Community Development

We integrate sustainable livelihoods into our strategic framework through our Community Development Programme (CDP). The aim is to support vulnerable and low-income households in improving their sources of income. These households usually have large families and poor access to basic social services such as health, water and education.

Through the CDP, individual households can organise into small associations setting up farming co-operatives producing food crops or raising livestock (such as poultry and pigs) as well as trade businesses (such as welding, carpentry, cutting and sewing, hairdressing, restaurants and small businesses).

The programme provides a range of training opportunities to enable these associations to improve their skills and become self-sustaining.

Enterprise Development Programme (EDP), a vehicle for change

As a prominent business in the DRC’s mining industry, KCC seeks to support enterprises owned by DRC citizens in developing and growing their businesses.

We consider our suppliers to be vital stakeholders in our business and strive to develop close working relationships with them to facilitate seamless value delivery of our goods and services as well as support them in growing their own business and contributing to growing the local economy.

The Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is responsible for managing procurement from local DRC suppliers at KCC. All goods and services tenders are examined for their suitability to advance the development of local Congolese-owned businesses in line with the KCC Local Procurement and EDP policy.

This policy encourages procurement from enterprises with minimum Congolese ownership of 51% and annual turnover up to US$5 million.