A Master Plan of industrialization of the DRC launched
The Minister of Industry, Julien Paluku, proceeded to launch the project of developing the Master Plan of industrialization of the DRC in Kinshasa on thursday. This tool based on 3 axes, produced by the research firm Congo Challenge, aims to materialize the national policy and industrial strategies of the DRC.
“This master plan is a tool for implementing our industrial policy. The government had just adopted, on June 5, the document on industrial policies and strategies. It is this industrial policy that gives rise to the master plan of industrialization. All the strategies of this plan are grouped into three main axes, including the improvement of administrative governance.We cannot speak of industrialization when the model we had dates from 1960. We also want to make the DRC a economic and industrial pool. We are almost the only country with 9 neighbors. So by improving our industrial strategy, we can serve all neighboring countries and even all of Africa, “said Julien Paluku.For his part, Miche-Ange Lokota Ilondo, Managing Director of the research firm Congo Challenge, specified that this master plan includes a reading or analysis grid of the industrialization process of the DRC in order to bring it into line with the strategic orientations of the PNSD and the vision of the President of the Republic.
“The approach that will be used is subdivided into 5 stages, the main missions of which consist in circumscribing and identifying all the structural and economic problems facing the Congolese industrial sector in order to get an idea of the required transformations and the role they will play. in the implementation of the new economic model of the country. The other step will consist in apprehending and qualifying with detail and conciseness the environment underlying for the modification of the economic model of the country. We will then design a reading grid or analysis of the industrialization process of the DRC in order to align it with the strategic orientations of the PNSD and the vision of the President of the Republic.We will also detect priority projects to be carried out during the 2019-2023 period, with a view to a first five-year industrialization plan for the DRC “, said Lokota Ilondo.Industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been in free fall for decades. The data provided by the Prime Minister, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, in December 2019 during the award ceremony for Congolese inventors, indicate that to date, the DRC has only 500 industrial companies against nearly 9,000 that existed in 1960.
