The agency - Enabel - Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation

Enabel is the Belgian agency for international cooperation. With our partners, we develop ideas and implement projects addressing urgent global challenges, such as climate change, social and economic inequalities, demographic trends, peace and security.

We have over 25 years’ experience in areas ranging from education, health care and social protection, food systems, environmental protection and biodiversity, economic development and employment, financial and administrative governance…

The Belgian government, the European Union, several financial partners, the governments of other countries and the private sector call on Enabel’s expertise. We also work with public departments, research institutes and civil society organisations to enable meaningful social change.

With over 2,500 staff, Enabel manages more than 200 projects in more than twenty countries, in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Our identity

Vision

We build a sustainable world where women and men live under the rule of law and are free to thrive. We are a European player enhancing the impact of Belgium in international development.
As a knowledge centre, we think and act in terms of strategy and policy influence to promote sustainable development.
We source network expertise in an agile and responsive manner to implement sustainable development initiatives which are in line with the priorities of Belgium and the objectives of our partners.

Mission

Enabel is the agency for international cooperation of the Belgian federal government, implementing Belgium’s international development policy. Under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we carry out public service assignments in Belgium and abroad.
We provide customised expertise, including Belgian public expertise, we promote the involvement of all partners and we pursue top-level partnerships. Enabel also enhances the impact of Belgium in international development by carrying out assignments for Belgian and international third-party commissioners.

Values

Commitment: We are committed and determined to achieving our personal missions as well as to contributing to the execution of our organisation’s missions.

Respect: We respect the identity and dignity of each individual, we cherish diversity and respect the know-how, work and ideas of our partners, commissioners and colleagues.

Sense of responsibility: We are acutely aware of our social responsibility and want to contribute to eliminating poverty and to building a fair world.

Integrity: In everything we do, at all levels and without any personal advantage, we show dignity, trustworthiness, sincerity, and honesty.

Our Strategy

Team Belgium & Team Europe

Enabel is the key partner of the Belgian government in implementing its international cooperation policy. As an important actor in Belgium’s Foreign Affairs policy, Enabel plays an active role in the integration of various Belgian instruments.

Preferred partner

The distinct approach adopted by Enabel makes it a preferred partner of partner country governments, institutions and civil society. Enabel’s comparative advantages lie in its flexibility, its neutrality, its network, its local expertise, its human-centred impact, its innovation and its capacity to bridge the gap between actions at the local level, the national level and the international level.

Leverage results

Our portfolio has progressively expanded to reach an annual 500 million euros, of which at least 50% originates with the Belgian State, thus significantly strengthening Belgium’s contribution to international development.

Offer leading expertise

Enabel has developed expertise that is recognised worldwide and offers client-oriented solutions and support
in response to the major challenges encountered in Africa, Europe and the Middle East in 5 domains, namely: peace and security, climate change, urbanisation, social and economic inequality, and human mobility.

Explore new ventures

Enabel successfully evolved away from the traditional development aid system and the North-South paradigm to a new paradigm by pro-actively searching for new financing models which do not solely limit to grants. Besides traditional donors, partner country governments, private businesses and large foundations are among our clients.

Be a model organisation

Thanks to our diverse, competent, loyal, accountable and motivated international team, we are a cradle of entrepreneurship and innovation and a modern and future-proof organisation.

2030 Strategy

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More information on the legal framework we operate within, our management and control bodies.

Management & control bodies

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Learn more about our integrity policy or contact our integrity desk.

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Evaluation at Enabel

We sign strategic partnerships with the public and private sector as well as with civil society organisations. These partnerships allow us to share knowledge and experiences and to mobilise Belgian and international expertise in various sectors, topics, regions, etc.