With its ‘Bite to Fight’ range of chocolates, Oxfam Fair Trade aims to reduce the gap that all too often still exists between cocoa farmers’ real income and a fair and decent income.
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
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.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre coaches producer cooperatives and Business support organisations (BSO’s) in business management, finance and marketing. The TDC has also started to support cooperatives in calculating the living income gap in producers’ households.
The Trade for Development Centre (TDC) wants to increase its impact. That’s why it’s not limiting itself to directly supporting cooperatives in the South. The TDC also assists ‘business support organisations’, which in turn support other organisations locally. We zoom in on this lesser-known, but no less effective form of support.
For many years now, we’ve known that the way we consume has negative consequences on both people and planet. The 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than 1,100 people working for major clothing brands, shone a light on the appalling working conditions in sweatshops. On 27 September 2022, Enabel’s TDC hosted a conference on ethical clothing, followed by a fashion show. The event was attended by more than 150 people. The debates focused on two key questions: Have working conditions in the textile industry improved since the collapse of Rana Plaza? And is Made in Europe a guarantee of decent work?
With its ‘Bite to Fight’ range of chocolates, Oxfam Fair Trade aims to reduce the gap that all too often still exists between cocoa farmers’ real income and a fair and decent income.
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
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.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre coaches producer cooperatives and Business support organisations (BSO’s) in business management, finance and marketing. The TDC has also started to support cooperatives in calculating the living income gap in producers’ households.
The Trade for Development Centre (TDC) wants to increase its impact. That’s why it’s not limiting itself to directly supporting cooperatives in the South. The TDC also assists ‘business support organisations’, which in turn support other organisations locally. We zoom in on this lesser-known, but no less effective form of support.
For many years now, we’ve known that the way we consume has negative consequences on both people and planet. The 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than 1,100 people working for major clothing brands, shone a light on the appalling working conditions in sweatshops. On 27 September 2022, Enabel’s TDC hosted a conference on ethical clothing, followed by a fashion show. The event was attended by more than 150 people. The debates focused on two key questions: Have working conditions in the textile industry improved since the collapse of Rana Plaza? And is Made in Europe a guarantee of decent work?
