Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2015

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Given the extraordinary economic and social progress made by El Salvador since the 1990s, it was decided that the 2012-2015 ICP would be the final development cooperation programme and that the partnership between the two countries had reached a sufficiently mature level to diversify relations beyond the framework of development assistance.

Thus 2015 was marked by the evaluation and closure of the bilateral social protection and aid effectiveness programmes as well as support for civil society. At the 11th partnership committee held in Luxembourg on 25 March 2015, the two governments agreed the following:

• to develop specific support which will ensure that the knowledge acquired so far is consolidated after the closure of the ICP, with a contribution being made to governmental social protection programmes;
• a financial contribution to the second fund to support El Salvadorean civil society initiatives;
• a contribution to South-South cooperation and support for fiscal transparency via the NGO FUNDE.

Support for the finance sector implemented by the Luxembourg agency for technology transfer, has been remodelled and extended until 2017 in order to ensure that the objectives are reached.

Outside the partnership committee, Jaime Miranda, El Salvador’s Deputy Minister of Development Cooperation, took part in the round table on post-2015 challenges at the development cooperation conference. At the same event, Roberto Rubio, the Director of the NGO FUNDE, took part in the round table on strengthening civil societies in the South; both men highlighted the good practice developed with the support of Luxembourg’s development cooperation.