Government Chief Economist
Phone: +0250 252 596012
Email: gce@minecofin.gov.rw

Objectives of the Department:

Monitoring the Macroeconomic environment and ensuring its Stability overtime. 

Functions of the Department: 

Managing and direct the design, coordination and monitoring of the implementation of sound economic and financial policies for MINECOFIN Rwanda.

• Guiding the creation of evidence based policy making by developing strong research capacities in the directorate.
• Coordination and supervision of all the technical activities of the economic development sector;
• Ensuring the implementation of policies, strategies and programmes in the areas of economic development;
• Instructing the creation and maintenance of synergy between the macroeconomic planning, external finance and budgeting processes in government;.
• Ensuring harmony of strategic plans across government so as to facilitate setting of government priorities;
• Ensuring coordination with key external agencies such as BNR, NISR.
• Maintaining a strong linkage between all the economic sectors (fiscal, monetary, real and external) sectors;
• Building and maintaining a strong budgeting process that links budget to Macroeconomic Polic