Impact of Performance Contract ”Imihigo” on Beneficiaries’ Livelihoods

Rwanda has prepared significant evolution towards achieving the objective of transform our country to middle income country as reflected in the Vision 2020. This is evident in the significant Socio economic transformation observed in the previous decade during EDPRS II. The performance contract (Imihigo) has established to be a planning and monitoring and evaluation tools to not only bring the EDPRS targets but also to continue the momentum towards delivering the global and national development goals. Each year together central and local government sign Performance Contracts with His Excellence the President Paul Kagame. and ending of year, a performance evaluation is also conducted to assess the performance achieved against Imihigo targets and identify gaps to inform potential improvements in Imihigo planning In this way, Muhanga District is in the competition of Performance contract for achieving the targets from National policy such as Vision 2020, EDPRS II, and also District targets are allied to District development priorities; planned outputs are achieved, the outputs have the potential for social and economic transformation; the solutions are innovative towards the outcomes.