ASSOCIATION DES ENTREPRENEURS DU BATIMENT ET

TRAVAUX PUBLICS

(A.E.B.T.P.)
B.P. 319 Kigali

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PROJECT PROPOSAL DOCUMENT

FOR

CAPACITY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT

FOR CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IN
RWANDA

PREPARED BY
AEBTP
FOR
GRANT REQUEST

Project Summary
Name of Project

Name of implementing
Organization

Capacity empowerment
project for construction
sector in Rwanda
AEBTP

Contact Address

B.P. 319 Kigali Tel

mob:
0788303276 / 0788533335
email:
aebtprwanda@gmail.com

Contact Person
Position

NSENGUMUREMYI Alexis
President of AEBTP

Type of Project

Capacity building

Duration of Project

Two years

Amount of Fund requested

RWF339,300,000

Table of contents
Project Summary.................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents .................................................................................................................... 3
Background and problems analysis ....................................................................................... 4
Preamble ................................................................................................................................ 4
Problem statement .................................................................................................................. 4
Construction Sector challenges .............................................................................................. 6
Existing solutions to the above challenges ............................................................................ 7
Objectives of this project ....................................................................................................... 8
Project Beneficiaries .............................................................................................................. 8
Project implementation strategy ............................................................................................ 9
Project Monitoring and Evaluation ...................................................................................... 10
Project feasibility and sustainability .................................................................................... 10
Project Budget ...................................................................................................................... 12
List of targeted beneficiaries ................................................................................................ 13

Background and problems analysis

Preamble
The Rwanda Association of Building and Public Works Contractors; in French Association
des Entrepreneurs du Btiment et Travaux Pratiques (AEBTP), established in November
1998, is regulated by law N 51/2001 of 30/12/2001. It brings together all building and
public works contractors in Rwanda with the aim of promoting their respective activities to
substantially contribute to economic development of Rwanda. Since its inception, the
association has advocated and promoted the interests of its members; improved conditions
under which their profession is exercised; provided training and information; encouraged
collaboration and partnerships as well as harmonizing professional relations for its
members.
AEBTP is composed by over 330 members; it is under the chamber of Industry in the
Private Sector Federation (PSF).
AEBTP has the Vision to maintain standards, ethics and high level of professional
competence in the construction field and with a mission to advance, promote and develop
contractors by providing all the expertise necessary for the socio-economic needs of
mankind.
Problem statement
The construction industry is a sector of the economy that transforms various resources into
constructed physical economic and social infrastructure necessary for socio-economic
development. It embraces the process by which the said physical infrastructure are planned,
designed, procured, constructed or produced, altered, repaired, maintained, and
demolished.
The constructed infrastructure include: Buildings, Transportation systems and facilities
which are airports, harbors, highways, subways, bridges, railroads, transit systems,
pipelines and transmission and power lines. Structures for fluid containment, control and
distribution such as water treatment and distribution, sewage collection and treatment
distribution systems, sedimentation lagoons, dams, irrigation and canal systems
underground structures, such as tunnels and mines.

The industry comprises of organizations and persons who include companies, firms and
individuals working as real estate developers, consultants, main contractors and subcontractors, material and component producers, plant and equipment suppliers, builders
and merchants. The industry has a very close relationship with clients and financiers.
In Rwanda Despite the boom in the construction sector that has partly led to the recent high
growth rates in the real economy; the sector is still challenged with low levels of
professionals, leading to lack of dynamism. The challenge ranges from contractors,
consultants and supervisor engineers.
The Rwandan construction industry, which many expect to go through a high growth
phase, owing to an increased number of construction projects, and a greater focus on
housing projects and large-scale infrastructure projects, is facing severe problems regarding
construction project delivery, these problems stem from a lack of capacity, skills shortage and
quality standards.
According to Rwanda skills survey (2012); construction sector report; construction sector
is very risky because many actors involved, lack necessary knowledge and skills,
experience, and guidance to undertake whatever it takes correctly and professionally. This
is evidenced by several projects that are neither completed on budget nor in time plus
reports that reveal the skills gap in the construction sector.
Generally, companies are required to effectively carry out business transactions in an
organized way to achieve the purpose of execution of operational goals. Apart from
deciding the nature and scale of operations, process details, etc., the owners have to select
the form of organization that will primarily meet goals for initiating the business
operations, achieving business objectives, and for meeting the needs of growth for
sustainability.
For any construction company to succeed it must continuously focus and ensure to have a
worthy market, effective and efficient leadership, skilled and hence productive staff,
modern equipment and facilities, effective systems and controls, customer satisfaction,
innovations and creativity with adaptability.

Companies in Rwanda are instead characterized by poor growths due to insufficient

profitability and strengths for sustainability.
Therefore, capacity building for construction contractors and practitioners in Rwanda is
highly needed and appreciated.
Construction Sector challenges
An efficient construction industry requires adequate and appropriate numbers of different
professionals at all levels to effectively execute its work. The industry, however, is faced
with a number of problems.
The construction industry is experiencing a severe skills deficit gap even at the time when
the sector is increasingly gaining traction in the economy.
As the economy continues to grow, and attracting more investments, more opportunities
for the construction sector are emerging, thus bolstering the demand for skilled and
experienced labor.
While Government of Rwanda is in the process of implementing mega infrastructure
projects, such as the railway, energy generation, methane gas, oil explorations, building
roads and bridges as well as irrigation schemes and mining, and the private individuals or
organizations are investing in housing development, skilled labor and technicians are
needed to facilitate the operations.
However, the supply of qualified engineers is too insufficient to match the demand keep
pace with what the market is demanding for. Even among the ones in the market most do
not have the required experience and expertise especially in specialized engineering fields.
According to data obtained from the Ministry of Public Labor, the construction sector in
Rwanda has a total skills gap of 3,259 labor units, which accounts for 65% of the existing
labor force. The survey also indicates that the skills gap in the sector is dominated by
Artisans who account for 86%, Technicians 8%, Scientists Professional 4%, Managers 3%,
and Professionals 1% of the total skills gap. The skills gap among Technicians is
dominated by Construction Supervisors at 40%, Electronics Engineering, Technicians 18%,
and Civil Engineering Technicians 17%. The occupations with the main gaps among
Artisans are Building Construction Laborers 47.2%, Stonemasons 20.1%, odd-job persons

7% and Sweepers 10% of the total artisan skill gaps. The existing employees also need
training in soft skills such as like leadership, business communication, and innovation.
Existing solutions to the above challenges
The Government of Rwanda (GoR) through Vision 2020 seeks to transform Rwanda into a
middle income country by 2020. This requires building a knowledge-based and
technology-led economy and strengthening the private sector. As the experience from more
industrialized countries and fast growing economies indicate, achieving such a goal
depends on the quality and quantity of the human capital that a country has in both the
public and private sectors. These are also fundamentals upon which technological,
economic and social advancements are based. From this perspective, the rapid development
of human capital is Rwandas most pressing development challenge to implement
respective national programs and priority initiatives. Among the solutions to the above
challenges the Government of Rwanda put in place different mechanisms one of them is
Rapid Response project, under WDA management.
Rapid Response project is a primary gateway to the workforce system for both dislocated
workers and employers and is a component of a demand driven system. The central
purpose of Rapid Response is to help laid-off workers quickly transition to new
employment. Rapid Response acts as both a provider of direct reemployment services and
as a facilitator of additional services and resources.
Rapid Response project must take an ongoing, comprehensive approach to planning,
identifying, and responding to layoffs, and preventing or minimizing their impacts
whenever possible. To ensure high quality and maximum effectiveness, successful Rapid
Response strategies include:

Informational and Direct Reemployment Services for Workers

Convening, Facilitating, and Brokering Connections, Networks, and Partners

Solutions for Businesses in Transition; Growth and Decline

Therefore AEBTP as an association of construction contractors needs to participate in this

Rapid Response project, to end up the direct problems found in construction industry in
Rwanda.

Some of actual problems faced by construction industry in Rwanda are under the following
range:
1. Machinery operators, mechanical and conductors (bulldozers, tower crane
operations)
2. Painting,
3. Tiling,
4. Topography,
5. Surveying,
6. Plumbing,
7. Electricity
8. Works costing,
9. Usage of gypsum in construction (ceiling and wall partition).
10. Alminium and curtain walling.

Objectives of this project

In order to achieve its goals, AEBTP in this project, generally, intends to upgrade the
capacity of the workers in construction in some specific domains which normally have very
rare skilled employees (where we import employees), so that our members get the skilled
employees and therefore become more competitive on local, region and international
market.
AEBTP specifically will coordinate the whole project and here under are the specific
objectives:

To plan and prepare the trainees from different construction companies;

To hire the trainings providers in the foresaid intervention domains;
AEBTP Members will provide training space (workshops and other premises) and,
materials (equipment & Machines)

To supervise the whole training programs as well as practical part of the programs.
Project Beneficiaries
There are three different beneficiaries groups for this project.

The first, and primary, beneficiaries are the members of AEBTP countrywide. Now time,
330 contractors are registered as members of AEBTP, however due to that most of the
companies are small and execute very few projects per year, this project targets the first
three categories (A, B, C) in all types of construction sector: buildings, roads and bridges,
dams, marshland development and hillside irrigation and drinking water supply (see the list
on appendix), total number of companies found in the first three categories is 58. In
average, each company will provide 2 trainees per each domain aforementioned, hence the
total number of trainees will be 1,160. We hope that this project will expand to more
companies as they upgrade the categories, since the categorization process will continue
over the years, as companies acquire new capacities.
The second group of beneficiaries is made of Government institutions which follow up the
growth of the sector and its outcome in matter of legal framework and standards of the
products and services provided. This group will benefit the skilled contractors and outreach
framework of contractors. The regulatory system will base the activities on the standards of
quality work delivered by the sector as whole. As the number of trainees will increases,
importation of employees will be reduced, hence the employment of local staff will
increase, and this will also improve the competitiveness of Rwandan Companies on local
and regional market. Hence, national economy will also be improved.
The third group is made of the public and private customers who demand the products and
services from the sector. This project will help the public and private customers of the
construction sector to get the effective and efficient products/services in matter of quality
and time respect.
All the clientele groups are important and essential components of this project. It is
expected that significant improvement of the products and services as well as the growth of
the enterprises, and the partnership between Government, construction sector and
customers will be improved significantly.
Project implementation strategy
This plan is established in a period of two years, we believe that after that period AEBTP
will be able to sustain its capacity building activities by itself with the help of the
membership annual subscriptions and of course with the help of different partners.

The training shall be conducted by Participative approach which is supported by the

adults training techniques that shall include workshop, lectures, group discussions,
practical, and the case studies which will take place in different construction projects, with
the help of AEBTP Members. The above method shall be used together with the alternation
between the assimilation of the concepts and practical exercises, which is Learning by
Doing, this will also be conducted in construction projects and will be totally evaluated by
AEBTP; (Employers will be allowed to appreciate their employees on training). These
approaches and interactive techniques will be applied all along the theoretical and practical
presentations
During this project, the following activities will be carried out in order to achieve the
objectives:
-

Members mobilization and sensitization for further understanding of the project,

Preparation of trainees from different companies (local),

Hiring skills provider agencies, according to their competitive programs and the
skills needs identified,

Identification of construction site that can offer the training site to our trainees,

Hiring and preparation of necessary learning machinery and equipment,

Approve the training timetable provided by hired training provider.

Management of trainings delivery,

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

The project will be monitored by AEBTP in its all component, the evaluation will be done
by AEBTP jointly with the direct beneficiaries. Midterm (6months) evaluation Reporting
will be done and sent to WDA Rapid Response Program. Every activities carried out will
be monitored to ascertain whether it is done correctly, at the given time frame and whether
the desired effect(s) is achieved. A monitoring format will be prepared with the help of
WDA Rapid Response Program and used daily by the monitors.
Project feasibility and sustainability
The people in the Companies, members of AEBTP are business oriented who target to
contract and execute the construction project. However, all of them said that they met
several constraints in their activities due to the shortage of skills. Therefore, they are all

aware of the importance of this project. During the field visit we discovered that most of
the contractors really need the skilled employees, but they dont know how to get them.
Hence, it is an opportunity for them to provide the identified needed special skills to local
construction employees. The contractors accepted to provide the sites and some equipment
and material for such trainings, of course the project will provide addition tools.

Project Budget

Item
1

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Total

Deliverables
Number of trainees in
Machinery operations,
Mechanical and conduction
(bulldozers, tower crane
operations)
Number of trainees Painting
Tiling
Topography
Surveying
Plumbing
Electricity
Works costing
Usage of gypsum in
construction (ceiling and wall
partition)
Alminium and curtain walling

GRAND TOTAL

Term I (6months)
Benef. Cost/Unit
58
250,000

Total
14,500,000

Term II (6months)
Benef. Cost/Unit
58
250,000

Total
14,500,000

Term III (6months)

Benef. Cost/Unit
58
250,000

Total
14,500,000

58
58
58
58
58
58
58
58

150,000
100,000
250,000
150,000
150,000
200,000
200,000
250,000

8,700,000
5,800,000
14,500,000
8,700,000
8,700,000
11,600,000
11,600,000
14,500,000

58
58
58
58
58
58
58
58

150,000
100,000
250,000
150,000
150,000
200,000
200,000
250,000

8,700,000
5,800,000
14,500,000
8,700,000
8,700,000
11,600,000
11,600,000
14,500,000

58
58
58
58
58
58
58
58

150,000
100,000
250,000
150,000
150,000
200,000
200,000
250,000

8,700,000
5,800,000
14,500,000
8,700,000
8,700,000
11,600,000
11,600,000
14,500,000

58
580

250,000

14,500,000
113,100,000

58
580

250,000

14,500,000
113,100,000

58
580

250,000

14,500,000
113,100,000

RWF 339,300,000

List of targeted beneficiaries

No

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29

30
31
32
33
34

CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES (CATEGORY A, B, C)

TYPE 1: BUILDINGS
CATEGORY A
EGECOR CREDO LTD
ENTREPRISE DE CONSTRUCTION SEBULIKOKO N.EMMANUEL
ENTREPRISE GENERALE DE CONSTRUCTIONS (E.G.C )
ENTREPRISE MUGARURA ALEX (EMA)
ENTREPRISE RUBARE JOSIAS (E.R.J)
FAIR CONSTRUCTION S.A.R.L
HORIZON CONSTRUCTION
HYGEBAT LTD
REAL CONTRACTORS LTD
CATEGORY B
E.C.M LTD
ECOSEKAT
ETS KAZOZA JUSTIN & CIE (ETABLISSEMENT KAZOZA JUSTIN ET
COMPAGNIE)
PRECISION HEAVY MACHINERY
CATEGORY C
ACOREBA
B.E.S & SUPPLY LTD
BETEX LTD
BETRA CONSTRUCTION
DELTA TWO CONSTRUCTION LTD
ECBRH LTD
ECODIV
ECOMEM CO LTD
ELECOM
EMG CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD
GEMT COMPANY LTD
GENUINE COMPANY "GECO" LTD
GOOD SUPPLY & CONSTRUCTION LTD
IRON ENGINEERING COMPANY (IECO LTD)
NOVAKI
STRONG CONSTRUCTIONS LTD
TYPE 2: ROADS AND BRIDGES
CATEGORY A1
ENTREPRISE DE CONSTRUCTION SEBULIKOKO N.EMMANUEL
ENTREPRISE MUBIRIGI PAUL (EMP LTD)
FAIR CONSTRUCTION S.A.R.L
HORIZON CONSTRUCTION
NPD-COTRACO

35
36
37
38
39
40

41
42
43
44

45

CATEGORY A2
ENTREPRISE RWANDAISE DE GENIE CIVIL ET CONSTRUCTION
(ERGECO LTD)
SAM CONSTRUCT
CATEGORY B2
PRECISION HEAVY MACHINERY
CATEGORY C
ECOTIBAT
EGECOR CREDO LTD
GEMT COMPANY LTD
TYPE 2: DAMS
CATEGORY A
ENTREPRISE MUBIRIGI PAUL
CATEGORY B
EGECOR CREDO LTD
CATEGORY C
EMUJABO (ENTREPRISE MUHAYIMANA JEAN BAUDOUIN)
ENTREPRISE RWANDAISE DE GENIE CIVIL ET CONSTRUCTION
(ERGECO LTD)
TYPE 4: MARSHLAND DEVELOPMENT AND HILLSIDE
IRRIGATION
CATEGORY A
RURAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERS CONSULTANTS (RCEC) LTD

CATEGORY B
46 ECOMAF Ltd
ENTREPRISE RWANDAISE DE GENIE CIVIL ET CONSTRUCTION
47 (ERGECO LTD)
48 SAM CONSTRUCT
49 STAR CONSTRUCTION AND CONSULTANCY
50 STRONG CONSTRUCTIONS LTD
TYPE 5: DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
CATEGORY A
51 ENTREPRISE GENERALE DE CONSTRUCTIONS (E.G.C )
52 FAIR CONSTRUCTION S.A.R.L
53 HYGEBAT LTD
CATEGORY C
54 COMECA LTD
55 ENTREPRISE DE DIVERSES CONSTRUCTIONS [DICO]
56 ENTREPRISE MUGARURA ALEX (EMA)
57 LE GOMTRE TOPOGRAPHE CONSULTANT (G.T.C)
58 STRONG CONSTRUCTIONS LTD
Source: RPPA, final categories of buildings and civil engineering works