DRC Prisons: A March Towards Gender Mainstreaming

ICPA2023 Presentation by Lydia Masika Luthongo and Patience Sai (ICPA2023-PID183)

Authors

Lydia Luthongo Masika

Chief of Corrections, MONUSCO, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lydia Masika Luthongo is a career civil servant with over 27 years of progressive experience holding several portfolios. Ms. Lydia commenced her career as Secretary, Provincial Division of Justice in 1996 and between 2009 and March 2022 served as the Head of the Provincial Justice Divisions for North and South Kivu after which she was promoted and appointed the Director of Prisons Services in the Ministry of Justice, DRC. Madam Lydia holds a Bachelor of Law degree in Public Law from the University of Goma, DRC. Professionally, she has attended various courses and trainings in her line of work including participating in international conferences with a bias on conflict and post conflict as well as women peace and security in Georgia and Sweden respectively. She is also a trainer on prison reforms having benefitted from numerous MONUSCO CU trainings. She is fluent in French, Swahili, Lingala and has working knowledge of English.

Patience Sai

Chief of Corrections, MONUSCO, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Patience SAI is a Senior Corrections Officer at United Nation Peace Keeping Mission. She has various experience in prison management in United nations. She has been the chief of Corrections In Haiti(MINUSTAH), in CHAD, Mali. She developed with Congolese National a strategy: A March Towards Gender Mainstreaming.The strategy attempts to address gender in DRC prisons system in its fourteen-point priority areas. Chiefly among them, establishment of gender at central level, capacity building on gender mainstreaming, integration of gender in prison’s regulatory documents, gradual increment in the establishment of female personnel, lobbying for the integration of gender in the parent ministry, diversification and intensification of prisoner’s programmes, advocacy for the construction of women prisons and staff quarters and enhancing collaboration with development partners. Corrections Unit efforts will be directed towards realization of the strategies.

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