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Trade for Development Centre

Overview

The Trade for Development Centre aims to support fair and sustainable trade and promote responsible consumption through producer support and awareness raising.

The key activities of the project are: 

  1. Producer support: MSMEs and producer organisations are professionalised, more sustainable and respectful of decent work.
  2. Strenghtening business support organisations: build know-how and tools to support companies to export to EU markets in a sustainable, decent work and human rights friendly manner.
  3. Strenghten multi-stakeholder initiatives focusing on the sustainability of value chains: (Beyond chocolate, TEI sustainable cocoa...) are strengthened through the TDC's fieldwork.
  4. Shift public perception: Citizens adopt a positive attitude towards more responsible consumption of products from intervention chains (cocoa, coffee) 

Please visit the project website or contact us to find out how this support can benefit you.

Website

Key information

Start date

April 2023

End date

December 2027

Target group(s)

Civil Society Organisations incl. CBO; Companies; Smallholders and cooperatives; Business associations; Workers; Local Communities; Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSI) partner countries/EU

Sector(s)

Agriculture, fishing, forestry

Type of initiative

Country level

Countries of intervention

Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cabo Verde; Cameroon; Central African Republic, Chad; Comoros; Congo (Republic); Côte d'Ivoire; Democratic Republic of Congo; Djibouti; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Eswatini; Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Mali; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Malawi; Rwanda; São Tomé and Príncipe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sudan; Tanzania; The Gambia; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Type(s) of support

Information and guidance on due diligence process and legal requirements; Practical tools for supply chain management, risk assessment and reporting; Global policy dialogue, international coordination and research; Industry collaboration and stakeholder engagement; Producer/supplier capacity building and empowerment; Impact investment and supply chain finance; Transparency, advocacy, and consumer awareness raising

Type(s) of contributor

EU Member State

Contributor(s)

Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

Implementing organisation(s)

Belgian agency for international cooperation (ENABEL)