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- Preface
- Development Effectiveness
- World Humanitarian Summit
- I. Luxembourg’s official development assistance in 2016
- 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 and the private sector
- XI. Evaluation
- XII. Report on the progress of the work of the Interministerial Committee for Development Cooperation in 2016
- Appendices
II. Cooperation with the main partner countries
Mali
Farmer supported by the MLI/021 project on a smallholding
Training of Malian partners in monitoring and evaluation as part of the MLI/021 project
Mali
Population 17,6 million
Surface area 1 240192 km2
GNP per inhabitant (PPP in $) 2 285
Classification in HDI 175/188
2016 has confirmed the excellent relations between Luxembourg and Mali. At the diplomatic level, Luxembourg opened an office in Bamako that remains formally linked to the Luxembourg Embassy in Dakar and which was highly appreciated by the Malian authorities.
Relations between the two countries are based on a holistic approach integrating the 3Ds – development, diplomacy and defence – that combines humanitarian aid with development assistance and support to strengthen the security situation. Other aspects, in particular economic, cultural, university and legal ones, are also finding their proper place as part of our third Indicative Cooperation Programme (ICP III, 2015-2019).
2016 saw the effective start of all the programmes of ICP III, which focuses on the traditional sectors of Luxembourg’s development cooperation: rural development, vocational training and professional integration, decentralisation and good governance. Geographically, the interventions are concentrated in the south of the country, in the Ségou and Sikasso region (Yorosso Cercle) as well as in the Kidal and Gao regions in the north of the country.
The 9th partnership committee meeting, co-chaired by Minister Romain Schneider and the Malian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Abdoulaye Diop, took place on 6 May 2016 in Bamako and enabled the signature of a letter of understanding with the aim of strengthening the synergies and collaboration between all the various actors in the third ICP. Alongside this meeting, Minister Schneider was given an audience with the President of the Republic, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who underlined his appreciation for Luxembourg’s friendly and supportive behaviour: indeed, Luxembourg has never left Mali, even at the height of the political and security crisis in 2012.
Over and above Luxembourg’s contribution in human and financial resources to the European Union’s military training mission, EUTM, and the European Union’s civil capacity building mission, EUCAP Sahel Mali, Luxembourg’s development cooperation signed a new project with EUCAP Sahel Mali in December 2016 with the aim of operationalising the Malian police’s criminal database in Bamako.
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