Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2012

The following table sets out the complete allocation of Luxembourg’s ODA expenditure in 2012 by sector.

In 2012, Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation continued to focus on the sectors regrouped under infrastructures and social services, which represented 33.6 % of all ODA (and almost three quarters of bilateral aid, i.e. 72.37 %). Within this category, education and health (respectively 14.35 % and 12.52 % of bilateral aid) remained the principal sectors of Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation, followed by water distribution and sanitation.

Infrastructures and economic services represented 6.11 % of ODA (8.34 % of bilateral aid), the main sub-category being investments in the banking and financial services sector (5.84 % of bilateral aid).
The production sector was a little less than 5 % of ODA in 2012 (5.89 % of bilateral aid), the majority of investments being devoted to agriculture, forestry and fishing (5.25 % of bilateral aid). Multisectorial or transversal support was slightly more than 7 % of ODA.

Finally, it should be noted that a large part of the investments (77.95 %) within the framework of multilateral ODA can not be assigned to a specific sector. This is because many contributions for multilateral cooperation are direct, obligatory or voluntary contributions to the general budget of multilateral agencies.