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Luxembourg Cooperation Annual Report 2019
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Multilateral cooperation

As a strong sup­port­er of mul­ti­lat­er­al­ism, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s com­mit­ment to mul­ti­lat­er­al organ­i­sa­tions remains one of the main­stays of Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion when act­ing at inter­na­tion­al lev­el. Through the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion Strat­e­gy, enti­tled ​‘On the road to 2030’, the 2030 Agen­da and the 17 Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs) adopt­ed by the Unit­ed Nations are at the heart of Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Cooperation’s commitment.

In total, almost 30% of Luxembourg’s total offi­cial devel­op­ment assis­tance goes annu­al­ly to inter­na­tion­al and mul­ti­lat­er­al organ­i­sa­tions (EUR119,670,040.93 in 2019). Mul­ti­lat­er­al coop­er­a­tion relates to both the agen­cies, funds and pro­grammes in the Unit­ed Nations fam­i­ly as well as oth­er mul­ti­lat­er­al organ­i­sa­tions such as the Euro­pean Union (EU) insti­tu­tions, the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank (EIB), the World Bank, the Inter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) and the Organ­i­sa­tion for Coop­er­a­tion and Devel­op­ment in Europe (OECD).

UNITED NATIONS (UN)

As in pre­vi­ous years, Lux­em­bourg par­tic­i­pat­ed in meet­ings of the exec­u­tive boards of UNDP, UNF­PA, UNOPS, UN Women and UNICEF. In 2019, Lux­em­bourg served on the exec­u­tive board of UNICEF, in a year that marked the 30th anniver­sary of the Inter­na­tion­al Con­ven­tion on the Rights of the Child. At the annu­al ses­sion of the UNICEF exec­u­tive board Lux­em­bourg facil­i­tat­ed the deci­sion on the annu­al report on human­i­tar­i­an action.

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EUROPEAN UNION

Under the Roman­ian Pres­i­den­cy, Lux­em­bourg took part in the For­eign Affairs Coun­cil meet­ing in its devel­op­ment con­fig­u­ra­tion in Brus­sels on 16 May 2019. Under the Finnish Pres­i­den­cy, Lux­em­bourg took part in the For­eign Affairs Coun­cil meet­ing in its devel­op­ment con­fig­u­ra­tion in Brus­sels on 25 Novem­ber 2019.

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OECD

Lux­em­bourg is an active mem­ber of the Devel­op­ment Assis­tance Com­mit­tee (DAC), which became part of the OECD in 1961. The DAC is an inter­na­tion­al forum in which donor coun­tries and mul­ti­lat­er­al organ­i­sa­tions work togeth­er to help part­ner coun­tries reduce pover­ty and achieve the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The DAC thus pro­vides a forum for a com­mu­ni­ty of deci­sion-mak­ers to dis­cuss, improve and coor­di­nate their pub­lic poli­cies and approaches.

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