Ministry of Environment (formerly Ministry of Natural Resources of Rwanda)

MOE_Rwanda

  • Type Direct (National)
  • Date of accreditation 08 Jul 2015

The Ministry of National Resources of Rwanda (MINIRENA) is a national entity, specifically a public sector ministry, which is responsible for environment, climate change and natural resources management at the local and national levels. MINIRENA in partnership with national stakeholders, has a strategy in place to support national development goals, particularly in green growth, climate resilience, and the sustainable management and consumption of natural resources. The goal of MINIRENA is to provide solutions to the environmental and resource challenges faced, including the imbalance between population and natural resources that has serious impacts on sectors such as agriculture, energy, infrastructure, land, water resources and forestry, in achieving national long-term sustainable development. Currently, MINIRENA has a climate change project portfolio of approximately US$ 120 million, which includes activities such as reducing vulnerability to extreme climate and weather events through the implementation of relevant priority adaptation measures. Accreditation to the GCF is an opportunity for MINIRENA to continue to drive sustainable development and green growth as envisaged in its national strategies and to scale up its climate change projects and programmes. It is also a platform for it to support other developing countries in developing and implementing their national climate change strategies.

Accreditation timeline

Accreditation term 1

01 Aug 2017 - 31 Jul 2022

Accreditation date

08 Jul 2015

AMA execution date

23 Jun 2016

AMA effectiveness

01 Aug 2017

Term end date

31 Jul 2022

Accreditation term 2

26 Jan 2023 - 25 Jan 2028

Re-accreditation date

19 Oct 2022

AMA execution date

23 Nov 2022

AMA effectiveness

26 Jan 2023

Term end date

25 Jan 2028

Entity details

  • Size
    • Micro
    • Small
    • Medium
    • Large
  • Environmental and social risk category
    • Category C
    • Category B
    • Category A
    • Intermediation 3
    • Intermediation 2
    • Intermediation 1
  • Fiduciary standards
    • Basic
    • Project management
    • Grant award
    • On-lending/blending:
    • Loan
    • Equity
    • Guarantee
    • Blending

Projects

FP217
Cross-cutting

Rwanda

Building Resilience of Vulnerable Communities to Climate Variability in Rwanda’s Congo Nile Divide through Forest and Landscape Restoration

FP073
Cross-cutting

Rwanda

Strengthening Climate Resilience of Rural Communities in Northern Rwanda

Documents

News + Stories

Forests: A cause of climate concern, and hope

15 Aug 2018 / You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Forests: A cause of climate concern, and hope

14 Aug 2018 / You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

GCF lays climate finance groundwork in Africa and the Pacific

27 Jul 2017 / GCF’s latest expansion of assistance to countries preparing to implement climate finance is targeting Africa and the Pacific.

Workshop: GCF supporting direct access entities

03 Sep 2015 / The Green Climate Fund is convening its national and regional accredited entities for four days of training on the Fund’s environmental and social safeguards (ESS) and gender policy at GCF headquarters in Songdo.

Contacts

Mr. Patrick Karera
Primary

Permanent Secretary
Phone +250 789 414 092
pkarera@environment.gov.rw
Mr. William Mugabo
Secondary

Green Economy Specialist
Phone +250 788 839 869
wmugabo@environment.gov.rw