Emergency Aid

In prepa­ra­tion for pos­si­ble human­i­tar­i­an emer­gen­cies, Lux­em­bourg reserves about 75% of its human­i­tar­i­an aid bud­get for emer­gen­cies. This aid is allo­cat­ed accord­ing to need and with a par­tic­u­lar focus on 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 indi­ca­tors for for­got­ten crises.

In June 2019, Min­is­ter Lenert paid a work­ing vis­it to Bangladesh, dur­ing which she vis­it­ed Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee camp, which hosts Rohingya who have fled violence. 

With regard to the Syr­i­an cri­sis, the Lux­em­bourg gov­ern­ment was able to hon­our its pledge to make a dona­tion and dis­bursed EUR7.5 mil­lion. Apart from Syr­ia, Lux­em­bourg has pro­vid­ed human­i­tar­i­an aid through its part­ners to South Sudan, the CAR, Iraq, the Occu­pied Pales­tin­ian Ter­ri­to­ries, Mali, Niger, the DRC, Soma­lia, Afghanistan, Colom­bia and Yemen. West Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region have also received Lux­em­bourg aid through a mul­ti-coun­try approach. Oth­er coun­tries also received aid, such as Laos, Ethiopia and Cameroon. The imple­men­ta­tion of emer­gency human­i­tar­i­an aid in these coun­tries and regions was car­ried out through projects by Lux­em­bourg NGOs and con­tri­bu­tions to UN agen­cies and the ICRC.