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Introduction
To ensure coordinated planning for ICT needs/Projects across public institutions, all Budget Agencies at Central and Local Gov’t level have to fill and submit the ICT Needs planning Template with details of any ICT related activities or projects including deve...
Purpose
The purpose of these guidelines is to provide a framework that governs the coordination for ICT needs planning /Spend control across public institutions. These guidelines will help you set out what you will need to include to support your submission and will ...
Scope
These guidelines are expected to be followed by all public institutions including institutions at central and local government as well as all their affiliated agencies and parastatals (Districts and District Hospitals) regardless of the source of budget either...
Elements to consider when Developing ICT solutions
Institutions and sectors should first identify gaps that need to be solved with the help of ICT solutions based on the latest technologies available. Develop collaboration and Partnership with National and international centers of excellence that do researc...
ICT Needs Planning Process
At the beginning of August of every Financial Year, institutional Planners in collaboration with digitalization office leaders will share the updated ICT Planning template and Spend Control guidance to the user departments to collect ICT wish list solutions,...
Engagement with RISA and other stakeholders
During the ICT Needs planning process, institutions are advised to involve RISA Spend control team, other Institutions within the same sector and Development Partners at an early stage to avoid any duplication of ICT initiatives to ensure proper planning align...
Access to Spend Control guidelines and ICT Needs Planning Template (links to website/portal)
Spend Control guidelines and ICT Planning template can be accessible through different platforms as follows: RISA Website Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning website as an Annex in the First Planning and Budgeting Call Circular (PBCC1).
How to submit ICT plans
The properly filled in ICT Planning templates will be submitted to RISA through this link. To collect early stage inputs from RISA Spend Control team and after incorporating feedback, the final planning template will be submitted to government enterprise repo...
Documents you need to have when submitting your ICT needs planning template
Depending on the nature of the ICT Project, the institution is required to submit the supporting documents along with the completed planning templates. Therefore, RISA would expect to see the following documents as listed below: If New projects valued below o...
ICT Spend Control Governance
To improve ICT Needs planning, monitor the implementation of the funded ICT Projects as well as measuring benefits/impact, spend control teams have been established at different levels as follows: Ministry Level: CDO/Business Analyst, Sector strategic planni...
ICT Spend Control Calendar
Due to the fact that the current ICT needs planning period is not enough, it has been found important to develop an ICT Spend control calendar that can allow early planning and be able to comply with MINECOFIN calendar. This calendar sets out key dates from Au...
Implementation of ICT Spend Control
Each institution should establish an implementation plan customized to its affiliated institutions natures and mandates ensuring effective implementation of the new spend control guidelines based on the user research findings, sector pain points, national ICT ...
Enforcement of spend control guidelines
Chief digitalization offices in collaboration with RISA are required to adopt and enforce implementation of these spend control guidelines in all institutions under their mandate. Ministry or institutions/Agencies which do not follow these guidelines their su...
Introduction
The Government of Rwanda under the leadership of Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) is documenting end-to-end Enterprise Architecture (EA) models for all public entities. This initiative is being undertaken with the goal of presenting a common view of...
Risa Role
The role of the RISA EA team is to provide guidance to the government entities on this initiative (Refer to Government of Rwanda Enterprise Architecture Governance.docx). In this regard, therefore, the RISA EA team defines the Enterprise Architecture framework...
Enterprise Architecture within Government of Rwanda
Enterprise architecture is not widely applied within the government of Rwanda. The government has, however, recognised the need to not only introduce the practice across all entities, but also ensure its application with the end goal of bringing alignment and ...
Enterprise Architecture Standards
The standards that apply for enterprise architecture apply for different areas. These include: Naming convention – there needs to be an agreed upon naming convention of artefacts to facilitate re-use of objects. Tools for developing deliverables – to ensur...
Introduction
The Government of Rwanda under the leadership of RISA has undertaken to develop Enterprise Architecture Practice with the goal of establishing unified IT standards and practices across all public entities. The rationale behind this is the need for seamless and...
Background
Management of an IT function is a complex undertaking. This is largely because IT encompasses a number of closely linked subdisciplines that need to be maintained in seamless alignment if the combined service offering is to deliver value to the target audience...
EA Governance Implementation
The purpose of the EAG Framework is to provide policy guidance and advice and assistance in the definition, design, and implementation of Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline and practice throughout the organization. In addition, it serves as the core g...