The Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) is an institution established by the law No.49/2013 of 28/06/2013 and published in the official gazette of the Republic of Rwanda, to ensure collection and funding for the maintenance of road networks in Rwanda.
Ever since its establishment in 1998, the Road Maintenance Fund has achieved significant progress with regards to funding road maintenance, in spite of limited resources currently available.
From the time of its creation until now, RMF has recorded significant achievements in terms of road maintenance and bridge rehabilitation. Unfortunately, these achievements are at a modest level in comparison to general maintenance requirements throughout the country.
This modest level is the consequence of insufficient of funds, lack of execution competence of contractors and the slow procurement processes on the side of roads owners (MININFRA,RTDA and MVK).
Efforts should be made in order to increase funds through exploiting all resources as prescribed by law, to take into consideration present working load of contractors before awarding another contract, and finally to speed up the procurement processes and to make a good choice ion selection of contractors to be awarded the road maintenance tender.
