{"id":44313,"date":"2021-09-04T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/premier-ngirente-holds-talks-with-world-bank-group-executive-director-for\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:53:47","slug":"premier-ngirente-holds-talks-with-world-bank-group-executive-director-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/premier-ngirente-holds-talks-with-world-bank-group-executive-director-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Ngirente holds talks with World Bank Group Executive Director for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussions held yesterday at the Office of the Prime Minister were also attended by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nyamadzabo who is on a working visit to Rwanda also met with the Minister of Infrastructure, Amb. Claver Gatete and Minister of education, Dr. Valentine Uwamariya among others.  <\/p>\n<p>Their discussions revolved around seeking together measures to mitigate effects of COVID-19, how funds provided by the World Bank are efficiently utilized to fast track development projects in the areas of energy and telecommunications among others. <\/p>\n<p>The World Bank finances different projects in Rwanda in the areas of infrastructure, agriculture, education and vocation training, social protection, trade and urbanization.  <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nyamadzabo told the media that discussions with Premier Ngirente focused on effects of COVID-19 on the economy and implementation of different projects financed by the World Bank in Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he was impressed with how Rwanda efficiently utilizes received funding. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was here last in 2014. The country has attained remarkable progress in terms of infrastructure development among others. This is what we expect from all Rwandans,\u201d said Dr. Nyamadzabo.  <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ndagijimana explained that the World Bank has supported Rwanda\u2019s economic recovery efforts to mitigate effects of COVID-19.   <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt was an opportunity to assess the implementation of development projects funded by the World Bank including infrastructures. During difficult times of COVID-19, Rwanda has particularly secured funding from the World Bank allocated to purchase vaccines and help the country to mitigate effects of the pandemic in different areas,\u201d he noted.   <\/p>\n<p>The World Bank has also been supporting Rwanda in social protection programs to improve citizens\u2019 wellbeing.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39399 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/e-xxdcgxoaev5a05-6eb23_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39400 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w4fe4-d6e2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Premier Ngirente has held talks with World Bank Group Executive Director for Africa, Dr. Taufila Nyamadzabo on various topics including post COVID-19 economic recovery and Rwanda\u2019s efforts to implement development projects.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/44313","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44313"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44313"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}