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New research collaboration with Rwanda Ministry of Education & UNECA

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Students in Butare, Rwanda

Happening Now: A GKI team is headed to Rwanda to work with the Rwanda Ministry of Education and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to analyze Rwanda’s Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Policy seven years after its publication. We will identify areas of success, challenges to the policy’s implementation, and work to build excitement around the great opportunities facing Rwanda’s STI system. Although GKI produced a brief analysis of Rwanda’s STI context for our LINK (Learning and Innovation Network for Knowledge and Solutions) Rwanda program, this analysis will go in deeper depth, and is explicitly designed to bring together Rwanda’s most important innovation system actors.  More updates forthcoming!

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