Under the report presented to officials gathered in the 15th National Leaders Retreat on Monday, Ngirente said that 19 targets (37%) have been implemented at 75%; 19 targets (37%) have been implemented by 50% and six targets (12%) have been implemented by below 50%.
“Among achievements in economic cluster is that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has developed. Since 2000 to 2016, it increased at an average of 8%, meaning it grew from Rwf676 billion to Rwf6,618 billion.
“GDP per capita is USD729 against USD1240 that was targeted. The statistics of population under poverty line has slightly reduced from 60.4% in 2000 to 39.1% in 2016,” he explained.
He said that child mortality has reduced from 107/1000 deaths in 2000 to 32/1000 currently whereas maternal death is 210/100,000 from 1,071/100,000 in 2000.
Ngirente said that factors that some targets are not well achieved include poor collaboration among local government institutions, poor implementation of master plan, misuse of resources and forgery in reporting.
Poor use of resources is seen in 2015/2016 national budget where among 139 institutions that have been audited by the Office of the Auditor General, 40% had genuine reports and 50% implemented Auditor General’s recommendations of the previous year.
In the same year, 98 infrastructure projects were delayed and the majority of the contractors had been paid.
He said that some sectors that still lag behind in implementation include export development, service delivery development and agriculture development among others.
Vision 2020 is a government development Programme that was launched back in 2000. Its main objective is transforming the country into a knowledge based middle-income country, hereby reducing poverty, health problems and making the nation united and democratic.
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