News, events & resources

20 January 2023

Enabel promotes women entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East

At the initiative of Belgium’s Minister of Development Cooperation and Major Cities, Enabel has launched the Awa Prize. With this award, Belgium aims to reward promising initiatives by women entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East and promote women’s leadership.

18 January 2023

Benin: women growing pineapples improve their business skills and household incomes

In Benin, we support a women’s empowerment initiative for women entrepreneurs active in the pineapple value chain, to help them overcome the difficulties surrounding their business and take it to the next level.

12 January 2023

5 key takeaways of the first #EnablingTheFuture event

On 15 December Enabel organised the first edition of #EnablingTheFuture at its Brussels office. This hybrid event gathered 150 people from the social innovation scene in both the global south and the north, aiming at joint action and investment in innovation to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

19 December 2022

2023-2027 Cooperation Programme between Belgium and DR Congo focuses on youth and women

On 19 December 2022, Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a new Cooperation Programme investing in the future of Congolese youth and women. Besides projects that accompany students in primary education, vocational training and young people in decent work and entrepreneurship, the programme also focuses on making health care accessible, also financially, and on fighting sexual violence.

14 December 2022

#EnablingChange: Activity report 2021 – 2022

#EnablingChange: Activity report 2021 – 2022

14 December 2022

Setting up a business in your host country: Solange’s success story

In 2017, Solange Njiojep Kappa left Cameroon and joined her husband, who had emigrated to Morocco ten years before. With the assistance of the Amuddu project she soon established her own business. Read her story

13 December 2022

Join our team in DR Congo!

Enabel is looking for staff for its projects in DR Congo. The various profiles we are looking for include project managers, gender experts and experts in agriculture, vocational training and health care as well as administrative, financial, logistical and many other functions…

7 December 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.

7 December 2022

Culture and creativity for the future of cities

Culture and creativity for the future of cities

7 December 2022

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.

5 December 2022

AU-EU D4D Hub launches new knowledge sharing platform “D4D Access”

The African Union – European Union (AU-EU) Digital for Development (D4D) Hub project – of which Enabel is an implementing partner – has launched a new online platform aimed at facilitating exchanges of experiences and knowledge between African and European digital actors.

5 December 2022

Enabel’s Gender Strategy 2019-2023

The empowerment of women concerns women gaining power and control over their own lives. With our gender strategy (2019-2023) we try to reinforce this. Read more.