This report provides a summary analysis of recent changes in poverty in Rwanda, based on three comparable household surveys (EICV: Enquête Intégrale sur les Conditions de Vie des ménages) conducted over the past ten years, EICV1 in 2000/01, EICV2 in 2005/06 and EICV3, just completed, in 2010/11. Much of the report focuses on poverty measured in consumption terms; household consumption is measured in comparable terms across the three surveys and adjusted for differences between households in the prices they face and in their size and composition.

the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR) have organized a joint launch of the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Startegy (EDPRS 2) elaboration and the publication of the Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV 3) report as well as the 4th Demographic and Health Survey (DHS 4) results.

This was the forth General Population and Housing Census with the main purpose to provide demographic and socio-economic statistics on the people of Rwanda for the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS), District Development Plans (DDP) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This is the NISR first Newsletter, we would like to inform you of what we have delivered and achieved until August 2007.

This is the NISR second Newsletter, we would like to inform you of what we have delivered and achieved in our first quarter of 2008.

FinScope Rwanda 2008 not only enables the assessment of the current landscape of financial access in Rwanda,but also provides a benchmark for repeat surveys that will enable the impact of new access related policy interventions to be assessed.

The Establishment Census Publication for 2011 provides a comprehensive data base that will be utilized in creating business registers anf in conducting future business survey. The Census collaborating organizations mentioned above are full of hope that the census results would help decision makers setting forth policies and programs that would accelerate the pace of development of nonagricultural economic sectors of Rwanda.

This service charter spells out the role of NISR, and highlights the services offered and requirements therein. It lists the service centers at which our services can be accessed and the guiding legal instruments.