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- Preface
- European Year for Development
- COP21 and the Paris Agreement
- I. Luxembourg’s official development assistance in 2015
- II. Cooperation with the main partner countries
- III. Regional cooperation and cooperation with other countries
- IV. Multilateral cooperation
- V. European Union
- VI. Cooperation with non-governmental development organisations
- VII. Humanitarian action
- VIII. Programme support
- IX. Development education and awareness raising
- X. Inclusive finance
- XI. Evaluation
- XII. Report on the progress of the work of the Interministerial Committee for Development Cooperation
- Appendices
VI. Cooperation with non-governmental development organisations
Joint press conference by Ministry of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action Romain Schneider and the Chairman of the Cercle of NGOs, Armand Drews
Cooperation with non-governmental development organisations
Ninety-one associations have the approval of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursuant to the amended law of 6 January 1996 on development cooperation and humanitarian action. Two associations were approved as NGOs in 2015. NGOs spent 37 244 977 euros on development cooperation activities via these main financial instruments:
- framework cooperation agreements: 17 framework agreements (three of which were in consortium between two NGOs) were co-financed in 2015 at a total cost of 21 249 255 euros. Six framework agreements were renewed in 2015;
- co-financing of development projects: 142 individual projects by 55 NGOs were supported in 2015 at a total cost of 11 563 180 euros;
- implementation mandates as part of bilateral cooperation: 4 432 542 euros (including the microfinance mandate and the mandate given to the CITIM).
Added to this are loans recorded as official development assistance allocated for humanitarian action (emergency aid, food aid, crisis prevention, reconstruction and rehabilitation), subsidies for awareness-raising and development education activities and support for administrative expenses incurred in the preparation and monitoring of the development activities. In total, the ODA allocated to national non-governmental organisations in 2015 was 53 409 683,68 euros, i.e. 16,28% of Luxembourg’s official development assistance for this budget year.
Luxembourg development cooperation attaches great importance to civil society organisations as fully-fledged development actors. In effect, it is one of the development cooperation systems which has most recourse to civil society organisations to implement development projects and programmes. NGOs are a complementary route for bilateral aid, enabling intervention in countries and sectors where the Ministry cannot intervene and, by working closer to the beneficiaries, reaching parts of the population of developing countries where bilateral cooperation is not present.
The large number of approved NGOs and the percentage of ODA allocated to NGOs as a result bears witness to the importance that the Luxembourg population attaches to civil society organisations; this is a way of expressing its international solidarity. The Ministry’s strong commitment to Luxembourgish NGOs, supporting both development projects and awareness-raising and development education projects, is enabling ODA to remain at around 1% of GNI. Effectively, through the NGOs, the Luxembourg population can directly, and substantially, participate and be involved in the implementation of Luxembourg’s development cooperation policy.
