by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Farming
Rwanda grows more food than its own statistics of hunger and import bills would suggest is possible, and loses much of the difference between the field and the market. That gap, high production ambition against thin storage, processing and rural finance, is the real...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Consumers
National strategies are written for economies, but they are ultimately paid for by customers — the households and buyers who either feel the change on a shelf or do not. Rwanda’s development plans have consistently improved the country’s institutions and...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Money
Every transformation plan is, underneath the sector targets, a financing plan waiting to be built. Rwanda’s ambitions for the next five years — industrial parks, irrigation, tourism capacity, digital infrastructure — imply a capital requirement that a strategy...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Property
Rwanda has rarely lacked ambition. What it has more often lacked is the buildable land, the permits and the engineering hours needed to turn ambition into standing assets. The National Strategy for Transformation Two (NST2), published as the country’s 2024-2029...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Intellectual
The instinct across Africa is to copy what works. When one country announces an AI strategy, a dozen ministries reach for the template. But strategy is not a document to be photocopied; it is a set of assumptions about a specific place. Rwanda’s national...