I. Luxembourg’s official development assistance in 2016

The Development Cooperation Fund in 2016

Established by the amended law of 6 January 1996 on development cooperation and humanitarian action, the Development Cooperation Fund (DCF) is an instrument which enables the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to carry out successfully development programmes and projects extending over several years.

The state budget provided the DCF with 191 910 945 euros in 2016; added to this are the assets available on 1 January, i.e. 113 181 euros, as well as revenue during the year (881 483 euros) – essentially reimbursements from NGOs of funds not disbursed on projects co-financed by the Ministry.

In 2016, a total of 190,17 million euros was disbursed through the DCF. The majority of this amount (43,32%, i.e. 82,38 million euros) was granted to the agency Lux-Development as the state’s principal agent in implementing projects and programmes involving bilateral governmental cooperation. Next come non-governmental development organisations, which received 36,47 million euros (19,18%) as part of the co-financing of their projects and programmes. The balance was accounted for by projects implemented by the Ministry directly with other partners (17,66%) or with multilateral agencies (12,95%) as well as for the contribution for support to programmes.

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