VII. Humanitarian action

The transition stage

After the emergency, the transition stage aims to support the efforts of affected populations to rebuild their lives and their means of subsistence. The aim of the transition stage is both to make a bridge between the emergency stage and the development stage and to support the community and individuals in the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation.

At the end of the emergency phase connected to the earthquakes at the end of April 2015 which severely affected Nepal, the Ministry co-financed rehabilitation and reconstruction activities to the amount of over 670 000 euros. In effect, the Ministry co-financed early recovery activities and rehabilitation and reconstruction planning implemented by the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) team. The NGO Pharmaciens sans frontières received support for a reconstruction and rehabilitation project by three village development committees (VDC) in Ramechhap. Four other NGOs received co-financing from the Ministry: the Friends of Tibet and the NGO FNEL for a project to renovate schools in Sindhupalchock and APMU for the reconstruction of health centres in Dhading and Baluwa.

In 2015, Fondation Caritas Luxembourg also received financial support for its rehabilitation/reconstruction programmes in the Philippines, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan. The Ministry contributed to four Handicap International Luxembourg projects in Sri Lanka, Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Finally, the Ministry contributed to the financing of a reconstruction project in the Philippines following Typhoons Quinta and Bopha (Société Kolping) and Typhoon Haiyan (Action Solidarité Tiers Monde), a reconstruction project following the floods in Malawi (Unity Foundation), a project to provide nutritional support and child-friendly spaces in Syria (SOS Children’s Villages), a transitional justice programme in Tunisia (International Center for Transitional Justice) and a programme to demobilise the children associated with the armed forces and groups in the DRC and a programme of promoting integration for Syrian refugee women in Turkey (Refugee Education Trust).

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