This Rwanda Standards Board Strategic Plan, strategically aligned with the National Strategy for Transformation (NST2), provides for standardisation, quality testing, certification, metrology, accreditation, and technical assistance to support industrial development, trade, consumer protection, socio-economic transformation, and sustainable growth. The vision of the Strategic Plan aims at driving Rwanda's socio-economic transformation through world-class quality infrastructure; the mission is to promote Rwanda's socio-economic growth through internationally recognised standardisation, quality testing, certification and metrology services aimed at industrial development, trade enhancement and consumer protection. The Strategic Plan is organised around the following four pillars: 1) institutional capacity and growth, through the enhancement of infrastructure, human capital, digital tools, and funding; 2) technical and operational excellence; 3) customer focus, through the improvement of services, communication and customer satisfaction; 4) national transformation agenda, through the alignment of services with national priorities, such as public health, agro-processing, manufacturing. The Strategic Plan focuses on: national development goals, economic needs, an evolving quality infrastructure, and regional trade integration, industrialisation and export promotion, micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs) empowerment, stakeholder engagement, digital transformation and technological innovation, sustainable development.
The Plan details the following strategic directions: consumer awareness; sustainable development goals; environmental change; promoting climate resilience and risk management across agriculture, mining, transport and infrastructure; shift towards circular economy, waste reduction, and sustainable production standards; ecosystem and natural resources protection, with standards and certification for environmental sustainability; promoting energy transition toward renewable sources and establishing relevant standards concerning green technologies. Furthermore, the Strategic Plan describes targeted interventions based on Sustainable Development Goals: economic and social transformation to end poverty in all its forms; ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture, through the conducting of post-harvest training to improve the handling and storage of perishable, nutritious foods and animal products; ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages; ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education; achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls; ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation services for all; ensuring reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; promoting green industrialisation and energy, sustainable agriculture practices, circular economy and waste management to ensure sustainable production; taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; strengthening integrated water resources management, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture programmes to reduce water pollution and promote conservation of ocean, seas and marine resources for sustainable development; ensuring biodiversity conservation, forest management, combatting land degradation and desertification to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystem.