- Accueil
- Introduction
- DAC peer review
- European Consensus on Development
- Humanitarian - development Nexus
- Luxembourg’s official development assistance in 2017
- Cooperation with the main partner countries
- Regional cooperation
- Cooperation with other countries
- Cooperation with multilateral organisations
- The European Union
- Cooperation with development NGOs
- Humanitarian aid
- Programme support
- Development education and awareness-raising
- Inclusive finance and the private sector
- Evaluation
- The Interministerial Committee for Development Cooperation
- Communication
- Appendices
Programme support
Sarah Gilbertz, Digital Campaigns Officer Public Advocacy & Campaigns, Strategic Communications Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), New York
Programme support
“As a Luxembourgish JPO I had the tremendous opportunity of taking part in the organisation of the first United Nations World Humanitarian Summit. In 2016, over 5 000 representatives of governments, the private sector, NGOs and civil society met in Istanbul to discuss the future of humanitarian action - a professional experience I will never forget. I am currently continuing my career path as a JPO in New York in the communications branch of OCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, working on awareness-raising campaigns and new media.”
Sarah Gilbertz, Digital Campaigns Officer Public Advocacy & Campaigns, Strategic Communications Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), New York
Luxembourg’s involvement in development cooperation also means that a large number of opportunities are on offer to young people who want to commit themselves to, and acquire professional experience in, the field of development cooperation and humanitarian action. These opportunities vary depending on the interested person’s level of experience and profile and may be at the bilateral level, in the Ministry or with the agency LuxDev, or at civil society level with NGOs or even at the multilateral level with UN agencies and the European Union.
To that effect, the Ministry allots a specific budget for support to programmes that involve the deployment of human resources for development cooperation purposes. In 2017, some 2 400 000 euros were invested in various programmes involving cooperation officials, aid workers, “Junior Professional Officers” (or JPOs) at the United Nations, “Junior Professionals in Delegation” (JPDs) in the delegations of the European Commission and the European External Action Service, United Nations Volunteers (UNVs), Junior Technical Assistants (JTAs) with LuxDev and young volunteers in the Voluntary Cooperation Service (VCS) with the National Youth Service and NGOs. Support for the programme is a resounding success with young people and is the best way of creating high-quality expertise in Luxembourg for the future of our development cooperation.
