The Mo Ibrahim foundation that assesses African governance has ranked Rwanda 25th country among 53 assessed African nations.
Rwanda which scored 52 points emerged 4th country in this region of Great lakes as Tanzania scoops the first position but 13th country in the overall Ibrahim index released this week.
Tanzania which scored 58, is followed by Uganda with 55 points and Kenya with 53 points putting them on 20th and 23rd positions respectively.
Mauritius has been ranked number one in the Index for the past five years and the same countries in five top positions have consistently performed highly in all major indicators of safety and rule of law, Participation and Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development.
The top five countries included Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana, Seychelles and South Africa in their descending order.
Ibrahim index also indicated that Somalia is the last country that is weighed with instabilities in many sectors with 8 points followed by Chad on 52nd position scoring 31 points and then Zimbabwe which managed to score 31 points while placed on 51st position.
Others include DR Congo on 50th, Central African Republic on 49th, Sudan 48, Eritrea 47 and Cote d’Ivoire on 46th positions.
Two countries Liberia and Sierra Leone have shown the most striking statistical significant improvements over the past five years emerging from lengthy civil conflicts.
Rwanda’s major success is in Gender sub-category that falls in Participation and Human Rights category where Rwanda was on fourth position scoring 74 points.
The index also indicated that in sustainable economic opportunities pushed Rwanda to the 13th position as another major score for her success.
Rwanda is the 8th country with 65 points in public management, the 7th with 69 in business environment, 6th with 70 points in Rural sector development.
Others include human development category emerging 17th and scoring highly in its sub-category like becoming 10th with 66 points in welfare.
Having performed relatively better in the overall mo Ibrahim index, Rwanda’s performance in national security as a sub-category of safety and rule of law main category was poor.
Rwanda is listed on the 30th position in safety and rule of law category but ranked 49th country in the sub-category of national security hence ranked among the last five countries.
It is followed by DR Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic and then the last country being Somalia as expected.
Established in 2007, the Ibrahim Index is said to be the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data that provides an annual assessment of governance performance in every African country.
According to the report the Ibrahim Index of African Governance is a composite index, constructed by combining underlying indicators in a standardized way to provide a statistical measure of governance performance in all African countries.
It compiles 86 indicators grouped into 14 sub-categories; the four scope including Safety and Rule of Law, Participation and Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity, and Human Development to measure the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens.
The data used in the 2011 Ibrahim Index contains data from 2000 to 2010come and collected from 23 separate institutions, made up of over 40,000 raw data points.
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