Strategies for establishing a lasting partnership between donors and Congolese business women

Abstract

In the World in general and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in particular, women are in the majority. According to the 1995 national survey on the situation of children and women in Zaire women account for 51.5 per cent of the total population while men are 48.5 per cent. In both space and time, women have always played decisive role in the areas of education, health, food security and in the informal sector, where they are the main labour force.