Rwanda Labour Market Information System

Connecting workforce capability
with labour market opportunities

Rwanda LMIS collects, analyzes, and disseminates labour market information — including employment trends, job vacancies, skills requirements, and wages — to empower employers, educators, policymakers, and citizens to make informed decisions.

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What is Rwanda LMIS?

Understanding the system and its role in Rwanda's economy

Rwanda Labour Market Information System (LMIS) collects, analyzes, and disseminates information related to the labour market, including employment trends, job vacancies, skills requirements, and wages.

Rwanda LMIS provides insights into labour market trends, skills gaps, and emerging opportunities, enabling employers, educators, and policymakers to design training and education programs that build the skills needed to support economic growth and competitiveness. By providing information on career pathways and opportunities, the LMIS helps individuals make informed decisions about education and training and guides them towards high-quality jobs and career growth.

"Rwanda LMIS provides accurate, objective, relevant, timely, and accessible labour market information — an indispensable basis for employment and labour policies in Rwanda."

Rwanda LMIS provides accurate information on labour market trends on supply and demand that can inform policymakers to allocate training and education resources more effectively, ensuring that resources are directed towards the skills and occupations that are in greatest demand in the labour market.

Three Pillars of LMIS

Core areas of impact for Rwanda's labour market

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Labour Market Insights

Real-time employment trends, sector performance, and wage data to guide economic planning and investment decisions.

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Skills & Education

Identifying skills gaps and aligning education programs with actual labour market demand across all 21 economic sectors.

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Policy Enablement

Empowering government officials, development partners, and employers with evidence-based data for informed policy design.

Strategic Goals of the LMIS

The overarching goal is to provide up-to-date, reliable, and demand-driven labour market information through the following strategic interventions

01 Deliver accessible, user-centered labour market information
Deliver Labour market information in ways that are compatible with the target groups' career and labour market information needs and their abilities to access various delivery methods.
02 Improve discoverability and search for LMI users
Allow LMIS users to take advantage of available LMI through better marketing, search engines, and user-friendly websites that make data easy to find, understand, and use.
03 Support career decision-making and employment guidance
Ensure LMIS provides information pertinent to users in order to facilitate career decision making, employment search, LMI trend analysis, and education and training program selection.
04 Provide timely and reliable employer and employee information
Provide timely and reliable information on labour market issues as they pertain to both employers and employees — including hiring trends, wage levels, and workforce availability by sector and district.
05 Document occupations, skills, and the changing nature of work
Provide information on occupations, available skills, economic sectors, and the changing nature of the world of work — including how technology and globalization are transforming the Rwandan labour market.
06 Provide reliable infrastructure for diverse user needs
Provide up-to-date, reliable, and appropriate digital infrastructure to service a wide variety of users with diverse needs — from national policymakers to district planners to individual job seekers.
07 Track graduate labour market outcomes
Ensure access to reliable information on the labour market outcomes of graduates from education programs at all levels — HLI, TVET, and secondary — to enable evidence-based curriculum reform.
08 Support evidence-based government policy and decision-making
Support Government officials and other stakeholders to make informed decisions about major policy changes, program design and operations, and funding decisions at national and local levels.
09 Empower individuals with career planning tools
Support individuals to make better decisions for both short- and longer-term labour market transitions — helping citizens plan, manage, and grow their careers with confidence using real data.
10 Ensure sustainability through stakeholder partnerships
Ensure the sustainability of LMIS through a resource mobilization strategy and sustainable ownership with different stakeholders — NISR, RTB, RDB, private sector, and development partners.
11 Ensure availability of skilled LMIS staff
Ensure the availability of staff with necessary skills and competences to fulfill the career and labour market information function in order to assist clients with their information needs.

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