II. Cooperation with partner countries

Africa . Central America . Asia . Middle East

Hotel and tourism school in Praia

Neonatal equipment

Sale of food produce through a women’s EIG (Economic Interest Group)

Using a multifunctional platform to produce electricity and recharge batteries or mobile phones

Support for the programme “Women and Climate change” implemented by UN Women

Craft production near Hanoi (supported by a microproject)

Plans for the future hospital in Bolikhamxay

Training of mid-wives within the context of support for the UNFPA

Health post in the region of Matagalpa

Matagalpa centre for vocational training, hotel and tourism section

El Jicaro School, Municipality of Sesori (San Miguel)

Health unit in the Municipality of San Jorge (San Miguel)

Sale of produce by a grouping of women in Saint-Louis in the north of Senegal

Training villagers in hygiene within the context of a water supply project in the Thiès region

Conditions in a vocational training centre before renovation by Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation

Villagers in the Dosso region

Hairdressing salon in a vocational training establishment in the suburbs of Bamako

Market gardening in a peripheral district of Bamako

National appropriation and joint trust funds

The implementation of the aid effectiveness agenda relates as much to the alignment of development cooperation programmes with partner countries’ national strategies as it does to the appropriation of programmes by those countries. Naturally the delivery channels for Luxembourg aid have evolved. The sectorial budgetary support for Cape Verde and the contribution to the Joint Trust Fund of the “Caring Communities” Programme in El Salvador have already been mentioned. In a similar vein, Luxembourg contributes to the Joint Health Fund (FONSALUD) in Nicaragua, which is managed by the Ministry of Health and is aiming to extend and reinforce health services across Nicaragua.

The alignment and use of the national systems of partner countries nevertheless presents a certain number of challenges and often presumes the existence of important reforms in those countries in the area of public finance management in order to guarantee adequate transparency and operationality. Furthermore, the level of maturity often differs from one sector to another within the same country.

In Burkina Faso for example, the Programme for Development of the Basic Education Sector (PDSEB) has valuable experience of joint financing mechanisms. During the 2012 Partnership Commission it was decided, within the contexts of the extension of Luxembourg’s ICP and the withdrawal of the Netherlands’ Development Cooperation from Burkina Faso, that Luxembourg would make two annual contributions of 7.5 million euros to the Burkina Faso Special Treasury Allocation Fund (CAST) in 2014 and 2015. By contrast other sectors are less well-structured and certain technical ministries themselves occasionally request to use donors’ procedures to avoid long legal delays and the complications of national procedures, particularly those related to tenders.

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