71. The government has also established a women council by Law no.02/2011 of 10/02/2011 determining responsibilities, organization and Functioning of national women council. All this aimed at ensuring equality and non discrimination of women. After 1994 genocide against Tutsi, Rwanda has undertaken a number of measures to eliminate the culture of divisionism that characterized the past regimes. One of the major actions taken was to put in place a broad based Government (Government of National Unity) within which all categories of Rwanda are represented. 72. The Government of Rwanda has responded swiftly to discrimination in defence stuff that characterised the former government by not only integrating members of the former army in the new formed army but also by removing any exclusion in recruitment in the security organs. The present organisation of Rwanda Defence Forces is composed of all groups of the people of Rwanda. In order to ensure availability of resources for effective mainstreaming of gender perspective in Government programmes, Gender Responsive Budgeting has been institutionalized through the Organic Budget Law of 2013. Under this law, all Government budget agencies are required to submit Gender Budget statements with their budget estimates to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, so as to mainstream gender perspective into the analysis of public expenditure and revenue policies. 73. The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning is also responsible for overseeing the mainstreaming of gender into the planning, policy formulation as well as the co-ordination of the GRB process to ensure that development resources are allocated in a gender responsive manner. It works closely with MIGEPROF, GMO and other partners to provide gender budgeting guidelines and indicators to ministries and districts. 74. On the gender aspect, the Government of Rwanda has put in place a strong institutional framework to ensure effective implementation and coordination of the gender equality commitments. These include: The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF) which is the central Government organ mandated to ensure strategic coordination of policy implementation in the area of gender, family and children’s issues; the Gender Monitoring Office (GMO), a Constitutional regulatory body with the mandate to spearhead the Page 28 of 105

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