Research
Rwanda Governance Board conducts research on governance in Rwanda to regularly measure the status of governance in the country and gauge citizens’ perception with service delivery and governance. The core purpose of RGB’s research and studies is to generate data and evidence to inform national policies, strategies and plans. RGB also gives pre-authorization to Rwandan or foreigners who want to carry out research in Rwanda on governance and home-grown solutions.
To implement its mission related to governance research, RGB regulary conducts the following researches:
The Rwanda Governance Scorecard (RGS) is a national index published by the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) to consistently assess the state of governance in Rwanda.
The RGS objectives are to generate credible and reliable data on governance, and serve as evidence based source to inform policy, decision making and implementation; as well as contribute to current scientific and contextualised knowledge about economic, social and political governance in Rwanda. It is a crucial tool that tracks Rwanda’s performance in relation to her national, regional and global governance commitments. The RGS places global governance standards and home-grown approaches at the center of its method which makes it uniquely relevant to both the international and national contexts.
The Citizen Report Card (CRC) is an annual publication of RGB which is produced to ascertain the levels of community satisfaction with regard to services rendered. Its purpose is to provide public agencies and policy makers with feedback from users on the quality and adequacy of public services delivered at the grassroots level. This mainly primary-data survey involves the usage of questionnaires to interview individual heads of households as well as conducting community focus group discussions with service beneficiaries and service providers from specific service sectors.
RGB conducts researches related to Rwanda’s innovations in order to consistently evaluate how they are impacting the lives of Rwandans and their general contribution to the country’s progress. Research on governance innovations are also conducted in order to assess whether a given innovation qualifies as a Home-Grown Solution
RGB conducts different researches meant to assess the performance of specific sectors and programs in order to formulate recommendations for improvement and to ensure evidence-based planning across sectors.
RGB consistently analyses reports from different global indices to understand their methodology and how they present and rank Rwanda. This exercise helps to identify gaps in the country's performance in various areas and serves as a basis to engage concerned institutions to follow up and take appropriate actions on important recommendations formulated by those reports.