The National Agency for Investment Promotion (ANAPI) is organizing open days from May 9 to 11.

Its managing director, Anthony Nkinzo Kamole, announced this Wednesday May 8 during a press conference held at the Anapi headquarters in Kinshasa.

Open to the general public, these days will take place at the Anapi headquarters, located near the Chancellerie stop, along Boulevard du 30 juin, in the Commune de la Gombe.

Their primary objective is to popularize long-term reforms implemented in order to improve the business environment in the DRC.

These open days also aim to allow all stakeholders, government technical partners, contributors, business enterprises in the public and private sector and the general public to better take ownership of the reforms put in place for the improving the business climate.

"A good understanding of the reforms put in place will have a positive impact on the ranking of the DRC in the next Doing business report and will attract investors," said Anapi’s CEO.

Another objective of these open days is to make Anapi better known, to present its statutory missions and its services.

All the technical and financial partners accompanying Anapi in the process of improving the business climate and promoting investment, and companies in the public and private sector and other State services will take an active part in this event.

Optimistic despite an electoral context which slowed down certain reforms, Anthony Nkinzo still hopes that the reforms initiated will allow the DRC to improve its score by ten places in the Doing business 2020 Report which will be published in October 2019. manual line
He notably highlighted certain reforms such as the electronic declaration of taxes, the border trade which is done more easily after the creation of the single window for foreign trade, the law on public private partnership (PPP), the law on order of architects, etc.

However, he stressed that the fight against a few pockets of corruption and bad governance is everyone’s business.

He also says he is confident that the DRC will be more attractive to investors because the new leadership at the head of the country has made "improving the business climate his hobby horse".

As a reminder, the DRC occupied the 184 th place out of the 190 economies evaluated in the Doing business 2018 ranking.