Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2015

The capacity-building and training project benefiting the staff of the Mongolian Financial Regulatory Commission (FRC) in particular, but also the institution as a whole and the Mongolian capital markets, was extended and implemented throughout 2015. This extension, based on the results of the evaluation carried out in 2014, enabled the project to be profitably consolidated and its impacts to be made sustainable. In the financial sector, Luxembourg also continued to support a banking training programme organised by the ATTF for young management staff of the commercial banks and the Mongolian Central Bank.

In June 2015, the Mongolian Deputy Minister for Health made a working visit to Luxembourg during which the third annual steering committee meetings took place as part of the Cardiovascular Centre, MCH and e-health Expansion project which established an e-health network to provide practically all the Mongolian population with cardiology coverage. Since 2012, e-health has also been extended to the field of mother and child health in cooperation with the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) and heart surgery has been developed. The Shastin Hospital, the centre for the cardiology section of the project, collaborates closely with the Luxembourg INNCI (Institut national de chirurgie cardiaque et de cardiologie interventionnelle) and is also developing cooperative associations for technical assistance, in particular with the Hôpital universitaire de Strasbourg and the Korea Heart Foundation. At the request of Mongolia and with a view to ensuring the sustainability and consolidation of the knowledge acquired in this field, Luxembourg’s development cooperation demonstrated its continued commitment by assisting Mongolia to draw up the business plan for the future national cardiology centre in Ulan Bator; Mongolia intends to base the plan on the corresponding interventions by Luxembourg.

Luxembourg’s development cooperation took that opportunity to welcome the major efforts made by the Mongolian government to improve its health policy, including extending its health coverage to poorer and more vulnerable people.