ENABEL
About Company
Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges – Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality – and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,000 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.
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Background
Enabel in Uganda will be implementing a new Country portfolio 2023-2027, with funding from the Government of Belgium and the European Union. The new portfolio targets Rwenzori/Albertine, West Nile, Busoga and Central regions. The overall objective is that “Young people and women in Uganda develop into active, economically independent citizens in a sustainable society that respects human rights and ensures quality basic services’’. This will be achieved through two pillars.
The first pillar focuses on providing young people, and especially young women, with the right vocational skills and genuine opportunities to generate an income and contribute to the economy through sustainable, decent work.
Pillar two aims to ensure that the rights to safe and quality education and healthcare are more transparently ensured especially for the most in-need populations such as children, women, girls, as well as refugees and host communities. This pillar is divided into three projects namely:
