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MAKUTANO
If we don't,
who will ?
Makutano is the DRC’s and the economic subregion’s premier business platform. Its strategic importance cannot be overstated.
Only Makutano allows key players to actively accelerate economic transformation, while opening the doors to cross-border partnerships. Through Makutano, the power of the region's collective intelligence is being harnessed for the first time to create robust and sustainable value.
In short, Makutano is an African led response to the economic challenges of the Congo and the sub-region, and a gateway to major international partners.
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THE STORY OF A MEETING.
Makutano was born in 2015 from an unequivocal observation: the growth potential of an exceptional region is sclerotic by the limited interactions between the different actors of the Congo economic ecosystem. For Nicole Sulu, the founder of Makutano, the solution lies in :
- "Makutano", meaning meeting and intersection in Swahili, was designed to respond to this core need by:
- A sharing of problems.
- A co-writing solutions within a platform of active engagement capable of going beyond sectoral, competitive and geographical borders, of rethinking thinking, of thinking about joint action. In short, the outcome is to be found in a “makutano” (meeting, intersection in Swahili).
From June 2016, 150 Congolese leaders met at the Sultani hotel in Kinshasa. They were joined a few months later by nearly 350 of their counterparts from different sectors and the sub-region. Today Makutano brings together more than 600 active members via a business network driven by a new generation of innovative leaders, with more than 250 contracts concluded in three years.
The annual Makutano forum also constitutes the unmissable economic meeting in the region which is regularly attended by heads of state, ministers, African and international investors, media and high-level influencers.
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THE IMPACT OF A VISION.
By inviting the driving forces of the economic ecosystem of the DRC and the sub-region to dialogue, to pool their expertise and knowledge, to forge innovative partnerships and to define new reading and action frameworks, Makutano places African leadership at the center of the development equation and local & regional champions face their responsibilities.
For what ? Because they have expertise, experience, the resources essential to articulating a common vision, because Africa can only be a potential. Because leaders must play their role and cannot delegate it.
It is up to them to lead, enlighten, co-construct the individual and common successes of their continent.
This is the whole meaning of our brand signature:
IF WE DON’T, WHO WILL? If we don’t do it, who will? We, Congolese, Africans, we, business leaders, heads of state, opinion leaders, we, entrepreneurs and investors.
THE STRENGTH OF A PLACE.
Makutano anchors its project in a strategic location, the DRC.
Congo is in fact a true condensation of Africa and its challenges, with a plural, exceptional wealth to be converted into prosperity collective. Second largest country in Africa, fourth most populous country on the continent, leading world producer of cobalt and coltan, leading African producer of copper, territory with immense hydroelectric potential with 9 common borders with African states. East, Central and Southern Africa, the DRC can constitute a formidable accelerator of regional economic transformation.
Congo is in fact a true condensation of Africa and its challenges, with a plural, exceptional wealth to be converted into prosperity collective. Second largest country in Africa, fourth most populous country on the continent, leading world producer of cobalt and coltan, leading African producer of copper, territory with immense hydroelectric potential with 9 common borders with African states. East, Central and Southern Africa, the DRC can constitute a formidable accelerator of regional economic transformation.
It is therefore in Kinshasa and based on the promotion of local Congolese content that Makutano intends to carry out a reflection on a regional scale .
THE GRAVITAS OF A LEADERSHIP.
Who are the Makutano champions ?
They are proven leaders and aspiring leaders from the private and public sector, civil society and the diaspora without forgetting the legislator. Emblematic figures of their industries and/or agents of change, they put themselves into active listening mode and participative dialogue to bring out recommendations at the same time innovativeandpragmatics .
3 FIELDS OF ACTION.
The actions of Makutano are organised around 3 key pillars: Business, Collective Economic Intelligence and Influence.
BUSINESS
Identifying business opportunities and growth drivers, searching for complementary interest and synergies, investment and financing of potential.
INFLUENCE
Networking, informed lobbying, transversal dialogue.
COLLECTIVE ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
Sharing of best practice, promotion
of regional & local success models, economic and ecosystem innovation, cutting-edge business strategies, sector insights and monitoring.
