Trade for Development Centre is a programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency.

Trade for Development Centre

Trade for Development Centre is a programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency.

We believe that fair and sustainable trade are a way to decrease poverty. It gives smallholders in the South the opportunity to develop in a sustainable way. We work around three main themes: producer support, sharing information and raising awareness.

News

Here you will find our most recent publications in order of appearance. The last published will be in the front.

Articles (en)

Call for applications coaching

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.

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Articles (en)

Call for proposals grants

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.

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Articles (en)

Webinar: the living income gap in the cocoa sector

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. 

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Articles (en)

TDC and the living income gap

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.

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Articles (en)

Coaching the coaches, TDC does that too 

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.

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