Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2015

The Palestinian Territories have a special status similar to Luxembourg development cooperation’s partner countries. As in previous years, Luxembourg’s development cooperation is supporting Palestinian civil society via three local NGOs: 600 000 euros to the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) in the agriculture and sustainable development sector (100 000 euros more than in 2014), 250 000 euros to the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) in the sector of reproductive health for women and 160 000 USD for 2015 to the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN) in the transparency and good governance sector. These contributions are generally the same as in the previous year; this guarantees the stability of the contributions for this region.

The largest part of the contribution to the OPT is the contribution to the UNRWA. In 2015, this amounted to 4 250 000 euros, of which 500 000 euros was an extraordinary, one-off contribution given the OPT’s disastrous financial situation at the start of the 2015 school year. Apart from its voluntary contribution, Luxembourg’s development cooperation contributes the sum of 360 000 euros to the “Healthy Life and Lifestyle for Youth in West Bank and Gaza” project, which focuses on reproductive health and combating diabetes in children and young teenagers.

^* The Occupied Palestinian Territories are to be considered as one of the main partner countries of Luxembourg’s development cooperation as specified in Article 3 of the Grand-Ducal Regulation of 7 August 2012 setting intervention thresholds, the annual financial ceiling, the local non-financial contribution and the audit obligations as part of the co-financing of programmes or projects presented by non-governmental development organisations under the modified law of 6 January 1996 on development cooperation and humanitarian action.