programmes are also provided to stimulate girls/women to break the “gender stereotypes” and adventure in traditionally male-dominated fields including ICT sector. Campaigns are ongoing to encourage girls to be ICT entrepreneurs. Curriculum and training material are scrutinized to eliminate discriminative tendencies and special effort is made to cater for the disadvantaged and marginalized groups. 75. The Rwanda Workforce Development Authority (WDA) established in 2008 has placed emphasis on the TVET sector as a strategy to create a critical mass of skills to meet Rwanda’s vision of being a knowledgebased economy. Special efforts are deployed to sensitize girls and women to extend their careers in technical fields such as ICT so as to improve their employment opportunities. 76. The Government of Rwanda continues to strive to make all Rwandans literate, in order to be competitive in local and international markets and to achieve Rwanda’s aspiration of becoming a knowledge-based economy and a middle-income country by 2020. According to the 2012 Census about 65 % of the female population aged 15 and above are able to read and write in at least one language compared to 72 % of males. 77. Some 5181 literacy centers have been set up across the country, with the target of having at least four centers in each administrative Cell, by 201745. Bringing these centers closer to the community enables women to factor the unpaid care work time within the literacy programme. Article 13: Economic and Social Welfare Rights 78. Women represent 50.9% of the Rwandan population. The Government of Rwanda realizes that no sustainable development can be achieved without the participation of a large portion of its population and has put in place legal and policy reforms geared at reducing discrimination against women and improving their economic rights and independence at all levels. Rwanda has also ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and CEDAW and other regional 45 A cell is the lowest administrative entity comprised of between 8 to 10 villages Page 89 of 105