The mission of the transport sector is to strengthen the institutional framework and capacity of transport institutions and stakeholders in the planning and management of the sector.

The objectives are to:

• Reduce and control transport costs

• Assure the quality and durability of the rural, urban and international transport network

• Improve safety for goods and passengers on the principle modes of transport

• Increase mobility of the population in order to improve access to essential services, education, and employment

• Establish a system to ensure sustainable financing of road maintenance

• Facilitate access to cost effective transport services

In order to achieve these objectives, MININFRA has the following key sector programmes:

1. Development of infrastructure for opening up the country and easing land-locked status

• Improvements to existing Kigali International Airport - about to enter the 60% design phase         

• New Bugesera Airport – entering into 90% design stage

• Isaka – Dry Port Feasibility Study - completed

• Multinational Railway (Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Gitega-Musongati) - detailed feasibility studies ongoing (DBI final report completed, BNSF report due September 2009)

• Feasibility study of the navigability of Akagera River - underway

• Feasibility study of transportation on Lake Kivu - ongoing

• One Stop Border Posts - Nemba/Gasenyi opened April 2009, studies into further OSBPs underway

2. Development and Maintenance of Road Transport Infrastructure

• Paved roads rehabilitation and construction

• Paved road network extension (planned new constructions)

• Maintenance of gravel roads

3. Institutional and Capacity issues

• Transport Master Plan - procurement process ongoing

• MSc in Transport Studies - Procurement process ongoing