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Democratic Republic of the Congo

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projects
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

About DR Congo

DR Congo is one of the key partner countries of VLIR-UOS. Between 2003 and 2023, the cooperation between VLIR-UOS and DR Congo represented more than €32,2 million, including 3 long term Institutional University Cooperation partnerships (IUC) and around 100 short-term projects. With 2 IUCs ended in Kisangani and Bukavu, another IUC has started in the University of Lubumbashi and forms now the heart of the DR Congo country programme. 

DRC is also one of our 29 scholarship countries.

Ongoing projects

DR Congo and Agenda 2030 - country reference framework

VLIR-UOS revised its country approach towards an ‘Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development’ centred approach. Moreover, VLIR-UOS wants to facilitate connections between different actors and projects present in a given country. With these objectives in mind, the Country Reference Framework (CRF) for DR Congo supports teams of academics when identifying and formulating project proposals, by providing a context analysis focused on Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development and the higher education sector in DRC, and by providing an overview of Belgian development actors active in DRC, their ongoing projects and partners, in view of exploration of opportunities for synergy and complementarity. Belgian Non-Governmental Actors involved in the geographic Joint Strategic Framework (JSF) DRC, those involved in the thematic JSF on Higher Education and Science for Sustainable Development, those involved in other thematic JSFs as well as Enabel have been included.

VLIR-UOS cooperation in DR Congo has been aligned with the DRC development plans in terms of national poverty reduction and higher education and has mainly focused on 2 central themes ( Connectivity, opening up towards the world ('désenclavement') ; Staff renewal and training of young academics ('relève académique') via which topics of top priority for the Congolese higher education sector such as Quality Assurance, Academic English and D4D have been dealt with by transversal projects and institutional university cooperation projects. Next to this numerous short and medium term projects were undertaken in the spheres of natural resources and biodiversity, food security, public health and social development.

Overview current partners

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