Rwanda’s unemployment rate is at just 3.4 per cent, a statistic that recently generated heated debate on social media. Some believe the country’s unemployment rate is far higher. So how does the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR) compute unemployment figures? The 3.4 per cent means that just over 3 people out of 100 are … Continue reading
Rwanda and Germany yesterday signed three financing agreements worth Rwf15 billion to support Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Continue reading
THE MINISTRY of Public Service and Labour in partnership with the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), is collecting data which will help the government determine the new minimum wage. Currently, the 1974 Labour Law is still in force. And this means the minimum wage is Rwf100 per day. With this, Trade Unions say that there … Continue reading
Last week, more than a thousand people flocked to the second edition of the Rwanda Job Day, a fair which gave the opportunity to those looking for work to meet potential employers. Most of them were higher education graduates, and it is also fair to assume that the majority came from the Kigali area. In … Continue reading
Rwanda received US$ 626 million worth of investments from both foreign and local investors in 2011, a development that is expected to create about 9,060 new jobs. According to Rwanda Development Board’s 2011 statistics, the jobs were made available by 6,000 investment projects that the agency registered as of December 31, 2011. Agriculture, the country’s … Continue reading