Fundamental Principles and Home-Grown Solutions

The State of Rwanda commits itself to upholding and ensuring respect for the following fundamental principles: (a) prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, fight against denial and revisionism of genocide as well as eradication of genocide ideology and all its manifestations; (b) eradication of discrimination and divisionism based on ethnicity, region or any other ground, as well as promotion of national unity; (c) equitable power-sharing; (d) building a State governed by the rule of law, a pluralistic democratic Government, equality of all Rwandans and between women and men which is affirmed by women occupying at least 30% of positions in decision-making organs; (e) building a State committed to promoting social welfare and establishing appropriate mechanisms for equal opportunity to social justice; (f) constant quest for solutions through dialogue and consensus.

In order to build the nation, promote national culture and restore dignity, the people of Rwanda, based on their values, initiate mechanisms for homegrown solutions to their problems.

Laws may establish different mechanisms for home-grown solutions.