Democratic Republic of Congo Sports and Culture for Development
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a fragile, post-conflict country with high demographic growth and poor governance, all of which have devastated institutions, the economy and the social fabric. The DRC was devastated by war in the 1990s an...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/296781568273422227/Democratic-Republic-of-Congo-Sports-and-Culture-for-Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32435 |
| Summary: | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
is a fragile, post-conflict country with high demographic
growth and poor governance, all of which have devastated
institutions, the economy and the social fabric. The DRC was
devastated by war in the 1990s and early 2000s, which
claimed millions of lives and all but destroyed much of the
physical and social infrastructure of the country. In
particular, DRC remains marked by high vulnerability of
various populations as a consequence of past and current
local and regional instability, especially in the East. A
growing number of studies show that exposure to violence
especially negatively affects the well-being of children and
hampers their development. This report is organized as
follows. Section 1 presents the DRC’s social and political
context, as well as the rationale for exploring innovative
approaches to build resilience and social cohesion. Section
2 summarizes some of the evidence on pathways linking sports
and culture to development. Section 3 presents the DRC
sports and culture institutional environment, and the last
section presents a few recommendations on how to further
this agenda in DRC. |
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