CENTRAL POLICY BRIEF - Strengthening the Urbanisation and Development of Secondary

The research analysed the following datasets from national surveys (EICV4, EICV5, aspects: (i) the current socio-economic status the fourth national population and housing and the preferences of a set of representative census of 2012), and several other research households from the different sectors in the works on urbanisation. [...] The findings presented in districts; (ii) the current characteristics and this brief are based on lessons learned from 3 of the expectations of a set of businesses from the 6 secondary cities: Muhanga, Nyagatare and all over the districts and; (iii) the views of key Rubavu. [...] The latter’s role The Districts have powers for budget execution and is to oversee, monitor and evaluate the implementation development project oversight across rural and urban of the secondary cities’ master plans and address the areas. [...] Generally, the following bodies/entities have national The District council and the Mayor are responsible for level responsibilities that interlink with secondary city the local authority and the executive secretary (Chief development: budget manager) is responsible for the development of • Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA), an agency the district as a whole, which covers both urban and of MININFRA,. [...] On the other hand, strategic functions to boost its capacity in order to ensure the delivery such as planning, funding, governance and monitoring of the ambitious goals in the next phase of secondary and evaluation are coordinated from the Office of the cities’ policy making.