{"id":35929,"date":"2017-09-28T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/namibian-mps-in-rwanda-for-study-tour\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:45:32","slug":"namibian-mps-in-rwanda-for-study-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/namibian-mps-in-rwanda-for-study-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian MPs in Rwanda for study tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namibian MPs appreciated the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) as an institution that the government has established to regulate governance and ensure population\u2019s evaluation towards their leaders (citizen report card).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, the head of delegation, MP Hilma N.Nicanorsaid that they chose to visit Rwanda as an exemplary countrythat has high number of women in decision making positionsin the World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Namibia, in our efforts we are trying to have good number of women in decision making and in the private sector,so we are learningRwanda\u2019s best experiences which we can take back home to improve from where we are.As we speak now, Namibia has got a percentage of 46% in parliamentary house\u201d she said <\/p>\n<p>Nicanor said that the visit has been very fruitful as they learnthow Rwanda has been successful in attaining women presentation in parliament through having registered laws addressing the whole issue of empowerment of women and resulted in bringing many women in decision making positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur impression in terms of governance is that we still have some good examples to learn. Despite having lots to learn inpolicies or strategies, we also have to take into consideration the importance of monitoring and evaluation in order to ensure that these laws and policies are being compliant\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RGB Chief Executive Officer Professor Anastase Shyaka said that the team visited RGB to understand the politics and governance innovations of the country and more particularly to understand and how Rwanda is mainstreaming gender equality in its governance structure and systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came to RGB to get sense of what we do as a governance board and to get sense of how home grown solutions have impacted transformation in Rwanda. They also want to understand how RGB is monitoring and evaluating the delivery of public institutions and more importantly how we are implementing strategic plansby following up the implementation of homegrown solutions\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Namibian MPs started their visit in Rwanda on Monday and they will wind up on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21888 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dnws.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21889 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gkyuhj.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21887 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ctyghn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of Members of Parliament from Namibia is in the country for a five-day study tour on Rwanda\u2019s governance systems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35929"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35929"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}