BURUNDI PRESENTATION

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BURUNDI PRESENTATION

• by
• Marie Chantal NZOPFINDEKUYE

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Outline

• 0. Geographical location
• I. What is the importance of the selected
  sectors in our country
• 1. Tourism sector
• 2.Culture sector
• 3.Education sector
• 4.Traditional medicine sector
• II. State of each sector

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Outline ( following)

• III. Key barriers. 1. External barriers.
• 2. Internal obstacles.
• IV. How overcoming these barriers
• Take on initiative for the promotion of
  foreign trade
• V. Negotiation framework.

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0. Geographical location

• Burundi is a small country situated between
  East-African and Central Africa.
• It is limited by the Democratic Republic of
  Congo in West and South-West, Rwanda in North and
  Tanzania North-East and South West. Thanks to the
  Lake Tanganyika with 650km, Burundi becomes an
  entrance to powerful countries of East Africa,
  Central Africa and Southern Africa

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Geographical location( following)

• Our country has a surface of 27,834 km2 with
  3,000Km2 taken up by the Lake Tanganyika.
• Burundi doesnt have access to sea. But it is
  linked to the Ocean Indian by 3 ways
• -The way said North, is a road crossing Rwanda,
  Uganda and Kenya till Mombassa port. The length
  of the road is about 2,000km.
• -The way said South, 180Km from Lake Tanganyika
  port to Kigoma port in Tanzania

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Geographical location( following)

• A 1,250Km railway that links Kigoma port to
  Dar-es-Saalam. It is the least expensive way for
  the transport of goods.
• The 180km central way that links Bujumbura to the
  port of Kigoma. That way is not passable on some
  areas in Tanzania especially in the rainy season.

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I. What is the importance of the selected
sectors in our country

• Selected sector are
• 1.Tourism sector
• 2. Culture sector
• 3. Education sector
• 4. Traditional medicine sector
• The above sectors are important in our country
  as far as services export is concerned. The first
  and the second have enormous potentialities and
  opportunities when comparing them to the third
  and the forth. They have potential services
  assumed to be exported in Europe.

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II. State of each sector1.Tourism

• Burundi has a great potential touristic
  services
• - Beauty hills with large green spaces
• - Lake Tanganyika with very good beaches
  (Saga Resha, Saga Nyanza, Saga plage, etc.)
• - Five small lakes in north of the
  country.
• - Source of Nil at Rutovu in Bururi
  province
• - Stanley and Livingstone stone place
• - The special freshness of Bugarama
• - Kibira and Ruvubu parks

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1.Tourism ( following)

• Data available in the Ministry of commerce shows
  that about 50 of revenue from services
  exportations comes from tourism. Tourism exports
  in region, E.U and globally. People from deferent
  countries admire the beauty of our country.
  

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2.Culture sector

• 2.The culture sector produces a lot, as Burundi
  has many and various cultural groups and clubs.
• The exact number of cultural clubs is unknown but
  the main are
• - 8 clubs in provinces and 9 in Bujumbura
  Mayorship. (see Page 10-11 of the document).

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2.Culture sector

• These groups export in regions and sometimes lack
  opportunities to go far. For instance, the
  cultural clubs BIRENZI VYA NTARE have been in
  china, South Africa, in Uganda, in Japan and in
  Canada to celebrate the festival dances and
  songs.
• RUKINZO Legacy club has been in Canada and LAC
  AUX OISEAUX club has been in Tanzania on the
  occasion of Burundi peace process agreement
  cerebration. All their presentations have been
  highly appreciated.

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3. Education.

• A number of Burundians desire to go deep in their
  studies but some lack of scholarships and other
  lack financial means.
• High educational system now includes 6 public
  institutes and 12 private institutes ( Page 13-14
  of the document). From these Universities, we
  expect to get qualified people who can provide
  special teachings about our country in EU.

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3. Education (following).

• For instance the lecturer Adrien Ntabona
  initiated Burundi Literature course at
  University of Burundi that is integrated in the
  curriculum of the Faculty of Arts and Social
  Sciences. We assume that course should be
  exported in E.U.
• It is structured as other literatures (African,
  French, English, American) that are imported and
  taught at university of Burundi.

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4. Traditional Medicine

• There exist a number of traditional medical
  centres in Burundi but only four are mentioned in
  the document. The focus has been on only one
  centre, managed by a Parish Priest, Leopold,
  MVUKIYE .
• Nurses from these centres are highly appreciated
  by domestic and external beneficiaries. The
  external demand is from frontier countries such
  as Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo (see page18)

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III. Key barriers. 1. External barriers.

• External barriers are the most important
• The lack of freedom of settlement,
• Free movement of people and capital,
• Lack of access to markets in European Union,
• The developed countries limit the liberalism of
• free movement of highly skilled people.

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External barriers (following).

• There are restrictions on temporary settlement
  into the European countries based on formalities
  for paperwork, visas or work permits,
• The imposition of high taxes on the repatriation
  of income,
• No formal recognition of professional
  qualifications.

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2. Domestic obstacles.

• - Low income and lack of capital
• - High cost and poor infrastructure,
• - Skilled workers,
• - Narrow market,
• Administrative slowness,
• - High rates of taxation,
• - Lack of information about available market,
• - Unfair competition.

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IV. How overcoming these barriers

• To address these issues, there are some
  opportunities
• Natural tourist resources
• The hotel trade is now growing and is
  competitive.
• A security recovered.
• - Roads in good condition
• Strategic location of Burundi
• - The investment environment.

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Take on initiative for the promotion of foreign
trade such as

• - Better information and market searching -
  Organization of exhibitions. - Training of
  managers of enterprises and improvement of laws
  and regulations. - Mobilization and change of
  attitudes.
• - The institutional framework is now varied
• Indeed, there are public institutions
• the Ministry of Commerce,
• the National Office of Tourism,
• the agency regulation and control of
  telecommunications.

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Public institutions

• The Bank of the Republic of Burundi,
• The administration of Aeronautic services,
• to name but a few

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Private institutions

• Chamber of commerce and investment of Burundi
  (CCIB),
• Association of Employers of Burundi.
• The Association of Industries of Burundi.
• Private and public institutions should work
  together so as to overcome all the mentioned
  barriers.

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V. Negotiation framework.

• To face such an important partner ( EU), the
  negotiation would be done within the WTO because
  in the WTO the developing countries group makes
  itself understood as it has been proved in Doha
  Round.
• On the contrary negotiation trough EPA, EAC and
  COMESA member countries are not strong.

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• Thank you