Emulating Rwanda’s best practices for regional development

Lawmakers within the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) have called on their regional counterparts to emulate some of Rwanda’s best home-grown practices. This indeed is not only good news to hard-working Rwandans, but also a vote of confidence in the never tiring national leadership. The best practices mentioned by the EAC legislators include; the monthly community cleaning service ‘Umuganda’, the semi traditional courts ‘Gacaca’ and the National Dialogue conferences. Umuganda has gained prominence in Rwanda in that it attracts the entire country’s citizenry, right from the First Family, to the person down in the village. It is the traditional last Saturday of each month that Rwandans take a break from work, to clean their communities. The National Dialogue model was proposed for adoption by the EAC Council of Ministers, as a way of deepening and fostering debate within the region.