Organized by the Ministry of Women's Rights of the DRC and UNESCO, this meeting brought together the Ministers of Women's Rights and the Secretaries-General of the National Commissions for UNESCO of the countries concerned, in the presence of the Permanent Ambassador of Kenya and President of the UNESCO’s Africa Group, as well as the Permanent Delegate of the DRC for UNESCO and the representative to the DRC to the Executive Board of the Organization.

All potential partners of this project also participated in this important conference, along with representatives of the African Union, the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region, different agencies of the United Nations, as well as the African Bank of Development.

Following the model of the first centre, created in 2006, in Ramallah, on the initiative of UNESCO, this project intends to promote the respect of women's rights and gender equality by strengthening the capacities of networks and centres of studies on women, while encouraging their involvement in the reconstruction of countries in post-conflict situations through the processes of democratization and good governance.

• Declaration of Kinshasa concerning the impact of gender on peace and development in the Great Lakes Region (PDF)
• Concept Paper on the establishment of a Women's Research and Documentation Center in the Great Lakes Region (PDF)