In Pointe-Noire, the conversation about Congo’s future is increasingly being shaped by the women who live it. That message anchored a recent stop in the country’s economic capital, where the Social Pact moved from official text to neighbourhood discussion.
A National Tour Reaches the Coast
Yennie Clara Mathurine Ossété Mberi Moukietou, executive secretary of the Women’s Consultative Council, travelled to Pointe-Noire to continue her nationwide campaign promoting the Social Pact. Her visit carried the initiative directly to local audiences rather than leaving it confined to administrative circles.
The Social Pact, as presented during the meeting, stands as a commitment between Congolese women and President Denis Sassou N’Guesso. Framing it as a shared engagement, the executive secretary positioned women not as bystanders but as active partners in the country’s direction.
Three Values at the Heart of the Pact
Throughout her remarks, Ossété Mberi Moukietou returned to three guiding principles. She named solidarity, civic responsibility, and the active participation of women in national development as the foundations on which the Pact rests.
Each value carried a practical weight for the audience. Solidarity spoke to mutual support among women across communities. Civic responsibility framed everyday choices as contributions to the collective. Participation insisted that development is built with women, not merely for them.
By tying these ideas together, she sketched a vision in which personal commitment and public progress reinforce one another. The Pact, in this reading, is less a distant policy and more a daily practice rooted in shared obligations.
Policy Made With People, Not For Them
The executive secretary delivered a pointed message about how good governance takes shape. She argued that the most effective public policies are not conceived in offices, but in direct collaboration with the women they are meant to serve.
That statement set the tone for the gathering. It placed dialogue at the centre, suggesting that decisions gain legitimacy when those affected help to shape them. Continuous exchange, rather than top-down instruction, emerged as the working method she advocated.
She paired this call for dialogue with an insistence on mutual respect. The relationship she described was reciprocal: institutions listening closely, and women engaging fully. In her framing, respect is not a courtesy but a condition for any partnership that hopes to last.
Women of Pointe-Noire Answer the Call
The response in Pointe-Noire offered a measure of the campaign’s reach. Women from across the city’s arrondissements took part in the initiative, turning the meeting into a broad, cross-neighbourhood gathering rather than a narrow event.
Their presence signalled adherence to the project. By coming together from different districts, the participants demonstrated that the Pact’s themes resonate beyond any single community. The turnout itself became part of the message the campaign sought to convey.
A Coastal Stop With Wider Resonance
The Pointe-Noire stage forms one chapter in a larger journey. As the executive secretary continues her tour, the city’s strong participation suggests momentum for an effort built on bringing the Social Pact closer to the women it addresses.
What unfolded on the coast reflected the campaign’s central wager: that lasting development depends on women’s voices being heard, valued, and acted upon. In Pointe-Noire, that wager met an audience ready to engage with it.
