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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
European Year for Development
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the closing ceremony of the European Year for Development
European Year for Development
The aim of Luxembourg’s development cooperation during the 2015 European Year for Development (EYD) was to raise the awareness of new audiences about development cooperation actions and to highlight individual responsibility and interest in this context, in line with the Year’s slogan “Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future.” To that end, activities were organised by target audience (general public, young people, professional circles). For the organisation and implementation of the EYD national work programme, a national coordination group had been set up in May 2014 to ensure that the Year was prepared and coordinated adequately. The group met monthly and was made up of Ben Fayot, Luxembourg’s special EYD ambassador, representation from the European Commission in Luxembourg, from the European Parliament’s Information Office in Luxembourg and the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action, as well as the NGOs’ umbrella organisation, the Cercle of Luxembourg NGOs, and CGJL, a youth organisation.
Numerous events were organised by civil society and the institutional actors, but 24 were organised either by the Directorate for Development Cooperation or in close collaboration with it.
The visibility of these events in Luxembourg and at the European level was ensured through the publication of information on the European Year website https://europa.eu/eyd2015/fr/luxembourg and on that of the Directorate for Development Cooperation (http://www.gouvernement.lu/cooperation), as well as through the coordination meetings at the European level and the inter-institutional meetings in Brussels.
