From 15th to 17th January 2019, the the UN Statistics Department in collaboration with DFID and the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda jointly organized a workshop on SDGs metadata.
The workshop brought together staff responsible for compilation and reporting on SGDs from NISR as well as representative from line ministries and institutions that deal with data on SDGs indicators.
The Permanent Secretary of ministry of Health, Mr. Jean Pierre NYEMAZI together with Director General of NISR Mr. Yusuf MURANGWA jointly presided over a first preparatory meeting on the 6th Rwanda Demographic Health Survey.
Permanent Secretary of ministry of Health, Mr. Jean Pierre NYEMAZI highlighted the importance of DHS as one of the crucial and big surveys that give data for health planning and SDGs.
May 30, 2018- The newly appointed Minister of State in charge of Economic Planning, Dr. Claudine Uwera, paid a visit to the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) and met with NISR Director General, Yusuf Murangwa, as well as with the senior management team.
The purpose of the visit was to meet the management team and have discussions on the work done and challenges at NISR.
Through the Africa Information Highway (AIH) program, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) provided an Open Data Platform (ODP) to all African countries. The main objective of this initiative is to assist African countries to improve their data dissemination system and data submission system.
Four winners were awarded during the cerebration of African statistics day on 12 December 2017. Each journalist was awarded a computer and a certificate. Awards for this first Edition were provided by PARIS 21 and UNICEF Rwanda.
