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An investment in education is an investment in people!
The current situation does not look promising: an economic crisis, several conflicts, rising inequality, a climate crisis, etc. After the...
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Menstruation should become a source of pride
Millions of women around the world cannot afford sanitary pads. In addition, they often receive inadequate education about menstrual hygiene...
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Eradication of sleeping sickness several steps closer
In 2017, Belgium and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) decided to jointly take the lead in eradicating sleeping sickness on the...
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A holistic approach to reducing poverty
'If you become a widow here, you become a beggar,' says Ziraji, a Congolese mother of five and a participant in the five-year Ŝanĝo...
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The Annual Report 2021 of Belgian Development Cooperation
The 2021 annual report on Belgian Development Cooperation is available in digital format. This annual report fulfils the legal obligation to...
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Belgium is committed to a living income
Belgium joins the Netherlands and Germany in signing the joint declaration on living wage and living income. Only when smallholders also...
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More CO2 for tropical forests
Tropical forests are gradually losing their capacity to capture carbon. If action is not taken soon, forests could emit carbon by 2035. This...
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Wehubit: towards a digital social innovation network
Two and a half years after its launch, the Wehubit programme of the Belgian Development Agency Enabel is supporting 18 digital projects in...
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Vietnam : A certification method accessible to small-scale agricultural producers
Producing healthy fruits and vegetables, a necessity for consumers and producers The context Various food security scandals have occurred in...
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Human Rights and Digitisation, a winning combination for Belgium
Funding projects relating to the issue of digitisation and human rights is a priority for Belgium. At the European level, our country is...
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Rebuilding Gaza with Minecraft
Meeting, relaxing, taking a break in clean green spaces that are open to all... It seems so obvious from here, yet in some parts of the...
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Improved professional skills thanks to virtual reality in Uganda
In remote areas of Uganda, the limited number of businesses is often an obstacle to the introduction of work-based training. In order to...
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Videos to combat mass crimes
In 2017, Belgium financed a unique project initiated by TRIAL International in eastern DRC: promoting the use of photo and video evidence to...
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Finally, justice for the little Kavumu girls who were raped!
In the village of Kavumu, near Bukavu, dozens of families experienced the unspeakable: young girls abducted in the night, raped and left in...
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The use of drones in humanitarian contexts Belgium at the forefront
Belgium and the World Food Program (WFP) are conducting a pilot project on drones, or UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to promote their use...
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She Decides: she decides and that's how it should be!
The She Decides initiative, launched in February 2017, brings together stakeholders who are working together so that aid organisations in...
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In Rwanda, money for honey
Through conditions of high population density involving extreme scarcity of arable land and with economic conditions driven by agriculture...
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Building self-esteem: school drop-out for girls in Niger
In Niger, barely 64 % of the girls are attending school. In 2012, the literacy rate for women was only 18.2 % compared to 40.2 % for men...
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Motorcycle ambulances to save lives
Democratic Republic of Congo, Kwilu Province, Mosango health district Saving lives with moto-ambulances Some rather unusual vehicles have...
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