Enabel

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Enabel is Belgium's federal development agency (formerly Coopération technique belge, CTB). Belgian official development assistance amounted to US$2.7 billion in 2022 or 0.45% of gross national income (GNI). The top recipient country was Belgium's former colony, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Enabel sits within the following system of Belgian development assistance: * The Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD) within the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Development Co-operation oversees development co-operation. The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Development Co-operation employs over 150 staff, with 24% stationed in embassies abroad. * Contributions to multilateral organizations fall under the purview of other federal public services, such as FPS Finance. * The DGD provides political guidance for specific contributions, including those to the European Commission. * Enabel executes and coordinates Belgium's international development policy. It has approximately 1,500 staff, with 88% based in country offices overseas. * The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries, Belgium's development finance institution, directly invests in private sector projects in developing and emerging economies. The agency was formerly called ( ) and renamed Enabel in 2018.…

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