Guide to setting up an NGO

Born in Kinshasa on 23 April 1986, Kasongo Yoshoua graduated in law from the University of Lubumbashi and immediately co-founded CIDHD, an NGO based in Kinshasa. He is a consultant to NGOs in sustainable development and human rights, a human rights activist and a youth leader.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing a significant and complex growth of NGOs operating in different sectors of social life. In my capacity as a legal researcher and observer of the life of ASBLs and wanting to understand the organisation and functioning of NGOs, it was important to put in place this guide in order to respond on the one hand to the legal formalism with regard to the law in force and, on the other hand, to bring our analyses and observations in order to denounce the lack of associative and extrovert spirit which animates the majority of Congolese NGOs. The main objective of this work is to encourage the so-called Northern NGOs in their fight against poverty and anti-values to first build the man who will take charge of the future of his society and not a simple manager of a project conceived in the West by experts who, for the most part, do not know the Congolese difficulties. Its NGOs help underdeveloped countries to undertake a long journey towards the rule of law and social well-being. Affirming the need for a change of mentality in the operating system of Congolese NGOs.