Rwanda

Rwanda Women Network-Village of Hope received a prize for the best practices to improve the living environment.
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Business Council for Peace, a Non Governmental, non profit making organisation is offering a helping hand to Rwandan business women.
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Gender equality should be given priority in the national budget in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the president of the Forum of Rwandan Women Parliamentarians (FFRP), Specioza Mukandutiye, has argued. Mukandutiye who was speaking at a two-day workshop at Parliamentary Buildings yesterday said that gender mainstreaming is the key player in the economic development of any country.
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President Paul Kagame has said that for a country to exclude women, who form a big percentage of nations' populations, is shortsightedness and a waste of human resource.
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Peace keeping missions that have no women and lack awareness of gender issues can result in unnecessary tensions between peacekeepers and local civilians.
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Rwanda became the first country in the world where women outnumber men in parliament, according to provisional results announced Thursday at the close of a four-day legislative vote. Women won 20 of the 53 seats attributed in direct elections. In Rwanda's unique voting system, another 24 seats are reserved for women in an indirect vote. With 44 guaranteed seats, women would account for at least 55 percent of the lower chamber in Rwanda.
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Angelina Muganza, has been elected President of the Rwandan Association of University Women's (RAUW) General Assembly. In a statement made shortly after the elections, Muganza said that she looks forward to improving on the work that RAUW does, particularly in the development of gender equality in the country.
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The Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) focus on implementing the use of a gender disaggregated data framework in its 2011-2013 strategic plan. The gender disaggregated data enables stakeholders to report on the gender situation in the public and private sector. It also reflects the roles, real situation and general conditions of women and men in every aspect of the society.

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