- Placement of gender focal points in all ministries, civil society NGOs and public and semi-public companies.

One week ago, employees of the State enterprises in the occupied provinces spontaneously began an unlimited strike to protest against the requisition of all monies received by these semi-public companies and against the suspension of collective agreements by RCD-Goma.

Broadening the tax base in order to provide enough public sector investment has been one of the priorities, and this is the reason for the many privatizations of public and semi-public companies on the continent, and the termination of trading systems based on exceptions and preferences.

In reality, in transposing a conflict of interest with Zimbabwe onto the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, certain members of the Security Council are suggesting that the Panel of Experts use its investigation into the semi-public companies and joint ventures set up by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe or through Zimbabwe to show that such organizations are in fact tools enabling Zimbabwean army officers and Congolese officials to loot Congolese natural resources and other forms of wealth.