Rwanda: Small Companies, Big Business

By Sam Ruburica of Focus Media (Kigali)

"In a bid to promote development in Bugesera, the district authorities together with the Private Sector Federation are now thinking BIG - Bugesera Investment Group.

The initiative of pooling together resources in order to invest in bigger ventures was perceived by President Kagame, which led to the creation of the Rwanda investment group (RIG), a group of some 50 local businesspeople and enterprises which is now investing in methane gas, cement and tea, amongst others.

The Private Sector Federation (PSF), which had helped to bring the RIG people together, then started to transpose the concept to smaller geographic entities, starting with the provinces."

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Category: Rwanda + Business + Economy + Investment