Welcome to
Governance Institute
of Rwanda

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Are you a Rwandan political activist leader? Are you a Rwandan civil society leader? Are you a Rwandan media and thought leader? Are you a Rwandan observer seeking to better understand the challenges and realities of Rwanda? The Governance Institute of Rwanda (GIOR) was established to provide you with knowledge tools for self-empowerment to become the best version of you. 

 

GIOR was born out of the realization that due to the mediocre education in Rwanda, young generation Rwandans who graduated from the country’s tertiary education in the past forty years lack basic knowledge and evidence-based analytic skills. Due to this gap, the young generation Rwanda are not adequately equipped to scientifically assess and expose the dictatorial regime in Rwanda.

 

Let us be clear. Rwanda faces extreme knowledge poverty due to the dismal state of the country’s education. The GIOR equips the young generation Rwandans with intellectual capital to understand, question, and prepare for future leadership in executing our country’s socioeconomic governance and innovation in years ahead.

 

The time to defeat the knowledge poverty among the young generation of Rwandans has come. Knowledge poverty in Rwanda is so extreme that people often resort to exaggerating their academic achievements to cover up their inferiority complex. This enormous knowledge gap and inferiority in Rwanda begins at the very top with none other than General Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s head of state. Kagame and office have flooded the internet with accounts that wildly exaggerate Kagame’s educational achievements. 

 

When Kagame gave a lecture at the United Nations University November 6, 2006, he had his hosts introduce him as follows: Kagame “holds a diploma in Professional Management and Business Studies from the Open University of London (UK).” Similarly, during the 2010 elections, the New Times of August 07, 2010 declared that “Kagame holds a diploma in Professional Management and Business Studies from the Open University of London, UK.” Meanwhile, the Encyclopedia Britannica says that Kagame “studied at Makerere University in Kampala” in Uganda.

 

Kagame is a high school dropout, a factor that no doubt accounts for his utter neglect of education during his thirty-year reign. According the 2024 Rwanda Statistical Yearbook, only 3 percent of Rwandans aged between 16 to 30 years were attending tertiary education. Computer literacy rate among Rwandans aged between 15 and 25 was 15.2 percent. 

 

Rwandan Students perform poorly on literacy and numeracy exams, and teachers often struggle to teach in the official language of instruction English. Teachers lack adequate training and support. To put it simply, Rwanda faces a multi-faceted education crisis characterized by low completion rates, high dropout and repetition rates, and challenges in quality education.

 

The Governance Institute of Rwanda is our initiative to assist young Rwandans with whom we interact and witness the effects of poor education they received during the Kagame reign of the past three decades. These are human rights activists, journalists, political activists and academics we daily encounter in discussions about Rwanda’s economic development. Together, we will fight and lessen the devastating the knowledge poverty in Rwanda. GIOR is your platform to become a leader you deserve to be.