INVESTMENT & REVENUE GENERATION

The Investment & Revenue Generation Team has the following main responsibilities:

• Increase CoK revenues, tax and fee collections and recovery (taxes, penalties, fees) and resources mobilization;
• Ensure the implementation of revenue generation and collection policies, programs in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory framework;
•  Ensure that collection of fiscal and non-fiscal revenues is carried out according to established regulations;

• Develop revenue generation and mobilization models and strategies for the City of Kigali;

• Advise CoK on urban economic development programs/projects feasibility;

• Develop models to frame and analyse the City urban economies and urban development financing approaches, and proposes required policies and strategies;

• Develop models and tools, and prepare case studies to support the design and implementation of urban economy and financing projects in the City of Kigali;

• Monitor trends and emerging issues, design and conduct studies on urban economics performance of the City of Kigali;

• Promote and facilitate investment in the City of Kigali;

• Promote and facilitate businesses, feed business groups with all information required for business growth in Kigali City;

• Feed investors all information required for investment growth within Kigali City;

• Facilitate investors and work closely with all GoR institutions for investment facilitation and promotion;

• Coordinate all information channelling related to business and investment opportunities and reach out to national and international investors;

• Develop and implement capacity building programs aimed at enhancing small and medium entrepreneurs’ knowledge, skills and attitudes vis-à-vis investment and capital mobilization;

• Enhance good partnerships and engagement framework between the City of Kigali and Private Sector Federation in the implementation of development plans in the City of Kigali;

• Mobilize key players into cooperatives and Collective Investment Groups;

• Coordinate all stakeholders running MSMEs growth support programs;

• Provide entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy for cooperatives, business operators, etc.);

• Promote Urban agriculture in the City of Kigali;

• Develop and implement actionable strategies or plans meant to monitor the localized implementation of national policies/programs on agriculture across the City of Kigali and implement the decisions by City of Kigali Council in this regard (Animal husbandly, urban forest, agribusiness, marshland development etc.);

• Promote tourism in the City of Kigali

• Strengthening Rwandan cultural heritage tourism offerings and increasing awareness on the City of Kigali cultural heritage tourism destinations;

• Work with the agency in charge of tourism in Rwanda other stakeholders to identify, conceptualize and develop tourism products and destinations in the City of Kigali;

• Build and maintain a database of economic development indicators and all information related to business & investment information/data; and resource generation, mobilization and collection in the City of Kigali;