86. The Ministry of Trade and Industry through its entrepreneurship development initiative has also established three programmes to enhance capacity of women and youth in entrepreneurship and facilitate them acquire financial services especially loans. These are Hanga Umurimo48 (Create a job), Proximity Business Advisory Scheme (PROBAS) and Kuremera49 programmes. In total 23,998 business promoters were trained, among them 46% were women. In addition, 46.1% of projects, which benefited from funding from banks, are by women but only 19.5% of women benefited from start up tool kits. In 2013, under Kuremera Programme, 920 women in Kigali City were facilitated to start small businesses in decent work premises. Although these programmes have played a key role in boosting women’s economic empowerment, it was noticed that men are still predominant beneficiaries of their services. 87. Regarding formal employment, Rwanda has ratified international and regional instruments on eliminating child labour, including the International Labour Convention, the Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. At national level, the Labour Law prohibits employment of children under the age of 16 and is supported by the law determining missions, organizations and power of Rwanda Defense Forces and the police, which prohibit recruitment of children into the armed forces. 88. The National Policy on the Elimination of Child Labour adopted in 2013 aims at “providing an enabling environment for the prevention, protection, and progressive elimination of child labor and ultimately total elimination of child labor.” The policy recognizes that “boys and girls are affected by child labor differently”, and thereby the need for gender concerns to be mainstreamed into policy and programme implementation with special emphasis on the needs of the girl child”. Hanga Umurimo started in 2011 with a purpose of nurturing an entrepreneurial culture among Rwandans and encouraging off farm job creation and advancement of entrepreneurship mindset and business innovations countrywide 49Kuremera programme started in 2012 and is built on Rwanda’s traditional practice of providing a startup capital to somebody without any return. This programme does the same for unskilled and semi skilled poor women and youth countrywide but with a return in order to promote continuity 48 Page 92 of 105