First of all, I believe that a cooperative approach to international aid is absolutely necessary before anything else. Canada must not be all alone: all international players must be involved. If no comprehensive strategy provides us with the power to negotiate and put pressure on the DRC government, the effort will be disjointed and will not work.
Throughout the process, training can help, but as we at Amnesty International are asking, the victims must first be protected. Until they are protected, they won't dare file complaints. The victims have to be protected, as well as the defenders who protect those victims. So the local organizations must be helped. Magistrates and judges must also be trained so that they can become independent. The laws must be reformed. In a military tribunal, a judge cannot try an individual whose rank is higher than his own. So people are obviously appointed generals just before a trial, and so it is impossible to try them.
The laws must be reformed and more power must be given to civilian authorities. You need numbers in order to secure that power in the DRC. Prisons have to be built, centres where living conditions are decent, but from which no one can escape. Lastly and above all, there is restitution for the victims. When the Congolese government is responsible for a woman, for example, who has to feed a number of children, who needs those resources and for whom those resources are vital for her reintegration, the compensation has to be tangible and must come in the form of money paid to her as reparations.