Rwanda's National Budget Commentary 2025/26

Rwanda’s 2025/26 budget marks a critical point for the nation and for anyone engaged in business. The Government has set out an ambitious growth agenda, but it recognises that lasting success depends on strong collaboration with private-sector partners. This year’s budget explicitly calls on business owners, investors, and innovators to participate in building Rwanda’s future.

This guide is designed to translate budget priorities into clear, actionable insight. It identifies the most promising areas for private-sector involvement, outlines how businesses can engage, and clarifies what public officials hope to see from prospective partners. Whether you work in financial services, manage a manufacturing enterprise, advise clients as a consultant, or operate in tourism, healthcare, agribusiness, or technology, the analysis that follows will help you position your organisation to contribute to—and benefit from—Rwanda’s next phase of growth.

Crucially, under the second National Strategy for Transformation (NST2), the Government intends not merely to deliver projects itself but to procure close to half of all planned outputs from private providers. Many initiatives and services remain unallocated, creating an exceptional opening for companies and entrepreneurs to step forward, demonstrate measurable results, and play a defining role in the country’s ongoing transformation.