{"id":3426,"date":"2014-05-20T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&web\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2017-07-16T20:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:08:28","slug":"president-kagame-receives-mkoba-private-equity-fund-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame receives Mkoba Private Equity Fund CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kigali, 20 May 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Kagame today received in his office the partner and CEO of the newly launched MkobaPrivate Equity Fund,Frannie Leautier, who is also former Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). The fund will support SMEs targeting equity investments ranging from $1.0 to $15 million Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, DRC, South Africa, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

After meeting the President, Frannie L\u00e9autier said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI briefed the President on what I have been doing since I finished my term at the African Capacity Building Foundation and thanked him because Rwanda has been one of the countries that worked closely and supported the ACBF along the years and has been one of the most successful countries to use support from the fund to advance its own priorities. I also briefed him about what I am doing now where we have just launched the Mkoba Equity Private Equity Fund to support Small and Medium Enterprises to make them global and regional champions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Frannie L\u00e9autier said discussions with the President also focused on how best to introduce the fund in the Rwandan context in terms of investments:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy to say I have received very strong support in terms of launching these activities in Rwanda and experiencing the successes of Rwanda where one can launch a business in a matter of days and this should be a signal to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Claver Gatete said the equity fund would be very significant raising the portfolios of Rwanda\u2019s Small and Medium enterprises which are the key providers of employment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great initiative for Rwanda because it provides solutions that are in line with our vision which aims to grow small business into big industries that can contribute to national development. The fund will introduce capacities and capital which are the main recipes for growth of businesses and we are hopeful that this will boost overall development of our country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kigali, 20 May 2014 President Kagame today received in his office the partner and CEO of the newly launched MkobaPrivate Equity Fund,Frannie Leautier, who is also former Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). The fund will support SMEs targeting equity investments ranging from $1.0 to $15 million Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, DRC, South Africa, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone. After meeting the President, Frannie L\u00e9autier said: \u201cI briefed the President on what I have been doing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}