Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2012

Following the DAC’s recommendations, the Directorate for Development Cooperation developed and completed a communication strategy. This strategy outlines the Directorate’s yearly communication activities, including the annual report, its participation in the Fundamental Monodrama Festival, the Development Cooperation Conference and continued support for NGOs’ development education and awareness-raising projects. Additionally, the ministry has participated in a series of activities with the Inter-ministerial Committee on Education for Sustainable Development.

The 2011 annual report was published in three formats: in print, online (www.cooperation.lu) and downloadable for tablets.

On a socio-cultural level, the Directorate for Development Cooperation supported the Fundamental Monodrama Festival by co-financing four festival performances as well as a performance at the Development Cooperation Conference.

The Luxembourg Development Cooperation Conference

The seventh Luxembourg Development Cooperation Conference, held on 17 and 18 September 2012, brought together the Directorate for Development Cooperation, Lux-Development, NGO representatives, actors from the public and private sectors and civil society, along with Luxembourg’s national and international development cooperation partners. The conference was devoted to physical and political insecurity and food insecurity. Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, António Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Christine Beerli, Vice-President of the ICRC, participated in three thematic round table discussions devoted to food insecurity, physical insecurity and political insecurity, as well as to legal insecurity. For its part, the NGO platform Cercle de Coopération, organised a session devoted to security and food sovereignty.

The Inter-ministerial Committee on Education for Sustainable Development

As a member of the Interministerial Committee on Education for Sustainable Development, the Directorate was involved in formulating the National Strategy of Education for Sustainable Development, “Learning sustainable development – acting for the future”, in collaboration with the Cercle de Coopération. A quality charter was signed by those associations hoping to organise teaching workshops in State schools. Further information about these development education activities can be found online at www.bne.lu.