The Guiding Principles Underlying the Development of the NICI-2005 Plan
The development of the NICI-2005 Plan is based on the following guiding principles:
1. The Plan is aimed at contributing to the realization of the Vision for Rwanda (VfR) as well to the achievements of the relevant Missions and the
Strategies of the Vision.
2. The various Programmes, Initiatives and the corresponding Plan-Actions of the Plan are designed to be practical, realistic and implementable
with clearly stated time-bound measurable (TBM) targets.
3. The Plan took in account the fact that: the Government will continue to formulate and implement its short to medium term socio-economic
development and budgetary plans during the life-span of the Plan. In this respect, the NICI-2005 Plan is not aimed at substituting this exercise.
Rather it serves as a point of policy-reference and a framework for complementing and supplementing this exercise within the context of the
Government’s long-term goal to transform Rwanda into an information-rich and knowledge economy by pursuing an ICT-led socio-economic
development policy.
4. The Plan also incorporates a Programme Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Framework that allows for appropriate intervention procedures
and actions with clear guidelines on how and when these can be activated and by which agency or authority. This Framework --- forming a key
component of the Plan implementation process is developed to facilitate and co-ordinate an enforceable bottom-up monitoring and evaluation
mechanism and reporting procedure involving a number of key players namely: the Program Execution and Co-ordination Committees (PECCs)
of the Government Ministries and the PSOs; the Programme Evaluation and Monitoring Unit (PEMU) of RITA and the Plan Review Standing
Committee (PRSC) of the NITC. Also to play a key role in this process is the Round Table Plan Review Meeting to be convened annually by the
NITC and Chaired by H.E the President – the National ICT Champion.
5. The Plan as far as possible is flexible enough to allow for its modification, revision and adaptation as the need arises during its 5 Year
implementation time-frame.
6. As part of the process of building flexibility into the implementation of the Plan, the Plan as far as possible avoids going into specific
implementation-details of the programmes and initiatives identified for implementation under the Plan. The premise is that, for each major
programme or initiative, these details will be developed and worked-out within the context of a Project Implementation Document or Report
during the actual implementation of the Plan to take into account specific circumstances, constraints and opportunities and developments operating
at the time. This approach also allow for the fine-tuning of the programme details as the need arises during the actual implementation of the Plan.
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