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Trainings on women's empowerment in the DRC

Despite the obstacles women entrepreneurs face in their businesses, they play an important role in the Congolese economy. They increasingly create employment opportunities for other women as well as men, while supporting their own families and communities.

The promotion of women in the world of work as well as the fight against gender-based discrimination are on the agenda of most public and private structures that organize training on female empowerment in order to equip women with new knowledge.

angle-left The Office for the Promotion of Congolese Small and Medium Enterprises - OPEC

The Office for the Promotion of Congolese Small and Medium Enterprises - OPEC

OPEC is a public service institution with legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy.

Placed under the supervision of the Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME), OPEC was created by Law No. 73-011 of January 5, 1973 as amended and supplemented to date by Decree No. 09/44 of December 03, 2009.

It is the technical body of the Government in matters of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It has its headquarters in Kinshasa and its field of action covers the entire extent of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its mission has a national vocation.

  1. Mission

OPEC's mission is to carry out all studies, to design and implement all actions likely to encourage the development or creation of SMEs, to improve the efficiency and productivity of defence.

To this end, it is responsible in particular for:

  • Research, update and disseminate general information on the priorities and potential for the development of small businesses and the potential for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises;
  • Centralize all the data of small and medium-sized enterprises at the national level;
  • Provide any assistance in the creation and management of small and medium-sized enterprises;
  • Certify and confer the quality of small and medium-sized enterprise
  • Encourage small and medium enterprises to leave the formal sector;
  • Create, develop and manage land or industrial parks intended for the deployment of the activities of incubation centers or incubators of small and medium-sized Congolese enterprises;
  • Carry out any other mission entrusted by the government in the area of small and medium-sized enterprises.
  1. Fields of activity

OPEC's interventions are mainly oriented towards the agro-pastoral sector, the processing sector, the artisanal sector, and services, including small trade.

These are mainly the following sectors:

  1. Agro- pastoral : These are production activities resulting from animal husbandry, fishing and agriculture, including the sale of agricultural products and market gardening products.
  2. Processing: This includes manufacturing or industrial activities, that is to say those that transform the raw material into a finished product through a value chain that involves added value. This category includes soap making, small copper smelting, biscuit making, the production of juices, essential oils, etc.
  3. Handicrafts This sector concerns the production and sale of mechanical and/or manual works of art. These include: pottery, ceramics, sculpture, painting, sewing, jewelry and mining activities.
  4. Service: These are financial and real estate activities, transport, business expertise services, the supply of digital and IT services, catering, mechanics, multimedia, fitting, communication and consulting activities , design offices, etc.
  5. Trade: It includes buying and selling activities as the main ones, carried out by SMEs. In this sector, there is, among other things, the sale of foodstuffs, tenants of bars and terraces, shops, import-export sales, etc.
  6. Activities for women
  • OPEC organizes training on business management, technical and managerial training with the aim of increasing women's activities.
  • The exhibition selling products made by women entrepreneurs

Objective: To make female entrepreneurship the priority, to encourage women to create their own businesses and to make young girls who are still at university aware of business creation.

  1. Conditions of participation
  • Move to OPEC General Management
  • Submit the project and the documents of your company
  • After filing, an OPEC team will visit the field to assess the effectiveness of the activities
  • OPEC will register the company in its database
  • Once registered, OPEC will contact you each time there is a training and/or an activated

Person to contact for more information on women's activities at OPEC

Ms. Denise Kachika

Public partnership manager

President of the Association of Women Workers of OPEC

+243908682864

Address and Contact of the General Management

“Royal” Building, Entrance C

June 30 Boulevard

BP: 16799 Kinshasa, DRC

Phone: +243815101420

Email: contact@opec.cd

https://www.opec.cd/

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