Vision

To promote excellence and scale of research and development (R&D) leading to innovations as key solutions to national and Africa’s development challenges.

Mission

To accelerate innovation growth that improves the quality and high standards of Rwandan and African citizens through mutually aligned sustainable cooperation

Core Values

Grand Challenges Rwanda is committed to ensuring that innovation growth become the standard to address key development challenges affecting Rwanda and other African countries, and shall be guided by the following fundamental core values:

Excellence: Grand Challenges Rwanda shall adhere to highest standard of scientific performance in terms of quality and transparency, ensure that best science thrives in an enabling environment, and creating structures that enable knowledge sharing and replication nationally, and within African continent and beyond.

Integrity: Grand Challenges Rwanda shall ensure honest, transparency and accountability through use of available resources to maximize intended outcomes and impact, while adhering to highest ethical standards.

Research culture for impact: Grand Challenges Rwanda ensure highest commitment to national and intra-African research culture that address key social, scientific, technological related challenges to save the lives of Rwandan and African citizens, as well as foster research culture that promotes required policy, institutional development and professional career development.

Diversity: Grand Challenges Rwanda shall ensure that all people are given equal opportunities through respect, fairness and dignity, and shall advance gender equality, and ensure that all people are respected and given equal opportunities regardless of gender, socio-economic status, age and experiences.