"the impact of women entrepreneurs on economic development of rwanda" case study of women entrepreneur in expo 2010 organized by rwanda private sector federation.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED STATISTICS

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2010

THE IMPACT OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RWANDA

Case study: Expo 2010 at Rwanda Private sector federation Gikondo from 26^th/8 to 8^th/9/2010

Dissertation submitted to the faculty of economics and management as a partial fulfillment for the award of bachelor's degree in applied statistics by the National University of Rwanda.

Prepared By: HIRWA Pacifique

Supervisor: Ms. NIWEMAHORO Celine

Huye, October, 2010

DEDICATION

To Almighty GOD,

For your immeasurable help, mercy and grace,

To my beloved foster mother,

For her immeasurable help, care and advices

To my family and friends,

For your care, love and help

To my late mother

This dissertation is dedicated.

DECLARATION

I, HIRWA Pacifique, a student at the National University of Rwanda, Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM), Department of Applied Statistics (DAS), hereby declare that this dissertation entitled «The impact of women entrepreneurs on economic development of Rwanda a case study of Expo 2010 at Rwanda Private sector federation Gikondo from26^th/08 to 8^th/9/2010» is my own work and it has not been submitted anywhere for the award of any degree.

Name of the student: HIRWA Pacifique

Signature of the student ....................................

Date 8^t/10/2010

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The following work is not only an individual work .I could never have accomplished it without help, support, guidance and efforts of a lot of people to whom I owe my thanks. I would like to gratefully and sincerely thank all individuals who helped me during my education career. Here I want to mention my beloved foster mother MUKABASHIMA Agnes for her advices, financial support, encouragement, moral support, my family member especially my brother BYIRINGIRO Jean Pierre, NSHIMIYIMANA Jean Pierre and all my family, friends all your advices, moral, love has contributed to successful accomplishment of this work.

I would like to thank my research supervisor Ms. NIWEMAHORO Celine for her immeasurable commitment, effort, positive criticisms and willingness to spare and given up her scarce time to help me acquire new skills in Statistics .I have to recognize that without her devotion and skills, this work would not have been done.

I also have great pleasure to thank the Faculty Management and economic especially applied statistics department's lecturers for their devotion and professionalism showed during my undergraduate studies.

It would be ungrateful to forget to thank all women entrepreneurs who agreed to answer my questionnaires, in Expo 2010 chosen for my study. Without their answers and recommendations, this work would have been meaningless.

I would also like to thank all those who have, in various ways, supported me during this work, and whose their names are not written here, that they find here the expression of my deep recognition.

I say God bless you all

HIRWA Pacifique