Other Trade-Related Activities - Belgium

The new Cooperation Programme 2016-2020 signed between Belgium and Morocco contains a programme that seeks to improve the employment and self-employment of women and youngsters in Morocco. Belgium contributes for 3 million EUR to the programme. It will promote the entrepreneurship of young people and females via awareness, formation and training, and the creation of incubators, using a human rights-based approach.

Mali: Inclusive economic growth is a priority in de Cooperation Programme 2016-2019 between Belgium and Mali. The Belgian Development Cooperation will strengthen the regional public institutions in ensuring the promotion of economic development in the Koulikoro area via local development in the livestock farming sector. Belgium will also support the creation of employment in Koulikoro through the reinforcement of the grassland farming and support to pastoralism in the North of Mali.