it introduced the national strategy on climate change and low carbon development in to mainstream climate resilience and lowcarbon development into key sectors its longterm strategy vision aims to transform rwanda into a developed country with a strong service sector low unemployment and low poverty rates this strategy also envisages that agriculture and industry will have a minimal negative impact on the environment operating sustainably and enabling rwanda to be selfsufficient in basic necessities republic of rwanda it attracts and streamlines climate finance with the national strategy and leverages private investment for lowcarbon initiatives putting fonerwa into operation has been a strategic move to facilitate access to international climate finance especially faststart finance for adaptation under the national strategy for climate change and low carbon development there is a programme of action focusing on the low carbon energy mix powering the national grid