- Accueil
- Introduction
- New strategy "the road to 2030"
- LUXEMBOURG’S OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN 2018
- 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
- Inclusive finance and the private sector
- Evaluation
- The Interministerial Committee for Development Cooperation
- Appendices
Humanitarian aid
Emergency aid
Luxembourg aims to reserve around 75 % of its annual humanitarian aid budget for emergency humanitarian aid. This aid is allocated according to need and with particular attention to the most vulnerable people, taking account of several indicators such as the classification of humanitarian crises, risk management indices (INFORM) and the ECHO and OCHA forgotten crisis indicators.
In 2018, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs Romain Schneider took part in the high-level conference on the Lake Chad region, held in Berlin on 3 September. The aim of the conference was to mobilise political and financial support in order to address this humanitarian crisis affecting one of the poorest regions in the world.
With regard to the Syrian crisis, the Luxembourg government was able to honour its pledge to make a donation and disbursed 7,5 million euros (2,5 million euros of which was supplied to UNICEF for its “No Lost Generation” initiative).
Apart from Syria, Luxembourg supplied humanitarian assistance via its partners in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Iraq, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Mali, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Colombia and Yemen. West Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region also received Luxembourg aid through a multi-country approach. This assistance also included other countries such as Laos, Ethiopia and Cameroon. The implementation of emergency humanitarian aid in these countries and regions was carried out via Luxembourg NGO projects and contributions to UN agencies and the ICRC.
