Ignatienne Nyirarukundo

"The exercise is geared to facilitate proper allocation of resources and appealed to the public to be honest in giving information about their economic status to avoid a wrong categorization"

"The policy on disabilities is ready but it was met with debate before approval."

"The new policy on persons with disabilities is under review and will be tabled to the parliament soon"

"The debate arose when some officials on the policy task force wanted the disability policy to be joined with social protection policy"

"There is no way a person can lack enough food when some produce is rotting because of lack of ready market"

"Among other issues, they want to assess the agricultural commodity market because they realised that there are issues affecting it."

"I have not seen any money allocated to fighting pest control nor emphasis put on animal farming yet it has significant potential if we, for instance, looked at the impact of Girinka programme on our society"

"I feel that they should have visited both the private and government run energy plants and that way we would have had a clearer picture than what we got today"

"it will take us the next 60 years to get to a mentality of having 2 children. We need to stop some slogans that push parents to have more children."

"We are looking at places like Gitikinyoni and other open-air spaces slightly outside Kigali, where some of these activities can be relocated, to minimize the risk of infections"

"the objective of the law is to promote legislative reform on existing legislation governing the mandate, organizational structure and performance of law enforcement agents within the African Union member states"

"the aim of this meeting was also a good occasion “to exchange views on how to improve the way we are delivering on human security issues and socio-economic transformation programs; Identify challenges that districts are facing and how best they can be solved going forward”."

"The content of the policy responds to issues that the older people face in general, but mainly provides strategies to start saving earlier for old age."