{"id":40119,"date":"2019-10-03T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/the-continent-has-huge-capacity-we-have-been-let\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T13:56:25","slug":"the-continent-has-huge-capacity-we-have-been-let","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/the-continent-has-huge-capacity-we-have-been-let\/","title":{"rendered":"The continent has huge capacity, we have been let down by the quality of governance-Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He made the observation yesterday in Seattle, Washington during discussions held with employees from Gates Foundation after interacting with founders including magnate Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame was with First Lady Jeannette Kagame for the discussions on Achieving Impact at Scale in Africa. <\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that the growth of the economy should be about the wellbeing of people and what can be done to improve their living standards and for most of them to achieve their aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame explained that Rwanda\u2019s progress rooted in putting citizens\u2019 welfare at the center.  <\/p>\n<p>He pointed out an example of community-based health insurance where the country had to cultivate in people\u2019s minds even for the category of poor people at the bottom that if they contribute even the smallest amount they can afford, \u2018they own it and they feel it is theirs\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to do more with less. We have been thrust into this position because of history and geography: the tragic history we have gone through and being a small country and landlocked. There is no way you can survive if you do not innovate,\u201d Kagame said.  <\/p>\n<p>The President said that it had a positive impact on reducing maternal and child mortality rates significantly as well as have hugely increased life expectancy by 20 and 21 years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrioritizing is a problem for people in our situation, everything is a priority, putting priorities in order is difficult. We prioritized healthcare, we looked at ordinary people, that is where we started from,\u201d stated Kagame.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you save children and mothers and make sure that they take the next day, week and year for granted. Especially when the history has been different and people have not been sure their babies will last until five. We have reversed that,\u201d added the President.  <\/p>\n<p>Kagame observed that in the next 25 years, Africa should be in a much better place than now. <\/p>\n<p>He underscored that the latter will emanate from deep integration into different areas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the next 25 years, Africa should be in a much better place than we are now. This will be based on how deeply we integrate, on trade, investment, sharing best practices and how we leverage the resources the continent has. The continent has a huge capacity. We have been let down by the quality of governance,\u201d Kagame observed. <\/p>\n<p>He stated that the good thing is that every leader, every country, every African is talking about what needs to be done to make this improvement which he believes is good and starting point that must be translated into action. <\/p>\n<p>The World Bank figures indicate that in 2015, 41 % of the Sub-Sahara African population lived in poverty while 27 of 28 of the world poorest countries are from Sub-Saharan Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Africa has developed the Agenda 2063 which encapsulates not only Africa\u2019s Aspirations for the Future but also identifies key Flagship Programmes which can boost Africa\u2019s economic growth and development and lead to the rapid transformation of the continent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32583 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/st1-41230.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame was with First Lady Jeannette Kagame for the discussions on Achieving Impact at Scale in Africa. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32584 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/st2-72dd4.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame said that Africa has capacity for progress and transforming the wellbeing of Africans but stalled by the quality of Governance\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32585 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/st3-d41e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32586 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/st4-4387a.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame observed that in the next 25 years, Africa should be in a much better place than now. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32587 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/st5-e3647.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has said that Africa has capacity for progress and transforming the wellbeing of Africans but stalled by the quality of Governance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40119"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40119"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}