DRC: Improvement of the business climate, the Government adopts a new roadmap comprising 69 reforms

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has adopted a new reform roadmap aimed at improving the business climate.

It was during the tenth meeting of the Council of Ministers organized on Friday, July 2, 2021 by videoconference.

According to the Minister of State, Minister of Planning, Christian Mwando Nsimba, the development of this new roadmap relating to the improvement of the business climate follows the recommendations of the President of the Republic. Recommendations made during the eighth meeting of the Council of Ministers which he chaired from the town of Bunia, capital of Ituri province.

Christian Mwando indicated that this roadmap is the result of the retreat of the Thematic Group of fifty-seven (57) sectoral experts on the Business Climate which took place from April 19 to 24, 2021 at the Mbuela Lodge site in Kisantu, in Kongo Central.

In its configuration, the current roadmap includes sixty-nine (69) reforms as adopted by the Government’s Economy and Finance Commission and distributed as
suit :

• Matrix of short-term Doing Business reforms (6 months per year): 12 reforms;
• Medium and long-term Doing Business reform matrix: 23 reforms; and
• Matrix of reforms on the general business environment: 34 reforms, 17 recommendations and 5 urgent measures proposed to the Government.

For each of these flagship reforms listed, the indicators are retained. After their validation, they will be transformed into assignments for reforming ministers, under
in the form of a matrix with a precise timetable for better ownership and adequate monitoring of their implementation.

These assignments will be periodically reviewed to assess their implementation, says Minister of Communication and Media, Government Spokesman Patrick Muyaya.

Clearly, the central government intends to remove the obstacles to investment and good
conduct of business in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thus, for more efficiency in the implementation of the aforementioned reform package, the Government has lifted the option of making the sector ministers responsible for monitoring, each as far as it is concerned.

Mitterrand MASAMUNA

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