On March 15, the Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP in French) sent a team to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to participate in a study on the knowledge, attitudes and practices in the security and justice sectors of the country.

The British firm EDG International and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned the study, which aims at providing data for the “Security Sector Accountability and Police Reform Programme” (SSAPRP). The study will be undertaken in three provinces: Lower Congo, South of Kivu and Western Kasaï.

IREEP, in partnership with the DRC’s National Institute of Statistics, is responsible for designing technical documents (sampling and questionnaire design), supervising field work and analyzing the data collected from the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) survey. The objective of the KAP survey is to gather information on populations’ perceptions and experiences on security and justice. The sample size is of 9000 respondents in the three provinces mentioned above. The survey includes issues on conflict, sex, accountability and the fight against corruption.