The ministerial order sets out the modalities for the importation, marketing, and distribution of aquaculture and fisheries products, equipment, and materials. The products classified by relevant authorities are; living fish, fish eggs, fresh, frozen, cooled, preserved fish or processed fish prepared by salting, smoking, drying, molluscs and shellfish. The equipment and materials under the scope of this order include all aquaculture and fishing inputs, including vessels, nets, bow nets, hooks, lamps, fish feeds, drugs, and other fishing inputs and fish productions.

The order ratifies the loan agreement between the Republic of Rwanda and the import-export bank of India.

The ministerial order addresses hygiene issues, as it relates to beekeeping and the use of toxic substances. It expressly makes provisions for beekeeper hygiene, hygiene of beehives and equipment, use of toxic substances in beekeeping and contamination prevention, and measures to be taken in response to perceived or confirmed bee diseases.

The order withdraws from classified status, the Kanembwe Forest of two hundred and eleven hectares, seventy-seven acres, and eighty-six centiares situated in the Western Province, Rubavu District, Rubavu Sector.

The order spells out the organizational structure, functioning, responsibilities, and inter-agency working relationship of the district of the land bureau. The district of land bureau sees to land management, administration, and use, at the district level.

The law defines the mission, organization, and functions of the national youth council in Rwanda. Youths in Rwanda are classified based on age, between sixteen, and thirty years. The council has a distinct legal personality and enjoys financial and administrative autonomy. The council is to be supervised by the ministry of youth in Rwanda.

The ICT4RAg was developed to integrate the use of information and communications technology for improved agricultural efficiency. The strategy realizes the existence of ICT platforms, and the need to create a clear direction to coordinate these platforms and other future ones. It seeks to ensure ICT’s contribution to sustainable agriculture is maximized and complement other crucial government strategies and policies.

The plan expressly addresses the management activities to be carried out by stakeholders when handling disaster situations. Prominent disasters faced in Rwanda include; droughts, fire, floods, earthquakes, landslides, heavy rain with strong winds, lightning and thunderstorms, traffic accidents, diseases and epidemics.

The government of Rwanda, in its quest for sustainable production of food, cash, export, and industrial crops developed the 10year irrigation master plan to maximally utilise surface and underground water resources available for the full promotion of irrigation in the country. The plan seeks to address the need for irrigation, arising as a result of the uneven distribution of rainfall and water resources in the country. Phase one of the plan successfully identifies national potential irrigation areas, while phase two seeks to validate the findings of phase one and explore the detailed design aspect of the individual irrigation scheme.

Rwanda has an ambitious goal of 100% water service coverage in the country as enshrined in its vision 2020. The multi-sectoral policy and strategy are charged at exploring approaches to achieving the targets set in other national and international policies like vision 2020, the MDGs, and the economic development and poverty reduction strategy (EDPRS). It also serves as an update to the water supply and sanitation policy of 2004.

The plan highlights the government’s directions charged towards achieving the medium to long term policy actions and objectives captured in the 2018 national forest policy. Its objectives range from promoting active private sector participation and investment to ensuring sustainable forest management through implementing integrated forest management plans.

This serves as a revised policy to the national disaster management policy of 2009. The policy sets out to establish the guiding principles for stakeholders. It highlights the roles, institutional structures, authorities, and key processes crucial to mounting a coordinated approach at decision making and effective response and management of disasters.

The contingency plan charts the course of action to be taken as part of efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from droughts. The National Contingency Plan for Drought is a multi-sectoral plan to maximally reduce drought impacts via institutional coordination, enhance monitoring and early warning capabilities, water shortage impact assessments, and preparedness, response, and recovery programs. The plan identifies an integrated, regional approach to addressing drought and drought action levels.

The strategies contained in this document are charged towards mainstreaming climate resilience and low carbon development into the national plans of Rwanda; the vision 2020, and the economic development and poverty reduction strategy (EDPRS). It has a 2050 vision to achieve development in the country with low carbon emission and independence from oil for power generation.

The economic development and poverty reduction strategy of Rwanda represents the implementation framework towards achieving the key targets and objectives enshrined in the vision 2020, MDGs, and the seven-year government of Rwanda programme.

The country’s commitment to engaging in the international process of developing a climate change agreement. Five guiding pillars drive the implementation of the strategy: “Institutional Arrangements; Finance; Capacity Building and Knowledge Management; Technology, Innovation and Infrastructure; and Integrated Planning and Data Management”.

The policy acknowledges the important role played by forest resources in the livelihood of Rwandans. This reliance has led to the degradation of these resources over the years. It also points at recent benefits being enjoyed by the forestry sector as a result of political goodwill geared at developing the sector. This policy thus seeks to guide activities towards making the sector flourish further for sustainable benefits to all segments of the society. It prioritises driving active private sector participation.

A series of guidelines on selected high-risk clinical conditions in some speciality areas. It is targeted at professional healthcare managers to serve as a resource for delivering standardized health care at all levels across the country.

The third HSSP is a continuation of HSSP I and HSSP II. It hopes to consolidate the achievements of both plans in line with the government’s resolve to tackle the health challenges of the population. It addresses critical areas like maternal health and non-communicable diseases. It holistically covers every aspect of the health sector from prevention, treatment, and control of diseases, to general strengthening of the health sector

The Presidential order ratifies the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted in Paris on December 12, 2015. The ministers of natural resources, foreign affairs and cooperation are tasked with implementation.