Educaid.be

09 Oct 2025

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Challenge

Dozens of organisations and individuals are active in the education and training sector in development cooperation in Belgium. Before Educaid.be was established in 2010, there was no platform for structural consultation between them. 

Educaid.be is a synergy programme of VVOB and the Association pour la Promotion de l'Education et de la Formation de l'Etranger (APEFE), who are equal partners (financially, operationally and content-wise) in its implementation. 

Goals

Belgian development organisations working on education and training create a (political) context to improve initiatives in education in programme countries in Africa, Asia and South America. 

Project Partners

APEFE, Association pour la Promotion de l’Education et de la Formation à l’Etranger
53 member organisations

Approach

Educaid.be creates a learning environment in which Belgian organisations in education and training in development cooperation create a (political) context to sustainably and structurally improve the quality and inclusive character of education with attention to digitalisation, gender, climate and decent work in programme countries in Africa, Asia and South America. 

The programme is built around three pillars: 

Developing the capacity and expertise of member organisations
Promoting complementarity and synergy between member organisations
Developing and supporting Belgian policy on education and training in development cooperation

By the end of the programme

Exchange of knowledge and good practices from the programme countries among the members, and input of external expertise leads to more efficiency, synergies and complementarity within the sector of international cooperation and thus contributes to quality and inclusive education and training with attention to digitalisation, gender, climate and decent work
Educaid.be is an active and reliable interlocutor of the Belgian government in its policymaking on quality and inclusive education and training with special attention to digitalisation, gender, climate and decent work
The platform improves the (digital) internal and external communication to strengthen and support the two other result areas