Our History

A Congolese NGO founded on November 4, 1999 by 17 female activists to promote women's rights.

To ensure women's participation in the peace process, RFDP was at the forefront of establishing the Provincial Coordination of NGOs and Women's Associations in South Kivu (COPRONAF).

Legal assistance has been provided to women before the Courts and tribunals of Bukavu since 2002 through the provision of lawyers.

Three training workshops on gender and conflict transformation were held in Uvira and Bukavu. Ten trainers were certified at the end of these workshops.

RFDP, together with other women's organizations in South Kivu united within the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CCVS), initiated a draft bill on the repression of sexual violence and another on victim assistance, leading to the promulgation by the President of the Republic, in 2006, of two laws repressing sexual violence in the DRC.

Functional literacy on women's and girls' rights in the territories of Walungu, Kabare, and Mwenga since 2008 to date, along with the design of a dedicated manual.

From May 2011 to November 2023, RFDP carried out, with the technical and financial support of Swiss Cooperation, a program of psychosocial support and social reintegration for women and girls who were victims of sexual and gender-based violence.

A study on witchcraft-related issues in the health zones of Mwana and Kaniola, South Kivu, published in 2016, along with a proposed decree on the status of a public institution called the 'Reparations Fund for Victims of Sexual Violence in the DRC' (FORVS).

Study on sexual and gender-based violence in the mining sites of South Kivu Province.

The Strategic Advocacy Alliance, led by RFDP, actively participated in advocacy efforts that led, in September 2023, to the promulgation by the President of the DRC of two decree-laws on GBV (Decree-Law No. 23/023 and No. 23/024 of September 11, 2023).