As a founding member of Mentoring Belgium, DUO for a JOB is proud to have contributed to the very first Grande Soirée du Mentoring, which brought together more than 100 policy makers, companies, foundations and field actors from the country's three regions on 9 October in Brussels.
In June 2025, DUO for a JOB, together with six other mentoring organizations from the country's three regions — Apides, CIMB Wapi, FMDO, MentorYou, Randstad RiseSmart Belgium and Team4Job — launched Mentoring Belgium, the first national coalition dedicated to mentoring towards employment.
Our observation is simple: mentoring is a human, concrete and effective response to promote social and professional integration, whose impact and profitability have been measured and proven. Despite these factual data, this social innovation is struggling to obtain the financial and legal recognition necessary to become a real public policy tool. We explain to you below.
For 10 years in Belgium, thanks to Mentoring Belgium:
💪 More than 10,500 job seekers were supported.
💪 7 out of 10 people have found a lasting job or a qualifying training course.
💪 Each euro invested in mentoring generated 18 euros in return for public finances.
With the unemployment reform scheduled for 2026, which will affect more than 184,000 people, mentoring is therefore a proven and immediately operational solution to support the return to work and avoid precariousness.
In this context, the Grande Soirée du Mentoring, organized on October 9, 2025, brought together more than 100 policy makers, companies, foundations and actors in the field to discuss together the concrete impact of mentoring and how it can support this reform.
Representatives of public institutions (Actiris), foundations (King Baudouin Foundation), companies (Lyreco Benelux, Eiffage Construction BeLux, Accenture) and inspiring international experiences (Collective Mentoring, France) have all affirmed it with conviction: mentoring works!
Faced with the challenges of the job market, this consensus highlights the ability of the mentoring community in Belgium to act in a coordinated manner to propose concrete solutions.
The evening was unanimously concluded on the conditions for such development: mentoring has a real impact, but its deployment depends on stable public funding. Today, it is still largely based on temporary, fragmented or philanthropic support, limiting its reach and effectiveness.
For DUO for a JOB and all Mentoring Belgium partners, it is urgent to guarantee structural public funding, in order to transform mentoring into a sustainable tool for professional integration at the national level. Mentoring Belgium will continue to advocate for decision makers so that mentoring can fully find its place in public policies.
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