MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: CLOSURE OF TRAINING ON CAPACITY BUILDING OF CONGOLESE EXPERTS AND STATISTICIANS ON THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY INDEX- PCI OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT- UNCTAD TO ESTABLISH “PRECISION GOVERNANCE IN THE DRC”
“Precision Governance”, from now on, reliable data will be integrated into the economic planning of the Democratic Republic of Congo and into the implementation of sectoral public policies to promote industrialization, economic diversification, inclusive growth and exports of products made in DRC on the international market; Congolese experts and statisticians were trained for two days in Kinshasa on the computer analysis tools of the Productive Capacities Index-PCI of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-UNCTAD.
These experts and statisticians from the Directorate of Studies and Planning-DEP at the administrative level of the various ministries, the Statistics Service of the Central Bank of Congo-BCC and the National Institute of Statistics-INS, equipped with the international statistics system are now able to calculate and interpret the Productive Capacity Index of the Democratic Republic of Congo, because practical exercises were at the center of this specialized technical training,
said Rachid Bouhia, Economist, Productive Capacities and Sustainable Development branch at UNCTAD's Africa Division.
The Congolese Government, through the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, welcomes this support from UNCTAD and speaks of a decisive step taken, because the trajectory is therefore set to meet the challenges of industrialization, economic diversification and the promotion of exports of Congolese products; heading towards the diagnosis expected for July 2026, indicated the Secretary General for Foreign Trade, Eugène Manga Manga.
Note that the roadmap put in place at the end of the high-level National Workshop on strengthening the productive capacities of the DRC provides for different phases including the diagnosis between April and July, the validation of the Country Program Document set between September and October 2026 and the mobilization of donors for funds by 2027.
