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Conference Title: Africa-Rwanda Business Applications – Rwanda Business Secrets
Date: Monday, September 5, 2022, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Japan time
Organized by JICA
Co-sponsored by Tokyo Kiramboshi Financial Group, Inc. and Kiramboshi Bank, Ltd.
Location: Online Seminar
Main Participants
Africa Accounting Advisory CEO: Mr. Yuga Kasai
Established in Rwanda in 2015. Japanese accounting/consulting firm specializing in Africa.
Established in Rwanda in 2015. Japanese accounting firm/consulting firm specializing in Africa Shinji Inoue, Director, Otowa Electric Industry Co.
Since 2016, conducting business and research activities related to lightning arrestors in Rwanda. Currently implementing JICA’s dissemination demonstration business development project.
Since 2016, he has been conducting business and research activities related to lightning arresters in Rwanda. Currently implementing JICA’s dissemination demonstration business development project Mr. Kota Nakano, Senior Operations Strategy Manager, Bboxx Ltd (Mitsubishi Corporation):.
Off-grid power supply business combining solar panels, storage batteries, and home appliances, mainly in Rwanda and other African countries
Off-grid power supply business combining solar panels, storage batteries, and home appliances, mainly in Rwanda and other African countries.
Established in Rwanda in 2012. Conducts macadamia nut production, processing, and export business.
Established in Rwanda in 2012. Conducts macadamia nut production, processing, and export business Hidekazu Tanaka, President, Rexbert Communications, Inc.
Established a base in Rwanda in 2014. Offshore development and support business for expansion into Africa.
Established a base in Rwanda in 2014. Offshore development and support projects for entering African markets Makoto Maruo, Director, JICA Rwanda Office (moderator)
Background and Objectives
In order to introduce the life and business environment in Rwanda, Africa to a wider audience, a video introductory to Rwandan business was posted on JICA’s YouTube JICA YouTube channel for a limited time (July 11-September 30, 2022).
This online seminar was positioned as an application of this seminar, and was conducted with the aim of stimulating participants’ interest in doing business in Rwanda and contributing to the development of a concrete business image.
Contents
In the panel discussion, which was the main part of this online seminar, we invited panelists from five Japanese and Japanese companies doing business in Rwanda to talk about the attractiveness of Rwanda, difficulties in doing business in Rwanda, and other topics that only companies actually doing business in Rwanda could discuss from the frontline.
After discussing how they came to start business in Rwanda, a small landlocked country that does not necessarily have a favorable market environment, the reasons why they chose Rwanda as their base, the advantages of working with local partners and third country companies in Africa, and the success and failure factors of companies that are successful in Africa and those that are not, the panelists then He then answered questions from the audience.
Eighty-one people attended the seminar, and survey respondents commented that it was very meaningful to hear firsthand accounts from people who are actually running businesses.
This seminar will be posted on the JICA YouTube channel.
Materials
The Rwanda Office has prepared profiles of local Rwandan companies and other information in the following areas. Please contact our Rwanda office at rw_oso_rep@jica.go.jp if you require them.
Sectors: agriculture, food processing, off-grid energy, transportation, manufacturing, finance, water sanitation, education, ICT, health (hospitals, pharmacies, manufacturing, health tech) and importers and distributors of medical equipment and materials.
Related Links
Reference: Introduction to Business in Africa and Rwanda (On-demand Seminar)
The online seminar, “Introduction to Rwandan Business in Africa – Delivering the Appeal from the Frontlines -” is available on JICA’s YouTube channel until the end of September 2022. Please take this opportunity to watch it!
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