and boys. This law was crucial for the protection of the rights of the large number of orphans, widows and child-heads of households, in the aftermath of genocide. According to the study conducted on the impact assessment of the law on matrimornial regimes40, it was noted that ownership of property by women increased from 2.1% to 60.9%. Also, the same study revealed that 82.5% of the judges consulted from both the primary and intermediary courts noted the increase in number of cases related to the law on Matrimonial Regimes, Liberalities and Successions.41 18. Gender equality and the empowerment of women has been a central pillar in Rwanda’s development vision and a central cross-cutting issue in strategic development instruments, including Vision 2020, the first PRSP, the government 7-year programmes ( 2003-2010 and 2010-2017) and EDPRS I and II (2008-2013 and 2013-2018). The Long-term Investment Framework recognizes gender equality as a critical dimension to be mainstreamed into all investment programmes. Key sectors, including gender, security, education, health and agriculture have developed gender policies and strategies are implementing them. 19. In order to ensure availability of resources for effective mainstreaming of gender perspective in Government programmes, Gender Responsive Budgeting has been institutionalized since the Organic Budget Law of 2013. Under this Law, all Government budget agencies are required to submit Gender Budget statements with their budgets to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, so as to mainstream gender perspective into the analysis of public expenditure and revenue policies. 20. 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 40 Gender Impact Assessment of Law no 22/99 of 12/11/1999 August 2011 Gender impact assessment of the law n° 22/99 of 12/11/1999 to supplement Book One of the civil code and to institute part five regarding Matrimonial Regimes, Liberalities and Successions, page 75. 41 Page 73 of 105