- 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
Prevention and resilience
In accordance with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, adopted in March 2015, the MFEA allocates at least 5 % of its humanitarian action budget to financing activities in the field of prevention, resilience and disaster risk reduction. In particular, the Ministry supports its humanitarian partners in implementing preventative measures such as initiatives to strengthen local capacities, risk evaluation, monitoring systems, early warning systems and the prepositioning of emergency items. The Ministry also encourages its partners to protect the environment and to integrate climate change adaptation strategies into their humanitarian projects. Prevention and resilience make up the third pillar of Luxembourg humanitarian action, both upstream and downstream of the emergency and transition stages.
Luxembourg’s development cooperation co-financed two Luxembourg Red Cross projects in the Sahel: a risk reduction project and a research project into provisional shelters. In addition, the NGO Handicap International Luxembourg was supported in implementing a resilience programme in Myanmar; a Fondation Caritas Luxembourg project in Bolivia aiming to reduce risk conditions by using a participatory planning process in the Guanay municipality; a project to improve the resilience of vulnerable populations in Laos and the implementation of a prevention project in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
The Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) of the UNDP also received a contribution from Luxembourg to its programme to strengthen the response capacities for rehabilitation and reconstruction in Niger, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Laos and Cabo Verde.
Luxembourg also renewed its support for the Niger Ministry for Humanitarian Action as part of the bilateral humanitarian partnership for the establishment of the flooding risk reduction project.
Finally, the Ministry supported the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) as part of its strategic partnership agreement to strengthen the resilience of nations and communities facing disasters.
