The ultimate purpose of the Credit Administration department (CAD) is to ensure the growth of the earning portfolio and to maintain its good quality as such allowing generating sufficient and adequate interest income. This will be achieved through, the following initiatives: • Adequate facility documentation and underwriting processes • Robust collection and workout processes • [...]
As a Development Financing Institution, the Bank is expected to report on the impacts of its interventions, particularly on development, environment and poverty reduction. The overall objective of the Unit is to ensure the Bank meets the stakeholders’ development needs in terms of socio-economic and environmental impact. The monitoring is a continuous function aimed at [...]
The Marketing and communications unit has the responsibilty of planning, preparing and implementing communications and PR strategies with the aim of building a strong brand reputation for the bank and therein, drive its vision.
The project design and incubation unit has a responsibility for leading the project design function of the division, ensuring that the design offers a pipeline of viable projects in priority sectors. The unit is also responsible for setting the priorities for the Incubation Centre, providing opportunties for start ups in BRD’s priority sectors to succeed. [...]
The Funds Mobilization Unit will be responsible for availing for the Bank resources to finances identified initiatives. The unit is also responsible for reporting to existing partners (lenders) about the performance of projects refinanced on lines of credit got from them and ensure timely repayments. The resources to be availed must respond to three (3) [...]
The Economic Research unit is responsible for providing targeted economic analysis of the Rwanda economy and priority development sectors so as to enhance BRD’s knowledge and, thereby, enable better informed strategies for resource mobilisation, lending decisions, quality impact assessments, as well as providing the Government of Rwanda with operational and policy advice. The Unit has [...]
The Bank will play an important role in increasing access and improving quality of both basic and tertiary education. This will be achieved through investments in Education projects, Education savings program and efficient management of student loan and bursary schemes. In October 2015, the Government of Rwanda gave the mandate of management of students’ loans and [...]
Increasing and diversifying exports is key to Rwanda’s economic transformation and a focus point of the new BRD strategic plan. As the Second Generation of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS II) indicates that export growth targets should grow by 28% so the management of BRD created an Export department that is going to [...]
Access to reliable and affordable energy remains a considerable challenge in Rwanda. For Rwanda’s private sector to be competitive, the energy issue must be addressed as it is a crosscutting driver of economic growth. In order to fuel its growth, Rwanda’s target is to substantially increase its energy supply from its current level to 563 [...]
Under the new Strategic plan of BRD, The management of the Bank decided to create a department that will cater for strategic projects that don’t fall under priority sectors of the Bank. This Department will primarily focus on financing projects that enhance rapid development of infrastructure as well as other strategic projects that will promote [...]
