This situation analysis provides a timely assessment of progress for children, achievements to date, and remaining challenges and barriers to the realization of children’s rights in Rwanda. At the same time, this analysis emphasizes the critical importance of investing in children as key to enabling and promoting sustainable national development. Over recent years, Rwanda has made steady progress towards national development objectives (see Chapter 2) and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet, as the government and development partners address challenges and step up efforts to realize the SDGs, there is a need to take stock of progress for children, to assess remaining challenges, and to explore the reasons why investing in children is so critical.
The situation analysis explores early childhood development, poverty and child protection, among other areas, and calls attention to the need to strengthen the child protection system and invest in early childhood development.
