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Rwanda SSIT Engine
NISR HACKATHON 2026 | MINAGRI & RAB SSIT POLICY ENGINE

Data-Driven Spatial AI for Rwanda’s Climate Resilience

Empowering Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) and RAB to target 50% Small-Scale Irrigation Technology (SSIT) solar pump subsidies by fusing NISR SAS cropland microdata, EICV household poverty indices, and Earth Observation climate reanalysis.

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896,180 ha
Total Cropland Area (NISR SAS)
845,988 ha
Rainfed Exposure (94.4%)
30 / 422
Districts & Sectors Modeled
0.9873
Sector ML ROC-AUC (XGBoost)

Solving Rwanda's Smallholder Irrigation Gap

Seasonal Dry Spell Vulnerability

Over 845,000 hectares of smallholder farmland rely entirely on seasonal rainfall. Prolonged dry spells in Eastern and Southern Rwanda severely impair crop yields and threaten rural food security.

Targeted SSIT Solar Pump Subsidies

Under Rwanda's NST2 strategy, MINAGRI subsidizes small-scale solar irrigation by up to 50%. AgriShield replaces manual distribution with transparent, multi-criteria data-driven targeting.

Explainable Machine Learning

Combining XGBoost and LightGBM models trained on NISR microdata with TreeSHAP explainability, every priority score is fully traceable back to empirical climate, crop, and poverty factors.

Top Priority Target Districts (Baseline Simulation)

Ranked by multi-criteria optimization (weight 1 (Climate) + weight 2(Cropland) + weight 3(Poverty))

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Nyagatare
Eastern Province
Kayonza
Eastern Province
Bugesera
Eastern Province
Gisagara
Southern Province
Gatsibo
Eastern Province

Built for Data-Driven Policy Decisions

3D DeckGL Spatial Maps

Interactive 3D choropleth map layers with extrusion elevation representing targeted SSIT solar pump density across Rwanda's 30 districts and 422 sectors.

Live Weight Simulation

Policy makers can dynamically adjust climate risk, cropland area, and poverty weights in real time with an automated live constraint enforcement (w_1 + w_2 + w_3 = 1.0).

Conversational AI Assistant

Built-in 360° RAG assistant powered by official NISR SAS survey reports, EICV microdata, and MINAGRI policy guidelines for instant natural language queries.

Ready to Explore Rwanda's SSIT Decision Engine?

Interact with the live 3D spatial map, simulate subsidy scenarios, inspect TreeSHAP feature contributions, and export field deployment schedules.

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