Prof. Shyaka made the remarks yesterday during the Diversity and Inclusion Forum organized by the World Bank and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Rwanda.
The forum brought together delegates from 15 countries that came to learn from Rwanda’s resilience after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and how citizens managed to live again in harmony.
Prof. Shyaka said that Rwanda’s goal is to promote inclusive growth in politics, welfare, and economy among other areas after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that all choices made were meant to set up policies integrating all citizens.
“Policies enabling equal sharing of opportunities were established along with and giving room to various areas of national welfare, in politics and development. Most of the time poor people are forgotten when talking about inclusive growth. Rwanda’s politics established supporting programs so that no one is left behind the development and improved wellbeing,” he said.
“Today, a winning political party doesn’t take everything. That is our inclusive vision and unique feature of Rwanda giving us pride. We chose it because we learned from our history and how divisive politics are destructive. We pulled lessons of promoting inclusive politics,” added Prof Shyaka.
UNDP representative in Rwanda, Stephen Rodriques said the forum was organized because part of the population is excluded in development over diversities like religion, ethnicity among others in different parts of the world.
“At UN it is our creed that all people must be equal in front of the law and treated equally. This is what we are promoting,” he said.
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