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The concept « gender » implies the equality, guaranteed by the law between men and women; it also ensures the same rights, opportunities and chances to both men and women. « Gender » by this fact is an approach whose strategies can drive the country toward sustainable development.
Indeed, while taking into account the needs or the interests of both men and women, they participate equally at all level of politics and the economy, which facilitates their active involvement in development and allows, at the same time, men and women to benefit from the fruit of their work.
The Government of Rwanda created favorable conditions to promote gender equality, in the sense of putting in place laws that clearly specify equality between men and women. To this end, the constitution dated 04/06/2003, stipulates that all Rwandans are free at their birthday and remain so and equal according to their rights and obligations.
'The discrimination of all nature, based on…., ethnicity, origin, clan, tribe, color, sex….. is prohibited and punished by the law (art. 11) '.
Also, the Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda underscores on the equality between men and women with an affirmative action to solve specific problems, such as representing women by 30% at decision making positions.
In addition, the decentralization process, Vision 2020 and the EDPRS, integrated gender aspect as a cross cutting issue like the environment and HIV/AIDS.
Rwanda, like other countries in the world, embarked on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), of which the third objective is “Gender Equality and empower women”.
To ensure good planning and achieve objectives, “analyzing gender” by producing disaggregated statistics by sex in all socio economic areas is necessary.
With the cross cutting nature of gender, indicators contained in this chapter should be disaggregated by sex. Since this aspect is not taken into consideration in all the chapters of the document, it has been decided to consecrate the gender statistics in a separate chapter. These indicators cover the demographic characteristics, education, reproductive health, gender violence and the woman's participation in the development.
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National Indicators 
