L-R: Mame Thierno Dieng, Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development; Romain Schneider, Minister of Cooperation and Humanitarian Action; Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, Minister of Health and Social Action;
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Senegal Minister of Health and Social Action, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, and Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Mame Thierno Dieng, yesterday undertook a working visit to Luxembourg.
On 8 March 2018, during their visit to Luxembourg, Senegal ministers Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr and Mame Thierno Dieng had a working meeting with Romain Schneider, Luxembourg Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action. This meeting was an opportunity to take stock of Senegalese-Luxembourg cooperation, particularly with a view to launching the fourth Indicative Cooperation Programme (PIC IV 2018 - 2022) which was signed by the Luxembourg and Senegalese authorities on the occasion the official visit to Senegal of HRH the Grand Duke in January 2018.
With an indicative envelope of €65 million, the ICP IV will focus on two priority areas, namely "health and social protection" and "training vocational and technical and youth employability". The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development will be involved as a stakeholder in this exercise, where environment and climate change will be a cross-cutting theme, continuing the successful partnership already developed in previous PICs.
During the official visit to Senegal in January 2018, the Minister of the Environment, Carole Dieschbourg, had identified avenues of bilateral collaboration in the field of climate action and environmental protection with her Senegalese counterpart Mame Thierno Dieng. These included projects addressing Senegal's main environmental challenges, coastal erosion, desertification as a result of deforestation and waste management. Ministers agreed on enhanced cooperation, additional to official development assistance, on the establishment and implementation of the climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy and sustainable management of plastic waste.
Accompanied by the Minister of Health, Lydia Mutsch, the Ministers of Health and Social Action, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr and Environment and Sustainable Development, Mame Thierno Dieng, also visited the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL). Lydia Mutsch and Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr discussed the governance of hospitals in Luxembourg, and more specifically the new hospital law. Finally, the director-general of the CHL, Dr. Romain Nati, presented to the Senegalese delegation the services of the A&E department, followed by a visit to the CHL maternity ward, which closed the visit.
