Global challenges
Social & Economic Inequality
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Enabel strives to ensure equal access to quality basic services and social protection mechanisms, to provide sustainable business opportunities and decent jobs and to address discriminating practices and gender stereotypes that are detrimental to inclusion.
We adopt a rights-based approach aiming at strengthening the capacities of duty bearers and empowering those in marginalised situations, who face the biggest barriers.
Our approach
Sustainable business opportunities and decent jobs
Enabel focuses on shaping and building inclusive markets that foster women entrepreneurship and digital entrepreneurship that empowers young entrepreneurs. We support partner countries in maximising employment impact of investments and economic growth by focussing on decent jobs for youths through technical and vocational education and training and employment promotion.
Fair and sustainable agricultural value chains
We empower small-scale producers and their organisations to capture a more significant part of added-value along the value chain. Making value chains fairer and more inclusive for every actor and particularly the weakest ones is key. Enabel also works towards equitable access and control over land as a human right.
Closing the digital divide
Enabel works on strengthening digital literacy, digital skills and digital rights awareness to ensure that the effects of the digital divide on inequality are addressed effectively. We also empower our partners to reduce the gender digital divide through projects promoting women’s political leadership, entrepreneurship and legal empowerment and the fight against gender-based violence.
Addressing conversion factors: SRHR and family planning
Many socio-cultural and environmental factors determine the degree to which people can realise their full potential. Rapid demographic growth is one of these structural problems as well as the gender divide in access to quality, affordable, accessible healthcare and jeopardises sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and adolescents. Providing for SRHR and access to quality family planning services are strong levers to change power relations that institutionalise inequality.
Education and health services and redistribution through social protection mechanisms
Equitable and affordable access to quality public services like education and health are the first redistribution measures for (fragile) countries. Investing in education, including technical and vocational education, and affordable qualitative public health facilities is crucial in reducing inequalities.
More on social & economic inequality
The world is facing huge challenges in realising the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Enabel wants to contribute with its experience and expertise in five specific domains: Peace and Security, Climate Change and the Environment, Social and Economic Inequality, Urbanisation, and Human Mobility. In our search for adapted solutions we take into account the inevitable ongoing population explosion and we strongly believe in empowering women and youths.
This brochure describes how we address social & economic inequality in our projects.
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08 June 2024
Investing in the future: 2023 – 2024 Activity report
Find out why we have to upcycle international cooperation. Why Enabel is not only a Belgian, but also a European and African agency. Find out about the starting of activities in a new country: Ukraine. About the launch of activities in the green hydrogen sector.
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07 June 2024
Shaping tomorrow’s energy landscape
The urgency of climate change is forcing us to rethink our economies. As the energy transition emerges as central in the fight against climate change, one energy vector stands out in particular: green hydrogen.
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While climate crises follow one another, the need to limit global warming to +1.5 degrees appears to be more pressing than ever.
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07 June 2024
Lake Tanganyika: an endangered ecosystem
Home to more than 4,500 animal and plant species, Lake Tanganyika is under serious threat. The Latawama project works across border to ensure a sustainable future for the region and its inhabitants.
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07 June 2024
Upcycling International Cooperation
Read Jean Van Wetter and Delphine Moralis’ foreword, taken from the 2023-2024 activity report.
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07 June 2024
Regardless of Sahel region’s instability, international cooperation remains essential
European and Belgian cooperation with Africa, which is based on a logic of solidarity, must adapt to the new global geopolitical situation.
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