- Who are we ?
Discover Skills4Aid
Skills4aid is a Non-Governmental Organization founded in Belgium in 2019, dedicated to improving the technical and organizational skills of Civil Society Organizations. In 2024, in order to maximize its direct and sustainable impact on vulnerable people, Skills4aid has decided to focus its efforts on displaced people, those returned to their regions of origin, and host communities in Africa. Today, Skills4aid focuses on economic empowerment by providing technical and financial support to Civil Society Organizations and African cooperatives that develop Income Generating Activities (IGAs) for the benefit of vulnerable populations. In addition, we recently created the African NGO Skills4aid in Côte d'Ivoire to get closer to our beneficiaries.
More than 60% of the world's poor live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Poverty is one of the root causes of irregular migration.
Your support changes lives
Skills4aid plays a crucial role in poverty reduction and improving the living conditions of displaced persons, returnees and host communities, with particular emphasis on women, youth and persons with disabilities.
- Our Mission
Unlocking Africa's potential
Imagine an Africa where every individual has the means to achieve their aspirations, every community thrives, and poverty is reduced every day. This is precisely our mission: to help people break free from poverty, build sustainable economies, and strengthen local capacities for a better future. Developing Income Generating Activities (IGAs) using new technologies creates jobs, reduces disaster risks, and builds resilience.
Together, let's build a stronger and more equitable Africa.
There are more than 120 million people in the world who have been uprooted, having fled persecution, violence or conflict.
- How to act?
Key actions
By investing in projects including AGR, Skills4aid directly contributes to reducing poverty and improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable populations.
- What do we do?
How can SKILLS4AID help you?
Evaluation and due diligence
Organizational self-assessment and due diligence of each local partner organization.
Financing and donations of materials
Skills4aid supports local partner organisations in the process of obtaining funding. Skills4aid mobilises money and donates materials and equipment to start or improve IGAs.
Market access
Better access to national and international markets allows farmers to reliably sell more, better quality products for a higher price.
Organizational support
Investing in strengthening the organizational capacities of cooperatives and local organizations helps increase their effectiveness, impact and sustainability in pursuing their missions and activities.
Technical support
Skills4aid encourages a culture of innovation and invests in training in new technologies to improve the quality of AGR
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Market access
Better access to national and international markets allows farmers to reliably sell more, better quality products for a higher price.
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Discover the Projects
Economic empowerment and resilience projects in Cameroon
Our projects aim to strengthen local structures, empower refugee and displaced women, and thus make them more resilient in the face of crises.
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- Testimonials
Your Opinions Matter to Us
It is an honor for ACDIEF to be part of the Skills4aid platform which has allowed us to exchange with other organizations, to benefit from practical training for the institutional and technical strengthening of its team and to have better visibility of its actions. ACDIEF.
Our integration into the pan-African Skills4aid network facilitates interactions with other African CSOs, thus promoting enriching exchanges of experiences. The increased visibility offered by Skills4Aid allows AGIR RDC to share its interventions with network members, thus amplifying their impacts and scope.
Education For All expresses its deep gratitude to the initiators of the Skills4aid platform. It has enabled us to strengthen our institutional capacities through webinars and coaching sessions. Skills4aid has increased our visibility by connecting us with several other organizations around the world. Thanks to Skills4aid, local organizations in Africa are getting their heads above water. Many thanks to Skills4aid.
My name is Isaac MUCHIGA, Head of Office of the NGO PADC in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, happy to be a member of the Skills4Aid platform. Thanks to your coaching sessions, we have just received a grant from PARP3 under funding from the European Union for a period of 6 months. We will never give up Skills4Aid because we have good projects for Africa. Together we can change things!
My name is Abraham HOPEFULSON TCHAOBE, President of the NGO HURDA, happy to be a member of the Skills4aid platform. It is one of the best platforms, it offers several opportunities to CSOs in Africa in several areas. Skills4aid strengthens our capacities, makes us more operational and autonomous. I really like the Skills4aid team and good luck for the future.
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Skills4aid team for their invaluable support. Through their training and logistical assistance, our organisation has been able to develop new skills and reach an increasing number of vulnerable people in our community. Their efforts have had a significant impact on our ability to carry out our mission of helping and supporting those most in need.
ADYBEFEV expresses its deep appreciation to Skills4Aid for the vital role it plays in helping vulnerable people. We appreciate the admirable and essential work done by Skills4Aid, we express our gratitude for their moral and financial support.
ARDHU expresses its gratitude to Skills4Aid which is a valuable partner in the process of our organizational strengthening. We praise Skills4Aid's expertise in financial and administrative management, emphasizing that this has enabled us to set up solid and efficient procedures. Furthermore, we have confidence in Skills4Aid's ability to help us obtain funding thanks to their expertise in fundraising.
APSF expresses its deep gratitude to Skills4Aid for its varied and valuable support. Despite our recent membership to the platform, the impact of the partnership is already remarkable. APSF looks forward to continuing this fruitful collaboration with Skills4Aid.
We express our great satisfaction towards the Skills4Aid team for its simplicity and responsiveness. Their multiple coaching sessions have helped improve our communication and project writing skills. We thank Skills4Aid for providing us with access to online training and projects.
We are particularly proud to be a Partner of Skills4Aid, because thanks to them, the loneliness that weighed on us, as a disabled person, has dissipated. The FOPED organization, of which we are the initiators, would like to warmly thank Skills4Aid for its calls for events and its capacity-building actions that have greatly contributed to the well-being of our beneficiaries.
Since our meeting with Skills4aid, many things have changed in the functioning of our RESAEC structure. Filling out the Skills4aid evaluation tool allowed us to do our self-assessment. From this tool, we identified our weak points where we are working to improve.
ANPDDFE expresses its deep appreciation and gratitude to SKILL4AID, for their invaluable support to our mission. Since our collaboration with Skills4aid, ANPDDFE has experienced a significant transformation in its ability to provide essential services to vulnerable communities. The interactive workshops and coaching sessions offered by SKILL4AID have had a direct impact on our staff!
We are extremely happy to be part of Skills4aid partners. The coaching sessions especially on good communication and advocacy have been extremely enriching for our Organization. We were impressed by the quality of the content and the way the sessions were facilitated.
Our participation in the various training and coaching sessions organized by Skills4aid allowed us to significantly improve our way of working, we took part in several sessions. The most enriching was that of good communication for a strong CSO. The coaching sessions improved our visibility and access to funding.
Skills4aid reassured us about the clarity and relevance of its programme, but also the rigour in the activities it carries out for its partner CSOs.
Let us be the source of change.
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