Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. RECENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION -- POVERTY PROFILE -- 1.1.1. Monetary Poverty -- 1.1.2. Non monetary poverty -- 1.3. MAIN CAUSES OF POVERTY -- 1.3.3. Employment gap -- 1.4. CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS -- CHAPTER 2. STRATEGIC PILLARS OF THE GPRS 2 -- 2.1. DEVELOPMENT VISION AND OPPORTUNITIES -- 2.2. MAIN OPTIONS OF THE STRATEGY -- 2.3. PILLAR 1: STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE AND PEACE -- 2.3.1. Strengthening State authority -- 2.3.3. Pursuing the public finance reform -- 2.3.4. Improving the business climate and promoting the private sector -- 2.3.5. Building institutional and human capacities and modernizing the public administration -- 2.3.6. Supporting the planning set up and the national statistics system -- 2.3.6. Restructuring the Central Bank of Congo -- 2.4. PILLAR 2: DIVERSIFYING THE ECONOMY, ACCELERATING GROWTH AND PROMOTING EMPLOYMENT -- 2.4.1. Boosting agriculture and ensuring food security and the well-being of rural dwellers -- 2.4.2. Developing support infrastructure for production activities -- 2.4.4. Promoting foreign trade -- 2.4.5. Promote employment -- 2.4.6. Developing the country and cities -- 2.4.7. Formalizing the informal sector -- 2.4.8. Promoting spatial development -- 2.5. PILIER 3. IMPROVING ACCESS TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES AND STRENGTHENING HUMAN CAPITAL -- 2.5.1. Strengthening human capital -- 2.5.2. Fighting against HIV/AIDS -- 2.5.3. Reducing inequalities and vulnerability -- 2.5.4. Improving the living conditions of populations and access to services -- 2.5.5. Promoting community dynamics -- 2.6. PILLAR 4. PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND FIGHTING AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE -- CHAPTER 3. IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK OF THE STRATEGY.

3.1. MACROFISCAL FRAMING AND PRIORITIES OF ALLOCATION OF CREDITS -- 3.1.1. Scenario of the macroeconomic strategy (GPRSP Scenario) -- 3.1.2. PEG Scenario -- 3.2. FINANCING STRATEGY -- 3.3. MONITORING-EVALUATION MECHANISM -- 3.2.1. Challenges and opportunities -- 3.2.2. Information system -- 3.2.3. Institutional architecture -- 3.4. CONSTRAINTS AND RISKS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE GPRSP 2 -- 3.4.1. Domestic risks -- 3.4.2. External risks -- ANNEXES -- List of Boxes -- Box 1. Reminder on the GPRSP 1 process in DRC -- Box 2. What is a PRSP? -- Box 3. Simulation of Poverty in the DRC: Methodology of Simulatio -- Box 4. Progress towards the MDGs -- Box 5. Main obstacles to economic growth in the DRC -- Box 6. Vision 26/25 -- Box 7. Key actions of the Strategic Plan for Public Finance Reform -- Box 8. Performance indicators -- Box 9. Why the performance? -- Box 10. DRC Statistics: Problems of data comparability -- Box 11. Forestry Code -- Box 12. Job creation and achievement of MDGs -- Box 13. Accompanying measures to free primary education -- Box 14. Mitigating measures of the environmental impact of Pro-Routes project -- Box 15. Government's Economic Program (PEG-II), 2009-2012 -- Box 16. The implications of the development of national accounts according to the 1993 SNA on the main macroeconomic indicators -- List of tables -- Table 1. Distribution of mortality of Congolese children according to the socio-economic group -- Table 2. Fairness in access to health services in the DRC -- Table 3. Evolution of indicators of MDGs -- Table 4. Doing Business (DB) Indicators for 2010-2011 -- Table 5. Evolution of social expenditures (as a % of total expenditure) -- Table 6. Global and sector objectives of the strategy -- Table 7. Evolution of sectoral growth from 2010-2015 (in % GDP) -- Table 8. Evolution of revenues and expenses (in % GDP).

Table 9. Budget deficit financing (in % GDP) -- Table 10. Sectoral distribution of annual budget allocations over the period 2011-2015 -- Table 11. Major macroeconomic indicators of the PEG scenario (In % GDP, unless otherwise indicated) -- Table 12. Sectoral distribution of annual budget allocations over the 2011-2015 period -- Table 13. Reporting tools -- Table 14. Key structures and responsibilities within the monitoring-evaluation system of the GPRSP -- List of figures -- Figure 1. Operationalisation framework of the Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Figure 2. Mortality of Congolese children -- Figure 3. Net Primary enrollment rate -- Figure 4. Appreciation of households -- Figure 5. Evolution of the economic growth rate and inflation rate -- Figure 6. Indicators of flow-of-funds table of the State and balance of payment (in % of GDP) -- Figure 7. Sources of growth in the DRC -- Figure 8. Value added of sectors at provincial level -- Figure 9. Evolution of rate and average employment -- Figure 10. Customs duties on consumer goods per centile of Revenue Distribution -- Figure 11. Implementation, monitoring-evaluation device (institutional framework).