Prerequisites:

H10.3

Provide YTS Grants to private and public sector
organizations participating in the Scheme to defray part
of the cost of providing job or training unemployed
youth on the scheme

Setting-up the HRD
Fund
Plan-Action Linkages:

Provide YTS Grants to private and
public
sector
organizations
participating in the Scheme during
each stage of the programme

The Human Resource
Development Agency

HRD-9
Programme to set-up the Rwanda Worker’s College and
associated Regional Training Centers for Human
Resource Development and Skill Update.

H10.4

Note: This initiative is aimed at setting up under the
auspices of the National Human Resource Development
Agency (NHRDA), the Rwanda Worker’s College
(RWC) in Kigali with branches and Centers in other
regional capitals. The RWC and its Regional Centers
will provide short and long-term training and skill
update programmes in ranges of skills and professional
areas to public and private sector workers.
Retrenched civil and public servants as well as out-ofwork private sector employees and demobilized military
personnel planning to embark on a different career or
rejoin the workforce will also avail of the training
programmes of the RWC.

Prerequisites:
Setting-up the NHRDA

The NHRDA in collaboration with
the Ministry of Public Service and
Labour, the National Labour
Union,
the
Private
Sector
Federation to commission
and
complete a Report for setting up the
RWC by 2002.

Setting-up the National
HRD Fund
Plan-Action Linkages:
H1.2, HRD-9, E9.5

The RWC and its Regional Centers will also serve as a
suitable institution for implementing some of the
components of the National Life-Long Learning
Initiative (NLLI) (as per E9.5) designed to promote and
facilitate the concept of Life Long Learning in Rwanda.
It is expected that the initial funding for setting-up the
National Workers College and some of it Regional
Centers will come from the National HRD Fund.

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The NHRDA
Ministry of Public
Service and Labour,
The National Labour
Union, and

Establish the RWC in Kigali by
2005
Set-up a number of Regional
Centers of the RWC in key
Prefectures within the time frame
of NICI-2010

The Private Sector
Federation

Select target paragraph3