Credit: MAEE
On Wednesday 3 February 2021, five Luxembourgish non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) signed the renewal of their respective development framework agreements.
After a brief presentation of these framework agreements, the following five NGDOs signed them in the presence of Luxembourg's Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, Franz Fayot: Aide à l'enfance de l'Inde et du Népal (AEIN), Fondation Caritas, Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Fondation Raoul Follereau (FRF) and Pharmaciens sans frontières (PSF).
The total contribution of Luxembourg's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (which includes the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs) to these framework agreements amounts to €23,234,892 and will cover the period from 2021 to 2025. The activities co-financed by Luxembourg's development cooperation programme will benefit from co-financing up to between 60% and 80%.
The activities of the NGDOs in question will be distributed across seventeen African and Asian countries: Benin, Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ivory Coast, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The intervention sectors chosen by the NGDOs will target the field of food security, the elimination of violence against women and girls, education, health and the water and sanitation sector, among others.
Minister Franz Fayot welcomed the choice of intervention sectors and recalled the importance of the commitment of NGDOs, not only but also in times of COVID-19. He noted: "The pandemic accentuates social and gender inequalities, as well as food insecurity around the world, which further increases poverty. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has never been more important than it is now and the work of NGDOs is crucial for the efforts of recent years to bear fruit".
