Configuration territoriale décentralisée en République Démocratique du Congo : approche de développement et fin du pouvoir coutumier ?

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, decentralization is a derivative of article 3 of the 2006 Constitution, which stipulates that provinces and decentralized territorial entities have legal personality and are managed by local bodies (Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2006). The main objectives of decentralization as a mode of organization are summarized in two parts: • Promoting local and regional development, it is therefore necessary to promote the emergence of initiatives at the level of the various actors and the establishment of a new development framework based on the concerns, resources and know-how of the local populations; • Deepening the democratic process: at this level, it is a question of adapting the administration and more generally the institutional framework to the objectives and requirements of political pluralism by allowing the emergence of a local democracy (KALIFA M. P., in Penser pour agir, 2007). Decentralization can take two main forms: • The first concerns local authorities and is described as territorial decentralization; • The second form of decentralization is technical or functional decentralization, or even service-based decentralization. In the foregoing, the following questions are raised: • "Can the policy of decentralization lead to the development of the Democratic Republic of Congo?" • Who benefits from the decentralization of the Territorial Entities to the Bukavu Town Hall? At first glance, real decentralization would contribute to the development of the Democratic Republic of the Congo if leaders, investors, everyone took in hand, with the head and at heart that the interests of the nation come before those who are particular. The decentralization policy of the Bukavu City Hall could be one of the pillars of development if the allocation of resources for its effective launch was one of the priorities of governance for the community aspects for endogenous development. The choice done as part of this topic is based on daily observations as citizen conscript from time to time to participate in the consumption of property and produced services which the country produces or imports to other countries. This study, like any other scientific work, required a certain approach that used the method of content analysis. It was through the latter that we analyzed, cross-referenced and interpreted the information collected; this method was supplemented by two techniques, namely documentary technique and observation.