Together with our partner countries we invest in skills development, improved infrastructure and an educational system which is adjusted to labour market needs. Enabel believes in the need for good governance and up-to-date fiscal and legal frameworks to provide a conducive environment for private sector investments.

Strengthening value chains means supporting everyone involved in production, from the farmer who grows pineapples, to the small enterprise collecting them, the medium enterprise cleaning and packing the fruit, the enterprise providing solutions to packaging or shipping or the plant processing the pineapples into juice or the outlet selling the end product to an individual. We assist our partners to professionalise producers’ organisations and improve product quality, to enhance management capacities and gain better access to markets. In Senegal, for example, Enabel supports the development of agro-industrial infrastructure . In Burkina Faso, we promote sustainable entrepreneurship in order to encourage the emergence and consolidation of small and medium-sized businesses in the green economy, agribusiness and small-scale production. In Guinea, we focus on inclusive firms in various growth sectors such as telecommunications and crafts. We support Rwanda’s efforts to develop the poultry and pork value chains, by attracting private investments on the one hand and helping family production to professionalise on the other. In Benin our primary focus is on the pineapple value chain as well as the cashew industry.

Enabel supports innovative business opportunities and integrates a digital and green economy component to its projects. In Benin and Senegal for example, we help professionalise incubators that support digital or digitally enabled start-ups in the country. The Trade for Development Centre provides coaching and direct business development support to producers and cooperatives involved in fair trade. As we believe in Digital for Development, Wehubit funds D4D initiatives piloted by non-profit organisations, the public sector, or the private sector in our partner countries to support scaling-up and replication of successful D4D initiatives.