ACTEC - A profession for all

Helping people

We help our beneficiaries, and we change their world!

ACTEC – Association for Cultural, Technical and Educational Cooperation – is a Belgian NGO created in 1982 to strengthen the role and autonomy of marginalised people by teaching them a profession.

All of our projects emphasise the personal and professional development of our beneficiaries because we believe that they are true actors for change in their society.

The paths to employment

By focusing on the PROFESSION, we enable the vulnerable populations of countries of the South to integrate with their societies socially and economically.

Technical and vocational training

Entrepreneurial training: microMBA

Personalized support

ACTEC always works with the leading local development entities of each country. Our approach is based on a strategic partnership relationship which enables sustainable and qualitative anchoring of our development projects. Our partners are the keystone of our actions. We provide our know-how and expertise to strengthen their institutional capabilities.

Financing

Coaching

Inspiring

“ACTEC makes us think, shows us other models and shares good practices which we can use. It is an ally who looks out for us over the long term. Its approach to implementing its actions with “famiempresarios” is not intermittent, but complete. ACTEC is at the heart of INTERACTUAR”.

Andrea Zuluaga

Interactuar, Medellin (Colombia)

ACTEC around the world

ACTEC is currently present in 7 African and Latin American countries. Our strategy, whose objective is to provide A PROFESSION FOR ALL, adjusts to different contexts, depending on the needs, realities and priorities of each country and the potential of each of our partners.

ACTEC in brief

2017 key figures

beneficiaries

of our beneficiaries are women

project countries

local partners in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and the Caribbean and South America

people working locally with our projects

development projects in progress

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invested in our projects

partner foundations from the North support our projects

The person

at the heart of development

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