News, events & resources

10 February 2022

Laying the groundwork for sustainable architecture

How does Enabel promote sustainable architecture in its partner countries? Two architects tell us more about their work in Rwanda and Burundi.

05 January 2022

Culture and creativity for the future of cities

Culture and creativity for the future of cities

05 January 2022

Evaluation of Enabel’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Enabel used the approach of ‘real-time evaluation’ to assess its response to the Covid-19 pandemic and provide the organisation with real time information on its actions, their relevance and coherence. Download the evaluation here.

16 September 2021

Enabel and CBL-ACP sign partnership agreement

Enabel and the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Belgium-Luxembourg-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (CBL-ACP) signed an agreement to strengthen their collaboration.

15 September 2021

EU, Enabel and ITC to support beekeeping value chain in Tanzania

Enabel and the International Trade Centre 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.

11 August 2021

Solar panels for drinking water

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, most households struggle to access a correct source of drinking water. But how do you solve this when there is no electricity either? Enabel tackles the problem together with local partners.

02 July 2021

Brochure on governmental cooperation programme between Uganda and Belgium

In 2013, Uganda launched an ambitious 30-year plan aimed at transforming the country into a modern and prosperous middle-income country. Enabel wants to assist the country with this endeavour.

02 July 2021

Enabel takes part in multi-stakeholder project to transform Rwanda’s Eastern Province through forests and landscapes restoration

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) with a GCF contribution of 40 million euro and an additional 18 million euro mobilized as co-financing from the Government of Rwanda and other Project Executing Entities.

17 June 2021

Covid-19 and vaccination in Africa

While emergency vaccination assistance is now a priority for Europe’s development cooperation agencies, it already comes with first steps towards future vaccine and health self-sufficiency. Belgium intends to be part in this international effort.

10 June 2021

Switching to light: Electricity access in Rwanda

Rwanda has a target of reaching 100% electricity access by 2024. The 20 stories in this booklet show how access to affordable and reliable electricity transforms the lives of people who had previously no access to electricity.

08 June 2021

Stone arch bridges in Tanzania

In rural Tanzania, it is very expensive to use industrial materials, while labour is cheap. The stone arch technology capitalises on this fact by using local materials in a labour intensive process, reducing the cost with 80%.

02 June 2021

Conceptualisation of inequality and the ex-ante equality impact assessment tool

Tackling inequalities within and between countries is an important global challenge. Enabel describes how it defines and understands inequality. We do not only focus on inequality of opportunities and outcomes, but we also give attention to inequality of process (unfair treatment and power privileges). Read the concept note.