Two hundred women from Gasabo and Rwamagana districts have graduated from a life-changing program aimed at promoting clean cooking technologies and financial literacy, marking a major step forward for women’s empowerment in Rwanda’s urban communities.
As Rwanda marks 31 years since the end of the Liberation War, women in Nyagatare District are celebrating not only national peace and development, but also their personal role in shaping the country’s future. Many of these women were teenagers when they joined the liberation struggle led by the Rwandan Patriotic (…)
The Rwanda women’s national basketball team has kicked off training camp ahead of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket tournament, set to take place in Côte d’Ivoire from July 25 to August 3.
Seven Rwandan women are amongst 50 African women selected as Fellows for the second cohort of The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship, an initiative of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). (…)
The National Women Council (NWC) at the level of the City of Kigali has called upon women leaders in the City to participate in the country’s development by taking advantage of the opportunities presented by gender equality principle in decision-making.
Rwandan pregnant and breastfeeding women prisoners are receiving food supplements to keep them and their unborn babies healthy, according to the Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS). Convicted minors also receive food supplements, according to the recent ministerial order.
In 2007, a group of 18 women and girls were thinking of how they could transform the community around them, but they were limited by inadequate means to achieve their dream. Driven by the fact they were residing in Nyamirambo, a famous neighborhood in Kigali city, their critical objective was to address (…)
The maternal mortality ratio in Rwanda shows a great step made as the number continues to decline from 1,007 deaths in 2000 to 259 presently, the World Bank indicates.
According to a recent study published in the Rwanda Biomedical Journal (RBC journal,) Rwandan women utilizing barrier methods such as condoms and traditional methods such as periodic abstinence or withdrawal for birth control are more prone to experiencing a subsequent pregnancy within a year. This contrasts with (…)
By James Buyinza Merk Foundation in collaboration with African First Ladies have called on governments in Africa and Asia to lay stringent measures in fighting female infertility stigma that undermines women’s equal representation and promote quality health facilities.
At least 3,000 female leaders in farmers’ cooperatives in the districts of Nyamagabe, Burera, Kirehe and Nyamasheke have received smartphones to be able to easily access agriculture information and disseminate it to other farmers.
The gap between financially included Rwandan men and women is narrowing as more women embrace financial services, steering the country in the right direction towards achieving gender equality in the uptake of financial products, FinScope Rwanda Gender Thematic Report 2020 has revealed.
