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Making money from honey thanks to the Skills Development Fund
Hanna DEKERK | 05-12-2017
At the Nyabyeya Forestry College in Masindi, 136 students are following beekeeping courses. As most of them are enrolled fulltime in the forestry program, they consider beekeeping a class as any other. But not 20-year old Peace Nabuzale. She is one of the rare students trying to graduate as a professional...
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Communication workshop on Study and Consultancy Fund on 10/11/2017
Anh NGUYENNGOC | 29-11-2017
This successful workshop was co-chaired by MPI and BTC and it took place in the presence of the Belgian Ambassador and of the Head of the Development cooperation at the Embassy. The 60 participants from different Ministries, Government Institutions, Universities and Provincial Departments, received...
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Training of graduates to conduct public surveys to evaluate BTC's projects
Laura SCHILLEMANS | 27-11-2017
The Belgian Development Agency is preparing a public survey to assess the citizens’ perception about the changes brought by the LGRDP (Local Government Reform and Development Program) and RHC (Regeneration of Historic Centers) projects. The results of the survey, that will be finalized by March ...
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Entrepreneurship Awareness and Boot Camps in Gaza
Laura SCHILLEMANS | 27-11-2017
The Business Startups Incubators Support (BSIS) Project in Palestine, funded by EU and implemented by the Belgian Development Agency (BTC), organized “Entrepreneurship Awareness and Boot Camps” at the Business and Technology Incubator of the Islamic University in Gaza. The objective...
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Skills Development Fund builds construction training
Hanna DEKERK | 21-11-2017
At 6pm trainees of the Building and Construction training at Buhimba Technical College in Hoima are still rehearsing their brick-laying skills. “We keep practicing because we all want to succeed our exam.”, says Claire Murungi, one of the 30 trainees subsidized by the Skills Development Fund (SDF...
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Global Entrepreneurship week in Palestine
Laura SCHILLEMANS | 20-11-2017
Islamic Relief Palestine and the Belgian Development Agency organized an advocacy event named “To be the change… Towards Entrepreneurship”, in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) and the Ministry of Labor (MoL). The event aimed at providing a group of TVET...
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Et pourquoi une toilette dans mon école ?
Meriem HILALI | 20-11-2017
Au Maroc, la majorité des écoles rurales sont souvent sous-équipées et sont dépourvues notamment d’eau potable et de système d’assainissement. À peine 50% des écoles ont accès à des infrastructures sanitaires. En 2010, la coopération belge a fourni son appui au projet national de mise à niveau...
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Health Sector Working Group Field Visits
Alexis DE HERDE | 20-11-2017
Between 24th and 26th October members of the Health Sector Working Group, including BTC and the Embassy of Belgium, conducted joint field visits to the Districts of Nyabihu, Gicumbi and Bugesera with a special focus on Family Planning, Nutrition and Hygiene.The visits were led by the Director General...
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Electrification in Rwamagana
Alexis DE HERDE | 20-11-2017
“We have set our targets but we will have to stretch them in the future. Our general target is to connect all Rwandans by 2024” said recently the CEO of Rwanda Energy Group, Eng. Ron Weiss.Access to electricity in Rwanda is one of the key targeted development boosters of the Government. The current ...
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Skills Development Fund uplifts welding training
Hanna DEKERK | 20-11-2017
With meticulous concentration students are welding doors and windows at the St-Simon Peter Vocational Training Centre in Hoima. Here, the Skills development Fund (SDF) of the Support to Skilling Uganda project subsidizes a 9-month basic welding and metal fabrication program for 18 trainees. 20-year...
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Le Programme de Désenclavement au Kasaï-Oriental et au Lomami: fer de lance pour booster l’agriculture et la dynamisation du secteur
Julie CLAASSENS | 14-11-2017
Le PRODEKOR, dont l’objectif global consiste au désenclavement des bassins de production en vue d’une relance de l’agriculture et d’une sécurité alimentaire, a comme objectif spécifique la mise en place d’un réseau multimodal praticable en toutes saisons et entretenu par des structures locales. D’un...
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Le Kasaï Oriental et le Lomami, deux provinces productrices d’huile de palme demain?
Julie CLAASSENS | 14-11-2017
Les perspectives s'annoncent bonnes, depuis que l'Agence Belge de Développement, CTB RD Congo, à travers le programme d'appui au développement agricole du Kasaï Oriental, PRODAKOR, s'est impliqué dans la promotion de la culture du palmier à huile.En effet, le palmier à huile est l'une des cultures retenues...
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Exchange between South African Ministry of Finance and Universities on Public Financing Management (PFM)
Princia BAZABIDILA-MONASSALA | 13-11-2017
On Friday 20 October 2017, thirty Directors of South Africa’s Ministry of Finance, mostly from the National Treasury, visited BTC on the last day of their training session on Public Financing Management for a review of the training session. This Brussels study tour from 7 to 22 October 2017 was ...
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Skills Development Fund empowers women through bead-making
Hanna DEKERK | 13-11-2017
The Amaani Rwenzori youth development center in Fort Portal offers a second chance to school drop-outs or to those were unable to pay school fees. Here, 19 vulnerable women and girls follow pottery classes thanks to the Skills Development Fund (SDF) of BTC’s Support to Skilling Uganda project. 24...
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Digitalization for Development: computer skills for refugees
Josephine OMUNYIDDE | 13-11-2017
The excitement on the faces of students at the animated motions and sound coming out of the computers is astounding. This happens to be a first-time experience for students of Lokopio Hills Vocational Training Institute (VTI) in Bidi-bidi refugee settlement in Uganda to learn coding using an easy to...