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For an overview of
Belgium's
Official Development Assistance, please click here.
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The Directorate-General
for Development Cooperation (DGDC), general directorate
within the federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Foreign
Trade and Development Cooperation, is responsible for the
execution of the cooperation programmes (policy-making and
strategy planning, identification of cooperation programmes
and activities).
The implementing agency is Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC).
It is a public-law company with social purposes and has the
exclusive authority to formulate and implement Belgian direct
bilateral cooperation as a public service task. BTC
representatives in partner countries ("cooperation
attachés") are based in the Belgian embassies. They are
responsible for projects and programmes, and the contact
persons concerning project definition, implementation and
evaluation.
DGDC's cooperation programme is divided into direct (projects,
training programmes, technical assistance, financial
cooperation and debt reduction) and indirect bilateral
cooperation (see below). Multilateral activities are
undertaken in cooperation with around 20 international
organizations and the European Union (European Development
Fund).[1] |
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Belgian bilateral
assistance concentrates on the following countries and
regions:
Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina
Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia,
Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic
Republic, Lesotho, Mali, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco,
Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Palestinian Authority, Peru,
Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Swaziland, Thailand,
Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Viet Nam, South
Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Information concerning each country is available: http://www.dgdc.be
> Partner countries.
Information concerning the support of Africa and the Middle
East, Asia, and Latin America here:
http://www.dgdc.be >
Publications > Quality in Solidarity. A Partnership for
Sustainable Development > Political Note of Secretary of
State Eddy Boutmans > (Chapter 4: Geographic distribution)
Africa and the Middle East / Latin America/ Asia.
Information about BTC projects and programmes can be accessed
here: http://www.btcctb.org
> English > Countries and project. |
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Belgian development
priorities are poverty alleviation, agriculture and food
security, gender, controlling conflicts and reconstructing
peace, public health, social economy, education and training,
promotion of the private sector, basic infrastructures,
environment.[2] |
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Direct bilateral
assistance is provided within the framework of the following
key sectors: basic health care, training and education,
agriculture and food security, basic infrastructure and social
structure (including conflict prevention), and the three
sectoral themes equal opportunities for women and men,
environment and social economy. |
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The policy document
"Quality in Solidarity" outlines the Belgian
position concerning programme aid and budget aid (see also the
government's respective white paper), and states that these
cooperation modes will be extended. Still cooperation in form
of projects is more frequent than programme-based
interventions, and the transition process towards the latter
takes its time.
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One of the priority
sectors is "training and education".
Belgium offers study and training grants for students from
developing countries. Please find the corresponding
information here: http://www.dgdc.be
> Publications > Study and Training Grants for Students
from Developing Countries. |
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Belgian technical
assistance emphasizes institutional support for the definition
of education policy. Special attention lies on girls' and
women's inclusion to education and training. |
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Belgium intends to
reinforce the cooperation with NGOs further, as well as its
cooperation with the universities, the Association pour la
promotion de l'éducation et de la formation à l'étranger (APEFE)
and the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and
Technical Assistance (VVOB), scientific institutions such as
the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine (IMT) of
Antwerp, the Royal Museum of Central Africa and other
associations in partnership with public authorities. Indirect
bilateral cooperation programmes are co-financed by the DGDC,
the indirect agents prepare and execute them.
Belgium provides direct financing of organizations of the
South to the extent that they support cooperation programmes.
Please find more information including a list of recognized
NGOs here: http://www.dgdc.be
> Publications > Actors > Indirect Cooperation >
Introduction/ Recognized NGOs;
http://www.dgdc.be >
Publications > Quality in Solidarity. A Partnership for
Sustainable Development > Political Note of Secretary of
State Eddy Boutmans (1999-2003) > [Chapter 5: Channels]
Indirect actors |
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Information not
identified yet. |
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- DGCID, "Quality in
solidarity. A Partnership for Sustainable
Development", Political Note of Secretary of State
Eddy Boutmans, 1999-2003 (http://www.dgdc.be
> Publications > Quality in Solidarity. A
Partnership for Sustainable Development).
- DGCID, Government's white
paper concerning Budget Support.
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| Name |
Directorate-General
for Development Cooperation (DGDC) |
| Mailing
Address |
Federal
Public service
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development
Cooperation Belgium
Rue des Petits Carmes, 15
1000 Brussels |
| Phone |
[+32] (2) 501 81
11 |
| Website
(languages) |
http://www.dgdc.be
(Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish) |
| Name |
Belgian
Technical Cooperation Agency (BTC) |
| Street
Address |
147
Rue Haute
1000 Brussels |
| Phone |
[+32] (2) 50 53
700 |
| Fax |
[+32]
(2) 50 29 862
[+32] (2) 50 24 314 |
| E-Mail |
Email form: http://www.btcctb.org
>
English > Contact
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| Website
(languages) |
http://www.btcctb.org
(Dutch, English, French) |
For contact information
of Belgian Technical Cooperation Agency's country
representations please check http://www.btcctb.org
> English > Contact.
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Unless indicated otherwise
information concerning this chapter was taken from the Website
of the Belgian Directorate General for Development Cooperation
http://www.dgdc.be, and
Belgian Technical Cooperation agency's Website: http://www.btcctb.org,
access: 18 July 2003, and Riddell 2002, p. 22. |
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