Other delegates are; Minister of Spatial planning and Housing, Ms. Ana Paula Chantre de Carvalho and governors of the five Angolan provinces among others.
Members of the delegation are in Rwanda for a field visit to learn and engage with Rwandan leaders on the decentralization policy, which is based on the Government of Rwanda’s commitment to empower its people to determine their own future.
The Decentralization policy has its foundations in the fundamental laws of Rwanda as well as in the political and administrative reforms the government has already implemented.
The Government of Rwanda adopted a decentralization policy and a strategy for its implementation in May 2000.
Rwanda’s Minister of Local Governance, Francis Kaboneka received and welcomed the delegation. He explained to them why Rwanda chose to adopt decentralization in its leadership system and the benefits the Rwandan population have got following the system adoption.
Minister Kaboneka said that “the visit is a good opportunity to share the two nations’ experiences which can help both sides keep improving the population’s development and welfare.”
Angola’s Minister of Territory and State Reform, Mr. Adão Francisco Correia de Almeida who is the delegation head, said they chose to visit Rwanda due to both nations’ histories of wars which are almost the same.
While Rwanda’s history was marked by the divisions that led to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi that claimed more than a million lives, “Angola also experienced wars and rebellions that followed its independence and ended in 2002,” as Minister Adão Francis said.
Located in in southwestern Africa, After the Angola’s war of independence from Portugal in November 11, 1975 through the Alvor Agreement, Angola later entered a period of civil war that lasted up until 2002.
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