Information Guide

The numbers to contact for emergency interventions and social assistance

  • Police telephone line in Kinshasa:

+243 827 205 000

+243 903 982 039

  • Toll-free number to report sexual abuse (calls are free)

106

  • Assistance in case of sexual or physical assault (calls are free)

122

  • Covid-19 center toll-free number (calls are free)

110 and 108

  • Covid-19 Center:

+243825936 662

+243829889999

Ebola outbreak

The World Health Organization declared on June 25 the end of the Ebola virus epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This outbreak affected 3 provinces in eastern DRC: North and South Kivu as well as Ituri.

A new epidemic, the 11th recorded in the DRC, was declared on June 1, 2020 in the province of Equateur, precisely in the provincial capital Mbandaka. This province is located in the west of the DRC, 720 km from the capital of the DRC Kinshasa by river. The other cities of the DRC are not affected by this epidemic.

It is recommended to follow the following prevention instructions:

Address and contact of the National Institute for Biomedical Research - INRB

Av. De la Démocratie N°5345,
(Ex Av. Des Huileries), Kinshasa - Gombe

info@inrb.net

Schedule

Monday - Friday: 07:30 – 16:00
Saturday: 07:30 – 12:00

Social services in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Social services include a range of essential services to support women's rights, safety and well-being of women and girls who are victims of violence, including crisis information and helplines, psychological counseling and psychic, technical support for the promotion of women's activities, legal information and rights, as well as advice.

Ensuring access to basic social services is at the heart of the mandate and activities of many public and private structures, non-governmental organizations as well as specific programs in favor of women's rights and gender mainstreaming.

Health situation in the DRC

Since the Covid-19 pandemic and the opening of the borders, the movement of people, both arriving and departing from a city in the DRC , is subject to the obligation to present a medical certificate confirming the negative result. of the Covid-19 test. This test must be carried out no earlier than three days before the planned trip.
For an international trip departing from Kinshasa, the test must be carried out 72 hours before departure, with the travel document, at the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB):

Price of the test: 30 USD

The result is available in 24 hours

In Lubumbashi, only the Grand Provincial Laboratory, representing the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB)/Kinshasa, is able to issue a medical certificate confirming the negative result of the Covid-19 test.

For women who are in other provinces, they can approach the authorized test center closest to their place of stay

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Media Women for Justice in Congo (FMJC)

Kinshasa, Kwilu, Kongo Central, Upper Katanga

FMJC is a non-governmental organization for the rights of women and children, created in 2001 and restructured in 2013 under the legal number F92/17.871. Its main theme is the promotion of participatory and equitable governance of women at all levels of decision-making.

  1. Goals :

  • Contribute to the promotion and protection on the one hand, of the specific rights of women, children and the most marginalized people, and on the other hand to the emergence of social justice through good governance in the DRC;

  • Promote the culture of peace, through the fight against armed violence and citizen control of small arms and light weapons, as well as through the peaceful management of conflicts with a view to the long-term development of the DRC.

  1. Social services offered:

Training and education: FMJC organizes learning homes in its 4 target provinces which are:

  • Training in functional literacy (teaching young women to read and write in French as well as trades); and

  • Conscious literacy (teaching young women the ABCs of combat and women's rights, the legal instruments in force, gender, GBV, how to carry out advocacy with results, how to raise awareness of capacity change, how to take legal action in the event of litigation, in particular).

  1. Eligibility criteria and conditions of participation

  • Register in the learning center and be selected and then scheduled according to the session.
  • Be a young woman aged 18 to 35 and be a member or leader of a non-profit organization or any grassroots group (for awareness-raising literacy).
  • Be between the ages of 15 and 25 and not literate for functional literacy.
  • Be a resident of the sites in which the learning centers are organized.

  1. Participation fee

Everything is free, from the syllabus to the refreshment to the participation.

  1. Course duration

  • Awareness-raising literacy: 19 sessions, 3 hours per session.

  • Functional literacy: 3 months to the day

  1. Other organized activities

  • Advocacy: institutional advocacy for the increased participation of women in decision-making spheres; for the respect and application of women's rights and parity.

  • Publication of the gender and parity monitoring magazine (we are at the 1st edition). And cartoons fighting against SGBV, etc.

  1. Other services

Fight against the coronavirus: prevent the socio-economic crisis of the coronavirus in urban-popular environments in our various sites.

Award journalists who distinguish themselves in promoting the visibility of women's expertise related to political, economic action and other strategic issues.

  1. Coverage area

  • Upper Katanga (Lubumbashi),
  • Kinshasa (everywhere and the outskirts: Kisenso and Maluku in Menkao),
  • Kongo-central (Matadi),
  • Kwilu (Bandundu city, and Kikwit).

Contact information

Kinshasa/ Kisenso: Mr Reagan Ngandu 0820560377.

Kinshasa/ Maluku to Menkau: Ms. Blandine Kasodi.

Kongo-Central: Mr Christian Panzu +243901941700.

Kwilu: Bandundu-ville: Mr Alain Yamba 0818690502.

Kikwit: Mrs Lanasa Ansem 0815020582.

Upper Katanga/Lubumbashi: Mr Michel Kayembe +243810021672

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