Enabel
HeadquartersMarollen, Brussels
Director-general
Heidy Rombouts
Websiteenabel.be

Enabel is the Belgian development agency (formerly Coopération technique belge, CTB).

Belgian official development assistance amounted to US$2.7 billion in 2022 or 0.45% of gross national income (GNI). This included The top recipient country was Belgium's former colony, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

Enabel sits within the following system of Belgian development assistance:

  • The Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD) within the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Development Co-operation oversees development co-operation. The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Development Co-operation employs over 150 staff, with 24% stationed in embassies abroad.
  • Contributions to multilateral organizations fall under the purview of other federal public services, such as FPS Finance.
  • The DGD provides political guidance for specific contributions, including those to the European Commission.
  • Enabel executes and coordinates Belgium's international development policy. It has approximately 1,500 staff, with 88% based in country offices overseas.
  • The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries, Belgium's development finance institution, directly invests in private sector projects in developing and emerging economies.[2]

The agency was formerly called Agence belge de développement CTB (Coopération Technique Belge) and renamed Enabel in 2018.[3]

The agency's name plays on the English verb ‘to enable’, reflecting its priorities:

  • increasing people's resilience,
  • enabling development,
  • bringing together its partners.

The chair of the board of directors is Delphine Moralis and Heidy Rombouts is the director-general.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Home". www.oecd-ilibrary.org. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  2. ↑ "Development Co-operation Profiles. Belgium". www.oecd-ilibrary.org. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  3. ↑ Belgique. Service public fédéral. Affaires étrangères, Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement. "Rapport annuel 2017" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Management & control bodies". Enabel - Belgian Development Agency |. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
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