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As the second-largest country on the African continent, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is emerging as a stable and promising leader in Africa, with improved security, a growing economy, and a commitment to democratic governance. Since the signing of a peace accord in 2002 that ended years of civil conflict, the Congolese people have taken critical steps in forming a unified military, establishing new foundations for economic progress, and pursuing democratic aspirations guided by the 2006 Constitution.

Rich in both human and natural resources, the DRC has established policies that are generating strong economic growth as well as interest and engagement by international investors. Its entrepreneurial workforce has demonstrated both resilience and determination. To support this progress and future potential, the nation’s infrastructure is being rebuilt with new roads, schools, and hospitals under construction—both promoting employment and stimulating further commercial activity.

The DRC is known for its vast resources and diverse wildlife, including a large portion of the second largest tropical forest in the world, the Congo Basin. The country is home to 1,000 bird species, more than 400 fish species, 10,000 species of plants, and three of the world’s four great apes. Breathtaking protected habitats are located in the DRC, including Garamba National Park and Virunga National Park—the world’s oldest nature preserve of its kind. The DRC also possesses nearly 80 million hectares of arable land and more than 1,100 minerals and precious metals.

Important points include:

• DR Congo membership of OHADA (Organization for the Harmonization of Corporate Law in Africa);
• Exclusion of nationalization and expropriation;
• Freedom of transferring abroad dividends and other investment-generated income;
• Disputes settlement under CIRDI convention (International Centre of Dispute Settlement), based in Washington City;
• Set-up of One-Stop-Shop for investments: ANAPI;
• Removal of some formalities in the process of setting up enterprises such as authentication of visa, certificate of non-state employee, criminal record, etc.;
• Noticeable cut of the costs to obtain the New Trade Register;
• Publication of enterprise charters in the Gazette (Official Journal) through internet to save time;
• Set-up of many notaries offices throughout the country;
• Mechanisms for the safety of investments such as DR Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo has resolutely embarked on a vast process of cleaning up its business environment, through the implementation of reforms affecting all sectors of economic life, with the objective of reducing, simplifying and making procedures, deadlines and costs of administrative operations are transparent.

And within the framework of its institutional prerogatives, the National Agency for the Promotion of Investments (ANAPI), Technical Advisor to the Central Government and Provincial Governments in the area of ​​investment promotion and improvement of the business climate, commissioned a study to assess the effectiveness of the application of the reforms initiated by the country's authorities to clean up the business environment in the 26 provinces of the DRC.

The study, conducted by Target, a polling and consulting firm based in Kinshasa, focused on five indicators, namely: the start of economic activity, taxation (property tax and tax on rental income), the building, real estate transfer and the quality of administration and institution (focused on the number of Edicts of an economic nature, apart from budgetary Edicts, taken by the Provincial Assemblies between 2017 and 2022) . The objective was to assess the impact of the reforms in relation to the objectives set for each indicator mentioned above, to ensure the level of satisfaction expressed by the beneficiaries of these reforms and finally to classify the provinces according to the performance criteria. in the implementation of reforms.