The national cultural heritage policy

The national cultural heritage policy provides broad pillars and guiding principles to preserve the core values of our culture and defines strategies to ensure that culture plays its historical role of informing the socio-economic transformation of rwanda. the policy defines the stakeholders as culture practitioners of all walks of life, as well as all partners involved in day to day activities to preserve and promote culture. it gives the framework to fit in the strategies, initiatives and activities undertaken by various public and private stakeholders. the logical framework of the policy is slated on a 5-year period of implementation. the mainstream of the policy focuses on both the economic and social dimensions of cultural production: research and promotion of the history of rwandadevelopment of an organizational arrangement to disseminate and promote culture values preservation and promotion of kinyarwanda languagedevelopment and promotion of the creative arts sub sector to increase their economic benefitspromotion of cultural tourism in the country as a contributor to the economy of the countrydevelopment of an institutional and operational framework to promote a reading culture and effective management of archives develop strategies to strengthen the preservation of genocide memory, fight genocide ideology and negation of genocide against tutsi