UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessment aims to provide a better understanding of the underlying challenges facing the DRC and to help identify and develop promising opportunities to support sustainable economic reconstruction and national peacebuilding. While this report does not lay out a new development pathway for the DRC, it does hope to galvanise and inform the ongoing debate between the Congolese and their partners on environmentally sustainable development planning, employment creation, governance reforms and options for leveraging necessary funding.