All posts tagged "Rwanda"

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  Fixing Phoenix and government delivery culture: Five minutes with Alex Benay, Public Services and Procurement Canada

  This interview with Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), is part of a ‘Five minutes’ series featuring speakers from AccelerateGOV, taking place in Ottawa on

  • Posted October 4, 2024
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  UK asylum flights to Rwanda grounded; Singapore to expand elderly care; US Supreme Court shields feds from personal lawsuits: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK’s Rwanda deportation scheme stalled after ECHR issues legal challenge The UK government’s plan

  • Posted June 16, 2022
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  Rwandan government launches AI centre to boost technological innovation

  Rwanda has created a centre dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence to help create “faster, more agile approaches” to using the use of emerging technologies by government. The centre

  • Posted April 12, 2022
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  UK plans African cities centre

  The UK is to set up a specialist centre that will help to improve the way African cities are planned, built and run, with the aim of making urban centres

  • Posted January 22, 2020
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  IMF report highlights tax benefits of tackling corruption

  Reducing corruption could raise tax revenues by US$1 trillion annually, according to the IMF’s 2019 Fiscal Monitor, if the world’s most corrupt countries make progress in tackling the problem over

  • Posted April 22, 2019
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  Rwanda pilots digital aid transparency scheme

  Rwanda has been selected as the pilot country for a new digital system that enables donors and recipients to share data on aid management, with the aim of improving transparency.

  • Posted October 7, 2018
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  Rwanda criminalises ‘humiliating’ cartoons and writing

  Cartoons and writing that “humiliate” civil servants or members of parliament are now a criminal offence in Rwanda, after the government brought in new legislation. Those found guilty of the

  • Posted October 4, 2018
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  Looking after number one: prioritisation in government

  Governments find it notoriously difficult to agree a manageable list of top priorities. Dan Hymowitz of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, which has worked with governments across the continent,

  • Posted March 29, 2016
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  US urges support for global food security programme

  The US government has sent a letter to its international partners in the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), urging them to expand their support. The GAFSP was formed

  • Posted April 30, 2014
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