Jean Van Wetter
banner
jeanvanwetter.bsky.social
Jean Van Wetter
@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social
CEO of Enabel, the Belgian Agency for International Cooperation
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
📢 We're proud to launch "Equity in Action", our new gender equality & inclusion strategy!
Tackling barriers, empowering women & fostering inclusive leadership for fairer, resilient societies.
Check it out👉 t.ly/OOiFX
📅 Launch event: 17 Dec, Brussels.
@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
⚡Et si le pétrole devenait un levier de la transition énergétique africaine ?
🗣️ @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social : «Ne plus opposer fossile & renouvelable, mais bâtir un modèle fondé sur la finance climatique & des partenariats d’égal à égal.»
👉 À lire sur @forbes.com Afrique: t.ly/ujhTy
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🌍 How can Europe scale up impactful investments in Africa’s green energy transition?
Today, Enabel & Sida joined forces to discuss solutions
with 100+ key actors from @ec.europa.eu institutions, Member States & the private sector.
👉 More info: t.ly/YD_7a

@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social
Enabel organises high-level event on energy investments in Africa - Enabel - Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation
Enabel and Swedish agency Sida organise a high-level event on the means to enable impactful investments in Africa's green energy transition.
t.ly
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🌍Climate change has no borders.
At Africa Climate Summit in Addis Abeba, Enabel will:
⚡Support Africa’s energy transition
🌱Work with partners to unlock financing & innovation for climate-resilient economies
🔗 Read more in the interview with @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social : t.ly/DSsDO
September 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🌍 Last week, at the #RotaryFusionSummit in Brussels, @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social shared Enabel’s vision for rethinking international cooperation - placing civil society and people-to-people partnerships at the heart of global change. 🤝
#EnablingChange
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🇮🇹 At the end of last week’s visit to Rome for #URC2025, @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social met representatives of Rome -based UN agencies - FAO, IFAD & WFP - to boost partnerships on:
🌱Food systems
💡Climate resilience
📦Value chains
🤝Private sector
Exciting times ahead for impactful collaboration!
July 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🚀 At #FfD4 in Sevilla, the #PractitionersNetwork launches a joint statement for impactful & innovative international cooperation.
Enabel, as co-chair of the network and
@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social calls for stronger bridges between policy, practice & finance.
Read the full statement 👉 t.ly/5TFPZ
July 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🌍 The #FFD4 Conference in #Seville has recently ended. 💰
Did it bring real change for intl. cooperation?
@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social calls for moving beyond “donor-beneficiary” logic towards collective investments in shared challenges. 🤝
👉 Read his insights: t.ly/1WJiK
FFD4 Sevilla: Enabel advocates renewed architecture for international cooperation - Enabel - Belgian Development Agency |
FFD4 Sevilla: Enabel advocates renewed architecture for international cooperation
t.ly
July 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
📚 At #URC2025 in Rome, @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social nvanwetter spoke on the #Education Panel, sharing how Enabel is supporting Ukraine rebuild its future: restoring schools, ensuring safe shelters and delivering 300+ generators to keep classes running during power shortages, so learning never stops.⚡
July 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
Gaza lies in ruins: schools, hospitals, basic services are destroyed. Enabel is reactivating its presence to support urgent needs: care, education, debris removal & jobs - alongside local and international partners.
🔗More in our Activity Report 👉 t.ly/kiqmC

@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social
Supporting Gaza’s Future: Reconstruction and Resilience  - Enabel - Belgian Development Agency |
Enabel supports Gaza’s reconstruction with local partners, focusing on education, health, debris management, and economic relief.
t.ly
May 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🌍 At the Annual General Assembly in Vienna, Belgium & Sweden, through Enabel and Sida launched their 2025–2026 Co-Presidency of the Practitioners Network. 🇧🇪🤝🇸🇪
Together, we’ll strengthen European cooperation for global impact.
#TeamEurope
April 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
📢 Our 2024-2025 report - Shaping tomorrow, today - is out!
🌍 Rebuilding Ukraine & Gaza, fighting desertification, boosting climate science, sustainable mobility & entrepreneurship - see how Enabel acts for change.
👉 All this and much more: t.ly/tT3Vt
May 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
✈️ Boarding now for Lake Tanganyika!
Since May 1, a documentary on this Central African jewel is screened on #BrusselsAirlines flights for a year.
With EU support, it spotlights Enabel’s LATAWAMA project. 🌍
🎬 Watch it onboard - or right here: bit.ly/3UHisAm
May 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Jean Van Wetter (Enabel): "La coopération est aussi un élément de défense de l'Union européenne"
www.lalibre.be/economie/dec...
Jean Van Wetter (Enabel): "La coopération est aussi un élément de défense de l'Union européenne"
L'invité Eco | La coalition Arizona a coupé à hauteur de 25 % le budget d'Enabel, l'Agence belge de développement. "C'est une opportunité de se réinventer", explique Jean Van Wetter, patron d'Enabel d...
www.lalibre.be
April 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🎙️ L’Europe et l’Afrique ont besoin l’une de l’autre.
À l’heure où les équilibres mondiaux évoluent, leur partenariat doit évoluer : plus équilibré, plus fort.
@jeanvanwetter.bsky.social en parle sans détour avec le Madiba Club de la Solvay School.
🎥 À voir ici 👉 t.ly/WqbcT
April 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
Alongside Belgian Ambassador Caroline Vermeulen, @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social, met with:
🔹 Fatou Haidara (UNIDO) — incl. a new skills & jobs partnership: 🔗 t.ly/fWFPL
🔹 Najat Mokhtar (IAEA)
🔹 Bob Van den Berghe & @Bo Mathiasen (UNODC)
🔹 Michael Spindelegger (ICMPD)
April 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
L'Europe a besoin de l'Afrique et l'Afrique a besoin de l'Europe. Alors que les cartes géopolitiques mondiales se redessinent, je suis concaincu qu'il faut encore davantage renforcer notre partenariat #enablingchange
youtu.be/D70vttBofUs?...
[EXCLUSIF] Jean Van Wetter révèle les non-dits de la coopération entre l’Europe et l’Afrique| ENABEL
YouTube video by Madiba Club
youtu.be
April 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
We were pleased to visit @enabel.be's Innovation Hub last week, as 23 of these projects gathered in Kampala for an Innovation Bootcamp.

The Hub is @enabel.be's key open innovation mechanism to scout and support scalable social innovations.

More: www.enabel.be/what-we-do/o...
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🛫 Boarding now for impactful change!
Enabel & @brusselsairlines.bsky.social join forces to bring economic & international cooperation closer.
Together we’ll connect people, cultures & economies — boosting skills, jobs & trade.
More info 👉 t.ly/yWitK
Enabel and Brussels Airlines conclude partnership agreement - Enabel - Belgian Development Agency |
The aim of the agreement is to develop partnership opportunities in transport, tourism and trade by exchanging knowledge and know-how
t.ly
April 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🤝 Stronger together, from Warsaw to the world!
This week, @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social joined the EU Directors General for International Cooperation under the Polish EU Presidency - representing #PractitionersNetwork and voicing how we can build stronger, smarter international partnership.
April 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🔄 From solo innovator to an organisation-wide innovation strategy 💡

in Dutch: www.nidolab.be/nl/artikels/...

in French: www.nidolab.be/fr/articles/...

@enabel.be @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
Missed our last newsletter ? t.ly/Azt9r
💜 Rights, equality, empowerment: International Women's Day 2025
🌱 Cultivating resilience in Mauritania

📫 Not signed up to our newsletter yet? We got you covered: bit.ly/3dSeAnk
April 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
💪🌍 Strengthening partnerships is essential for tackling global health challenges. We met with @enabel.be to discuss how our collaboration can continue to thrive. It was a pleasure to exchange insights with @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social & Evelien Masschelein 🤝 @otuncalp.bsky.social & Wouter Boesman.
April 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Jean Van Wetter
🎙️ De Deloitte au Cambodge, en passant par la Chine et la Tanzanie… @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social retrace un parcours guidé par la liberté, l’audace et l’engagement.
Un échange authentique à découvrir en intégralité dans le podcast #SousLeTipi.
🎧 A écouter sans modération: t.ly/ouqG1
March 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
In the critical moments we are experiencing, we must take responsibility and act. I will be happy to participate to the #GlobalCitizenNOW summit next month to take action to revive a new ambitious global cooperation agenda. Get involved:
lnkd.in/e4X9BHea
#enablingchange
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM