Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde proceeded, this Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at the Rotana hotel, to the official launch of the foundations of the very first Meeting of governance in the DRC. Centered on the theme: “Strengthening governance bodies and results-based public management mechanisms”, the governance meeting is part of the Integrated Support Program for Decentralization and Local Governance and development planning.
This is an important activity initiated by the Ministry of Planning, in collaboration with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, with the financial support of the Kingdom of Sweden and the partnership of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The main objective pursued, through these two-day meetings, is to seize the opportunity of the review of the National Strategic Development Program (PNSD) to harmonize several initiatives to strengthen governance and development planning. This will involve presenting to participants the package of support in terms of institutional and human capacity building for the benefit of the central government, provincial governments and provincial assemblies in order to make them consistent for better coordination.
Several delegates from central and provincial public institutions, technical and financial partners, delegates from civil society and the private sector take part in these meetings.
Officially launching these meetings, the Prime Minister welcomed the holding of this event which inaugurates the effective start of the Integrated Support Program for decentralization, local governance and development planning. He paid a vibrant tribute to the President of the Republic, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo for his determination to stimulate, thanks to this programmatic tool, investment reforms in the sector likely to boost inclusive growth and structural transformation with a view to accelerate the march of the Democratic Republic of Congo towards its emergence.
The Head of Government was delighted with the materialization of this project, with the support of technical and financial partners.
“This is why, today, I am very pleased to see the materialization, thanks to the technical and financial support of the Kingdom of Sweden, acting through the UNDP, of the Integrated Support Program for Decentralization, local governance and development planning. I hereby congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, the Ministry of Planning for the efforts made to launch this program, which will certainly serve to materialize the priorities of the Government in achieving the objectives that we have set ourselves. I would like to express once again, all my gratitude to the Kingdom of Sweden for the sustained support of the Government in its efforts to improve the economic well-being and of the Congolese population. My thanks goalso addresses the UNDP, through its Representative, who spares no effort to mobilize resources to finance pro-SDG projects whose expected transformational effects are likely to change the living conditions of the Congolese population,” said Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde.
Finally, the Prime Minister invited SENAREC and the UNDP to make every effort to strengthen collaboration with all the technical structures of the Government in the realization of this project, because according to him, “this conjunction of efforts should promote the capture of the opportunity offered to us by providing our country with effective governance mechanisms and mechanisms at all levels. This will make it possible to strengthen the coordination function of the Government’s program and the resulting public policies. culture of monitoring and evaluation, the implementation of which will have to use the tools and the system most suited to the practice of engagement letters. I am convinced that the success of government action will notis possible only when we are in synergy with the actions of the provincial governments in order to bring to our populations what they expect, that is to say, their well-being”, concluded Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge.
