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Rwanda

A nation of 14.6 million on hills three-quarters farmed, that earned $685 million from visitors in 2025 and registered $2.62 billion of new investment.

Perfect Nations values what Rwanda owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

Rwanda at a glance

14.6mPeopleWorld Bank, 2025
Furthest from reach · Energy91.4%of the electricity a person needs is missingEmber, 2024
30Instruments and investments on recordCapital already committed

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What we do for Rwanda

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Hills to The People.
02CapitalThe laurels30 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.
03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Energy is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Rwanda toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

75.7%Of land in agriculture, 2024
The Hills
Three-quarters of the land is farmed. Irrigation and markets, not more land, carry the next gain.
26.1%Of land under forest, 2024
The Forest
The forest holds the water for the hills below and the parks that visitors come for.
$685MTourism revenue, 2025
The Visitors
1.49 million arrivals in 2025, up 9% on the year before.
$2.62BInvestment registered, 2025
The Hub
Across 799 projects. A state that investors can read is itself an asset.
14.6mCitizens, 2025
The People
Three in ten live in towns and cities; the rest live on the hills they farm.

Every figure, with its source The Sovereign Assets ledger

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

Rwanda borrows on reforms it can show. Next, a clean stove in every home.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Rwanda owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

73.6%Overall public debt as a share of GDP in 2025, which the IMF expects to be the peak; risk of debt distress moderateIMF, 2026
$250MIMF Extended Credit Facility, approved June 2026, 38 monthsIMF, 2026
$450MCommercial financing the World Bank Group guarantee of March 2026 can mobilize: €213 million closed in April and EUR 82 million and JPY 15 billion on 26 August 2026World Bank, 2026
$300MEnergy Sector Results Based Financing Phase II, $200 million from the AfDB and $100 million from AIIB: 200,000 households to the grid and clean cooking for 100,000AfDB, 2026
$300MWorld Bank support to electricity and clean cooking access (ASCENT), approved November 2023World Bank, 2023

Capital already committed

GovernmentClosedDual-currency commercial loan, euro and yen€82M + JPY 15B
Closed 26 August 2026 · EUR 82 million and JPY 15 billion · 15 years, 6 years’ grace · IDA policy-based guarantee as first loss, MIGA cover as second loss
Under the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform, housed at MIGA
A two-tranche commercial loan from Société Générale and Standard Chartered Bank for general budgetary purposes, in line with the World Bank’s Inclusive and Resilient Job Creation operation. World Bank Group cover lets Rwanda borrow for 15 years, which leaves more room in the budget for the seven standards.
Société GénéraleStandard CharteredIDAMIGA
Source
GovernmentClosedCommercial loan under World Bank Group guarantees€213M
Closed April 2026 · 15 years, six years’ grace · IDA policy-based guarantee and MIGA second-loss guarantee cover 95% of debt service
About $243 million (Ministry of Finance)
A commercial loan from Société Générale and Standard Chartered whose debt service is 95% covered by an IDA policy-based guarantee and a MIGA second-loss guarantee. It draws on the World Bank Group guarantee approved in March 2026.
Société GénéraleStandard CharteredIDAMIGA
Source
MultilateralActiveExtended Credit Facility$250M
Approved 8 June 2026 · 38 months
SDR 185.031 million; first review agreed at staff level, 6 October 2026
The first IMF lending arrangement since the Standby Credit Facility. Completion of the first review would release about $35.7 million.
International Monetary Fund
Source
MultilateralApprovedAccess to Finance for Recovery and Resilience, second additional financing$80M
Approved 21 May 2026 · IDA credit · Implemented by the Development Bank of Rwanda
Credit lines, sustainability-linked bonds and partial credit guarantees
Additional IDA financing for working capital and investment credit lines, a sustainability-linked bond programme and partial credit guarantees, channelled through the Development Bank of Rwanda. By December 2025, 9,597 firms had benefited from the project’s credit facilities, which serves the livelihood standard.
World BankDevelopment Bank of Rwanda
Source
MultilateralApprovedCommercialization and De-Risking for Agricultural Transformation, second additional financing$80M
Approved 27 March 2026 · IDA · Closing 28 February 2029
Extends farm finance to 2029
A second top-up to the agricultural transformation project of 2022, which draws private finance into farming and agribusiness. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralApprovedFirst Inclusive and Resilient Job Creation Development Policy Financing$100M
Approved 23 March 2026 · IDA credit of JPY 15.4 billion · Policy-based guarantee of $240 million · First of a series of three
With a $240 million guarantee for up to $450 million of commercial loans
Budget support for reforms in revenue, public-private partnerships and state-owned enterprises, shared broadband infrastructure, Ejo Heza savings, skills and job matching, and farming and aquaculture. Its guarantee helps Rwanda raise up to $450 million of commercial financing on favourable terms.
World BankMIGA
Source
MultilateralApprovedRevenue Improvement and Spending Efficiency Program-for-Results$100M
Approved 21 November 2025 · IDA
National ministries, state-owned companies and all 30 districts
Results-based financing to raise domestic revenue and make public spending more efficient, with national ministries, state-owned companies and all 30 districts as direct beneficiaries. Revenue of its own widens what Rwanda can spend on the seven standards.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralApprovedDisaster Risk Management Development Policy Financing with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option$141M
Approved 30 September 2025 · Funds that can be drawn after a disaster
About 40% of the population lives in high-risk highland areas
Supports reforms in disaster risk information and coordination, the resilience of the built environment and the management of natural resources, with funds Rwanda can draw quickly after a disaster. The floods and landslides of May 2023 left over 18,000 people homeless; the operation protects the shelter and livelihood standards.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralCompletedBoosting Green Finance, Investment and Trade$255M
Approved 20 December 2024 · Three IDA credits, fully disbursed · Closed 20 December 2025
Policy reforms for green finance
Supports reforms that open Rwanda to green investment and trade.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralApprovedPriority Skills for Growth and Youth Empowerment$200M
Approved 9 September 2024 · IDA
Skills and jobs for more than 200,000 youths
Pays on verified results in technical training and youth employment, for more than 200,000 young people.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralActiveHealth Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience$120M
Approved 24 May 2024 · Multiphase programmatic approach · Closing 31 March 2030
Health security
Strengthens the health system against outbreaks.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralCompletedStandby Credit Facility$268.1M
Approved 14 December 2023 · 14 months
Balance-of-payments support
Short-term support approved alongside the PCI and RSF reviews, completed December 2024.
International Monetary Fund
Source
MultilateralActiveAccelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation$300M
Approved 28 November 2023 · Two IDA credits · Closing 31 December 2029
Electricity and clean cooking access
Extends electricity and clean cooking to households. It is aimed at the energy standard, where 9% of Rwandans cook with clean fuels and technology, which sets Rwanda’s Coverage. By 1 December 2025 it had brought electricity to 70,500 people, against a target of 1,880,000 by December 2029.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralUnder implementationCongo Nile Divide forest and landscape restoration (FP217)$39.1M
Approved 25 October 2023 · Grant · Accredited entity: Ministry of Environment · Effective 20 February 2024
250,000 hectares of land
A Green Climate Fund grant to build the resilience of vulnerable communities on the Congo Nile Divide through forest and landscape restoration across 250,000 hectares, with agroforestry on 2,000 hectares. It protects the soil and water behind the food and water standards.
Green Climate FundMinistry of Environment
Source
MultilateralApprovedStunting Prevention and Reduction, Additional Financing$79M
Additional financing, 2023 · IDA credit of $70 million and grants of $9 million
Child nutrition
Works to reduce stunting among young children.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralCompletedPolicy Coordination InstrumentNo lending
Approved 12 December 2022 · Sixth and final review 4 December 2025
A non-financing programme that signals policy to investors
A non-financing IMF instrument that signals the strength of policies to investors and partners. It was completed with its sixth and final review in December 2025.
International Monetary Fund
Source
MultilateralCompletedResilience and Sustainability Facility$321.7M
Approved 12 December 2022 · Final review 13 December 2024
Long-term financing tied to climate reforms
One of the first RSF arrangements in the world, completed in full.
International Monetary Fund
Source
MultilateralActiveSocial Protection Transformation Project$100M
Approved 22 September 2022 · IDA · Closing 31 December 2026
Safety nets
Modernises the cash transfer and public works system for the poorest households.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralApprovedCommercialization and De-Risking for Agricultural Transformation$300M
Approved 15 April 2022 · IDA · Amounts revised since approval; second additional financing of $80 million in March 2026
Finance for farms and agribusiness
Draws private finance into farming and the businesses around it.
World Bank
Source
MultilateralCompletedHousing Finance Project$150M
Approved 29 November 2018 · IDA credit of EUR 129.6 million · Closed 31 October 2025
17,845 housing loans against a target of 6,000
Built the market for long-term, affordable home loans. It financed 17,845 housing loans against a target of 6,000 and closed in October 2025 with an outcome rated Satisfactory.
World Bank
Source
RegionalSignedVolcanoes Community Resilience Project€65M
Financing agreement signed, announced 5 August 2026 · Eight districts
More than 2.3 million people in areas exposed to floods and landslides
European Investment Bank finance for flood risk reduction, watershed restoration, landscape rehabilitation, biodiversity and livelihoods in Gakenke, Burera, Musanze, Nyabihu, Rubavu, Rutsiro, Ngororero and Muhanga. It protects the shelter, water and livelihood standards for more than 2.3 million people.
European Investment Bank
Source
RegionalLaunchedEnergy Sector Results Based Financing Phase II (RBF II)$200M
Launched 15 May 2026 · Implemented through the Rwanda Energy Group · $300 million programme with $100 million from AIIB
200,000 households to the grid and clean cooking for 100,000
An African Development Bank loan that pays on results for 200,000 new household grid connections, 50,000 off-grid connections and clean cooking devices for 100,000 households and 310 public institutions. It is aimed at the energy standard, which sets Rwanda’s Coverage.
African Development Bank
Source
RegionalApprovedMuvumba Multipurpose Water Resources Development Program, additional financing€45.4M
Announced 16 April 2026 · €17.66 million African Development Fund loan and €27.74 million African Development Bank loan · Programme value €176 million
Bank Group contribution now €166.9 million
Additional finance for the Muvumba dam programme, including a climate-resilient irrigation system for 3,073 hectares of farmland. The dam develops water for several uses, including power, farming and water for people, serving the water, food and energy standards.
African Development BankAfrican Development Fund
Source
RegionalApprovedRwanda Energy Results-Based Financing Program$100M
Approved 30 October 2025 · Sovereign · Co-financed with the African Development Bank, the lead co-financier
AIIB’s share of the $300 million programme
An AIIB loan that co-finances the African Development Bank’s results-based programme for grid and off-grid connections and clean cooking. It is aimed at the energy standard, which sets Rwanda’s Coverage.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Source
RegionalSignedKarenge water project and SME credit line$45M
Signed 8 October 2025 · $20 million loan for the Karenge Water Project · $25 million line of credit to the Development Bank of Rwanda
Two agreements with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa
One loan expands the transmission and distribution systems of the Karenge Water Project, supporting the goal of universal clean water and sanitation by 2029; the other lends to small and medium enterprises through the Development Bank of Rwanda. They serve the water and livelihood standards.
BADEADevelopment Bank of Rwanda
Source
BilateralSignedHANGARIBIHE: climate-smart and inclusive agriculture€40M
Signed 4 August 2026 · EUR 36 million budget support and EUR 4 million technical assistance · Five years
Smallholders, cooperatives, women, youth and SMEs
A European Union financing agreement, mostly budget support, for climate-smart and inclusive agriculture. It serves the food and livelihood standards for smallholders, cooperatives, women, youth and small businesses.
European Union
Source
BilateralSignedInclusive social protection grant€18M
Signed 6 October 2025 · Grant · Implemented by the Local Administrative Entities Development Agency
Supports the Vision Umurenge Program
A German grant through KfW to strengthen Rwanda’s inclusive social protection system and its flagship Vision Umurenge Program. It serves the livelihood standard for the poorest households.
KfWFederal Republic of Germany
Source
BilateralSignedDevelopment Policy Loan for the Education SectorJPY 14B
Signed 5 March 2024, Kigali · 0.20% a year · 40 years, including 10 years’ grace
Up to 14,000 million yen
A Japanese loan to improve children’s learning, with stronger teacher training colleges, more classrooms, pre-primary education, school lunches and digital education. It serves the education standard.
JICA
Source
PrivateInvestedBPR Bank Rwanda, local-currency loan$40M
Approved 28 June 2024 · Signed 9 August 2024 · Invested 30 December 2024 · Seven years, in Rwandan francs · Up to $60 million with $20 million mobilized
At least 25% for women-owned SMEs
An IFC loan to Rwanda’s third-largest bank by assets for lending to small and medium enterprises, backed by the IDA20 Private Sector Window local currency facility. It serves the livelihood standard.
IFC
Source
PrivateSignedBank of Kigali, green agriculture value chain loan€50M
Signed 14 March 2024 · On-lending to small and medium enterprises
Agriculture value chains
A European Investment Bank loan to Bank of Kigali for on-lending to small and medium enterprises in agricultural value chains. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
European Investment Bank
Source

The Rwanda Newswire

The Solutions Wire

Jean-Paul MugishaNation Steward of Rwanda · SI ResearcherLast updated 12 November 2026

9 Oct 2026MPs approve Rwf28bn World Bank loan for digital tech adoptionThe New Times
6 Oct 2026IMF staff reach agreement on the first review of the USD 250m credit facilityIMF
11 Sep 2026Rwanda: House Approves Rwf137bn World Bank Loan for Business FinancingThe New Times via allAfrica
26 Aug 2026Rwanda Closes Dual-Currency EUR/JPY Commercial Loan FacilityMinistry of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda
7 Aug 2026Rwanda and EIB sign €65 million deal for volcanoes community resilienceEuropean Investment Bank

Already working in Rwanda.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Rwanda, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

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Food
One Acre Fund (Tubura)
Has operated in Rwanda since 2007 under the local brand Tubura and serves 2.7 million farmers. It distributed 25.6 million tree seedlings in 2024.
One Acre Fund
Water
Kigali Bulk Water (Metito)
Metito designed, built and operates the $61 million Kigali bulk water plant, which supplies the national utility with 40,000 cubic metres of potable water a day and raised the city’s supply by 40 percent.
IFC, 2022
Energy
DelAgua
Has run a clean cookstove programme in Rwanda since 2012, funded by the sale of carbon credits, with over 1.9 million stoves distributed. In November 2025 TotalEnergies agreed to fund 200,000 more within one year.
DelAgua; TotalEnergies, 2025
Education
Kepler
Offers bachelor’s degrees with Southern New Hampshire University in Kigali and at the Kiziba refugee camp. By October 2023, 957 students had earned degrees, including 237 refugees.
Kepler, 2023
Health
Zipline
Delivers blood to hospitals by drone: 28,754 units in Rwanda in 2023. A 2023 study by researchers at the Wharton School, with the Ministry of Health, found that it reduced nationwide in-hospital deaths from postpartum haemorrhage by 51%.
Zipline
Livelihood
BPR Bank Rwanda
Rwanda’s third-largest bank by assets, on-lending a seven-year IFC package of up to $60 million in Rwandan francs to small and medium enterprises, with at least 25 percent for women-owned firms.
IFC, 2024

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect Rwanda, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Rwanda in its own prices.

How Perfect Capita works

8.6

Energy · furthest from reachAbout 86 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000; 9% cook with clean fuels (2024)Ember, 2024

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Rwanda

To be set with Rwanda, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Rwanda, each year.

Food77.4%Lenient measure: 22.6% are undernourished; food insecurity experience is not publishedFAO, 2024
Water61.4%Basic water; safely managed water is not measuredWHO/UNICEF, 2024
Shelter88.1%Outside urban slums; 38.4% of city dwellers live in slums; safe sanitation not measuredUN-Habitat, 2022
Energy8.6About 86 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000; 9% cook with clean fuels (2024)Ember, 2024
Education47.6Lower-secondary completion; reading data not publishedUNESCO, 2024
Health59WHO service coverage indexWHO, 2023
Livelihood61.4%Above US$3.00 a day; 38.6% live below itWorld Bank, 2023

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Rwanda. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect Rwanda

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Solution No. 409 Nov 2026
Standard Tokens for Clean Kitchens
The first pilot of Standard Tokens, designed by Perfect Nations: one token, one clean kitchen.
- 01The challengeAbout 13 million Rwandans, nine in ten, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- 02What Perfect Nations advisesRwanda should be the first nation to pilot Standard Tokens, designed by Perfect Nations: small units of finance that citizens, investors and visitors can buy, each tied to one household’s switch to clean cooking, subject to compliance review. With super intelligence, each token can be linked to a verified kitchen, so every buyer sees the family it reached and Rwanda sees its progress home by home.
~13mRwandans who cook without clean fuel
FromPreeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the Solution Discuss this Solution

The Thousand Hills in Bloom, nation portrait of Rwanda — The Thousand Hills in BloomNation Portrait · Art of Nations

Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsRwanda

Dear Rwanda,

You are a nation of 14.6 million people on a little under 24,000 square kilometres of hills, and three-quarters of that land is farmed.

… You have learned to make a small country legible to the world. Perfect Capita is the next thing to make legible.

“You made a small country legible to investors. Now make a decent life just as certain for every citizen.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the full letter

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect Rwanda ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Rwanda, taken as far toward market as you choose.

For the Government of Rwanda, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

01Identify the assets
02Estimate Perfect Capita
03Co-design the capital architecture
04Launch the instruments

Mandate 013 hours
The Nation Briefing
A private session for the people who decide.
You leave withThe gap, named and sized
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1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
2. 02Coverage of 9 and the Gap, explained.
3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
4. 04The path to market, outlined.
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Mandate 023 days
The Blueprint Lab
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
You leave withThe structure, drawn
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1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in Rwandan prices.
3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
Plan a Blueprint Lab
Mandate 03End to end
The Sovereign Mandate
Led personally by the President and CEO.
You leave withA structure ready for market
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1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
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Sources

World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025 (14,569,341), land area 2024, agriculture and forest 2024, urban share 2025.
Rwanda Development Board, annual report release, 28 April 2026: tourism revenue, arrivals and registered investment.
International Monetary Fund press releases 23/450, 24/469, 25/405, 26/191 and 26/321.
World Bank project pages for each line of Capital already committed, as linked.
Electricity used per person: Ember, Yearly Electricity Data (2026 release), accessed 12 November 2026.

Rwanda

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

The Hills

The Forest

The Visitors

The Hub

The People

Rwanda borrows on reforms it can show. Next, a clean stove in every home.

The Rwanda Newswire

Already working in Rwanda.

One Acre Fund (Tubura)

Kigali Bulk Water (Metito)

DelAgua

Kepler

Zipline

BPR Bank Rwanda

Perfect Rwanda, star by star.

Solutions for Perfect Rwanda

Standard Tokens for Clean Kitchens

Dear Rwanda,

The Perfect Rwanda ReDesign Studio

The Nation Briefing

The Blueprint Lab

The Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Write Perfect Rwanda into being.

The local leaders already building Perfect Rwanda.

Join the community.

Design Perfect Rwanda with us.