The rehabilitation and development of new infrastructures in Rwanda provides an opportunity for the development, training and employment of youths. It is a fact that economic growth and development cannot be achieved without the availability of appropriate economic and social infrastructures and the need to improve the quality of infrastructure services is therefore the cornerstone for future growth and the achievement of Vision 2050.

In general, infrastructure is defined as electricity, gas, telecoms, transport and water supply, sanitation and sewerage. Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure and its affiliated agencies recently announced that it will be spending an equivalent of USD630 million in the next fiscal year on various infrastructure projects. These include roadside stations, ports at Lake Kivu, roads, a water treatment plant, water supply systems, energy and connectivity. These projects present significant opportunities in the various infrastructure supply chains for youth led businesses.

It is desirable that any direct investments in infrastructure must lead to the creation of new production facilities that stimulate economic activity and growth, improve the ease of doing business, reduce the overall cost of doing business especially trade and transaction costs thereby improve competitiveness and provide new employment opportunities directly and indirectly. This can only happen when we have the optimal infrastructure mix. Added to this, infrastructure development must be in tandem with an industrialisation policy in order to maximise synergies therefrom.

The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) "Rwanda country strategy paper 2022-2026” also makes some insightful observations with regard to infrastructure development challenges and opportunities going forward. In this report, the AfDB has identified priority strategic areas for Rwanda which it will be actively supporting. Priority area 1 is the "Strengthening Physical Infrastructure to Enhance the Productive Resources and Reduce the Cost of Doing Business”. These include;