Brussels/Conakry - 27 June 2022 | Enabel launches a mobile application for Guinean youth to promote sexual and reproductive health, improve access to sexual and reproductive rights for women and young people and combat gender-based violence.

Brussels, 16 June 2022 | Today the Belgian development agency Enabel, signs the Charter for Digital Inclusion in the framework of DigitAll, a digital inclusion ecosystem bringing together companies, social organisations, federal and regional governments and administrations, with a view to creating synergies and fostering cooperation between these actors.

Brussels, 25 May 2022 - Today Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) and Enabel, the Belgian development agency, signed a cooperation agreement in the framework of the "Pilot project for entrepreneurial mobility", a labor mobility project that Enabel is launching in Senegal and Belgium.

Brussels/Vilnius, 11 May 2022 - European development cooperation organisations gathered at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius on 11-12 May at the Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation (PN). This year’s meeting marked the 15th anniversary of the network and the end of the PN co-Presidency by the Lithuanian Central Project Management Agency (CPMA) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

In the context of the Africa-EU Summit between the European Union and the African Union, which will take place in Brussels on 17 and 18 February, Belgium – together with Team Europe, the African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and African partners – is organising a high-level panel to find structural solutions for equitable access to medicines and global health care.

Thursday 3 February 2022 | The Wehubit programme of Enabel backs five new EdTech projects to support the scale-up of educational technology and thus improve the quality and continuity of teaching and learning. The total funding amounts to EUR 1,602.000 and is financed by the DIRECCT-programme of the European Union. It will fund 5 projects in Rwanda, Tanzania, Niger and in Uganda.

All 27 Ministers of Development Cooperation and Foreign Affairs of the EU have agreed on highlighting the mobilisation of public sector expertise and placing it at the core of the European Union’s external action. This approach has been fostered by the Practitioners’ Network, a platform for European Development Cooperation organisations which Enabel is part of.

Ouagadougou, 27 October 2021 | During her working visit to Burkina Faso on 26 October, Meryame Kitir, Minister of Development Cooperation and Major Cities Policy, has presented the Belgian regional climate programme for the Sahel. The Belgian development agency Enabel has been entrusted with the preparation and the implementation of the climate programme.

Kigali, 27 October 2021 | Sophie Wilmès visited Nyarugenge District Hospital today on the sidelines of the Second African Union-European Union Ministerial Meeting convened in Kigali, Rwanda. The hospital was built with Belgian funding by the Belgian development agency Enabel.

Kampala, 23 September 2021 | Belgium will deliver 153,900 vaccines to Uganda. These vaccines will contribute to stepping up the vaccination campaign for teachers and reopening schools to more than 10 million pupils and students. With this, Belgium is responding to the Ugandan government's request to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

Brussels/ Geneva, 15 September 2021 | Enabel and the International Trade Centre (ITC), signed a cooperation agreement for a new EU-funded project that will enhance the development of the beekeeping value chain in six regions in Tanzania and contribute to inclusive and sustainable economic growth in the East-African country. The project will support the production of high-quality honey produced in an environmentally sustainable manner to increase the country’s penetration in the national and international market.

Kigali, 12 August 2021 | In a bid to reduce dependency of African countries on the global supply of vaccines and facilitate access in areas where the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted shortages, Enabel, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, contributes to Rwanda’s goal of building a robust ecosystem in the biotech industry and to boost Rwanda’s readiness to manufacture vaccines and other pharmaceutical products.

Kigali, 2 July 2021 | The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have signed a funding agreement for the project “Transforming Eastern Province through adaptation” (TREPA)

Brussels, 15 June 2021 | On Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 June, Enabel, its Moroccan partners  and the Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) organise the 'Maghrib Belgium Impulse Days'.