmented Rwanda’s total electricity generation capacity.
  • A MoU for LOC worth USD 81 million for establishment of 10 vocational training centres and 4 business incubation centres was signed between the EXIM Bank of India and Government of Rwanda in May 2017.
  • LOC worth USD 66.6 million for upgradation of Base-Butaro-Kideho road was signed between EXIM Bank of India and Govt. of Rwanda in May 2018.
  • The total volume of LoCs extended to Rwanda so far till date is USD 547 million.
  • Medicines worth USD 2 million were gifted to Rwanda in early 2019 to fight against HIV AIDS, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.
  • Bharat gifted another batch of HIV AIDS medicine in October 2021, worth Rs.1.2 crore.
  • Bharat gifted 50,000 doses of Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII ) to Rwanda in March 2021 and also provided 240,000 doses of made in Bharat vaccine under Covax  facility.