{"id":49169,"date":"2023-10-27T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-secures-eur50-million-in-eu-funding-to-support-pre-primary-education\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:18:17","slug":"rwanda-secures-eur50-million-in-eu-funding-to-support-pre-primary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-secures-eur50-million-in-eu-funding-to-support-pre-primary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda secures over Rwf64 billion in EU funding to support pre-primary education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official announcement of this funding took place in Brussels on the sidelines of the &#8220;Global Gateway&#8221; investment forum. <\/p>\n<p>The disclosure occurred during a meeting between Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente and the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, which transpired on Thursday of this week.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was signed by Rwandan Minister of Education, Gaspard Twagirayezu, who represented Rwanda, and Ms. Urpilainen, who represented the EU.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to discussions about this critical funding, Dr. Ngirente also presented Rwandan initiatives in the domain of essential medical equipment. <\/p>\n<p>One of these initiatives is the establishment of the African Institute for Bioproduction, a venture aimed at alleviating the scarcity of skilled professionals in the pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n<p>The global COVID-19 crisis underscored the shortage of medical equipment worldwide, underscoring the pivotal importance of investing in the healthcare sector. <\/p>\n<p>The European Investment Bank has also allocated supplementary funds to be utilized for the construction of schools and related infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the role of the Global Gateway in the enhancement of medical equipment production was emphasized. The forum encouraged companies to make further investments in this field, with a focus on elevating the quality of services available to the general population.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-60736\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton44410-8d183.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda has secured over Rwf64 billion to support pre-primary education. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda has recently received a financial injection of 50 million euros, equivalent to over Rwf64 billion, from the European Union (EU). This generous funding has been allocated to advance the development of pre-primary education in the country.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000060735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000060735,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton44410-8d183.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton44410-8d183.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton44410-8d183.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton44410-8d183.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton44410-8d183.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton44410-8d183.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49169","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=49169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000060735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49169"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49169"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}