ABOUT R-LMIS
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 information on labour market trends on supply and demand that can inform policymakers to allocate training and education resources more effectively, and thus ensuring that resources are directed towards the skills and occupations that are in greatest demand in the labour market.
We match workforce capability with labour market opportunities.
The Rwandan Labor market information system (LMIS) provides an indispensable basis for employment, and labor policies in Rwanda. It informs the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies that are better focused and targeted. Accurate, Objective, Relevant, Timely, and Accessible labor market information is critical for 1:
- Building a skilled workforce that spurs business competitiveness and economic growth.
- Strengthening career pathways and guiding skills attainment for good jobs, economic opportunity, and career growth.
- Understanding the rapidly changing nature of work and how it impacts the workforce and economy
- Spending workforce training and education resources effectively.
Goals of the LMIS
The overarching goal of LMIS to provide up-to-date, reliable and demand driven labour market information will be achieved through the following strategic interventions:.
- 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.
- To allow LMIS users to take advantage of available LMI through better marketing, search engines and user friendly websites.
- Ensure LMIS website has information pertinent to users in order to facilitate career decision making, employment, LMI trends, education and training programs.
- To provide timely and reliable information on labour market issues as they pertain to both employers and employees.
- Provide information on occupations, available skills, economic sectors, and the changing nature of the world of work and current labour market trends.
- Provide up-to-date, reliable and appropriate infrastructure to service a wide variety of users with diverse needs.
- To ensure access on reliable information on the labour market outcomes of graduates from education programs at all levels.
- Support Government officials and other stakeholders to make informed decisions about major policy changes, program design and operations, and funding decisions at the national and local levels.
- Support Individuals to make better decisions for both short- and longer-term labour market transitions, planning, manage their career planning and development and informed investment decisions.
- Support LMS stakeholders to achieve greater coherence with regard to data collection, analysis, management, dissemination and use of Labour Market Information relevant to current employment and skills development policies. Ensure the sustained production of relevant, timely labour statistics and analytical tools and capacities to allow availability of meaningful labour market information.
- Ensure the sustainability of LMIS through the development of LMIS resource mobilization strategy and a sustainable ownership and partnership of different stakeholders in production, dissemination and use of labour market information.
- 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.