Since 2016, Incub’Ivoir has positioned itself as a provider of support to entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire. However, they needed to position themselves better in this sector and find a better business model. The TDC coaches were able to lend their support in these crucial stages.
This report collects the main activities and impact of the Trade for Development Centre programme between 2018 and 2022. Some remarkable results TDC supported 49 MSMEs and 8 Business Support Organisations with coaching in business management and/or marketing. Another 39 MSMEs also received a week of training in ‘data capturing’. The turnover of the African […]
Respondents’ perceptions of society: Compared to 2022 and 2020, all the issues assessed seem to be of slightly less concern, with rising energy and raw material prices clearly taking precedence over other issues such as pollution, health and personal well-being. Rising energy and raw material prices, purchasing power and health are the top three concerns […]
On the night of 6 December, after more than nine hours of negotiations, the European Union’s trilogue (Parliament, Commission and Council) reached a provisional agreement to ban imports of several commodities if they are produced from land deforested after December 2020. An initial list of six products was initially proposed by the Commission in […]
GEL Sud Benin, or Local Economy Office (LEO) South Benin, represented by its General Manager Geoffroy Mele, received support from two TDC coaches until the end of 2022. Isabelle Van Pachterbeke is one of these coaches. She is in charge of financial and organisational aspects. Let’s take a look back at a highly educational experience. […]
The two initiatives, Make Belgium a Fair Trade Country and Fair Trade Municipalities, aim to promote fair trade in Belgium, at both national and local levels. They have joined forces to work with the different regions of the country, and so Make Brussels-Capital a Fair Trade Region.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre (TDC) wants to strengthen advocacy for sustainable, inclusive production and consumption that respects decent work in various African countries. This is why it plans to support the organisation national ethical, sustainable, fair trade or organic farming days or weeks.
Call for Applications targeting MSMEs with a social purpose or producers’ organisations to benefit from a coaching in sustainability and decent work; a coaching in financial and business management; a coaching in marketing and sales management.
Call for Proposal in 2 phases targeting MSMEs with a social purpose or producers’ organisations for the implementation of a strategy and/or an action plan to become more sustainable and more respectful of decent income and decent work.
April 27th, Yeyasso, Fairtrade Belgium, Galler Chocolaterie and Enabel’s TDC organised a webinar on the living income gap in the cocoa sector. Measuring this gap between the real household incomes of producers and what is considered a decent income is really important. It can also be a tool to better define policies to support producers, by cooperatives of other stakeholders.
