News, events & resources

15 February 2023

Is climate change adaptation all about water?

On 25 and 26 April, Enabel invites you to join its debate on Climate Change adaptation and water in its office in Brussels or online.

1 February 2023

Ruminant livestock in Mali: Nana Sangaré Dembélé’s story

To alleviate more and more frequent crop failures, Mali and its partner countries have looked for techniques that can be adopted by agro-pastoralists. Fattening is one of the techniques favoured by the interested parties. Nana shares how she is using this technique and how it offers her a more stable income.

31 January 2023

Domestic biogas, a sustainable energy solution tested in Niger

In Niger, more than 90% of households use wood as fuel for cooking. To help preserve the environment, Enabel is experimenting with the production of domestic biogas with 10 agropastoralist households in the villages of Nawdéo and Rounto Tanda in the Dosso region. Read the story.

25 January 2023

Result of the Strategic Evaluation TVET & Employment

The results of the Strategic Evaluation in the field of TVET & Employment were presented on Wednesday 21 December to an attentive audience of Enabel colleagues and our external networks (SES, DGD, APEFE, via Don Bosco, Educaidbe, ETM, AUF, E-duForm, …). Recommendations on the effectiveness, relevance, sustainability, equality (gender, inclusion), digitalisation and quality of our monitoring systems were presented and widely discussed.

24 January 2023

#ClimatEducaid22 conference – Recommendations

On 20 and 21 October 2022, Educaid.be organised a hybrid conference on education and climate change. We could count on the support of the Belgian government, VVOB – education for development, APEFE, Enabel, UNICEF Belgium and IFEF (Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la Formation)/OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) as an external partner.

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…