Cabo Verde

In terms of recent bilat­er­al vis­its, Min­is­ter Fay­ot vis­it­ed the coun­try from 14 to 19 Feb­ru­ary 2020. This was his first work­ing vis­it to a Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion part­ner coun­try in his capac­i­ty as Min­is­ter for Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion and Human­i­tar­i­an Affairs. He was accom­pa­nied by Car­ole Dieschbourg, Min­is­ter for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate and Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment, and by Claude Turmes, Min­is­ter for Ener­gy and Spa­tial Plan­ning. The visit’s main aim was to strength­en bilat­er­al dis­cus­sions con­cern­ing the meth­ods for imple­ment­ing the new ​‘coun­try approach’. This approach seeks, pri­mar­i­ly, to pro­vide bet­ter coher­ence between Luxembourg’s pub­lic poli­cies and increased syn­er­gy between the actions of Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion and oth­er pol­i­cy areas, in par­tic­u­lar the fight against the adverse effects of cli­mate change, and the ener­gy tran­si­tion. This aim was reflect­ed in the sign­ing of a new indica­tive coop­er­a­tion pro­gramme (ICP) enti­tled ​‘Devel­op­ment – Cli­mate – Ener­gy’, cov­er­ing the 2021 – 2025 peri­od, at the 20^th part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing between Lux­em­bourg and Cabo Verde. This was held on 8 July 2020 by video-con­fer­ence. Struc­tured around five pil­lars of inter­ven­tion – Employ­ment and Employ­a­bil­i­ty, Water and San­i­ta­tion, Cli­mate Action, Ener­gy Tran­si­tion and Local Devel­op­ment – this is the first time that a coop­er­a­tion pro­gramme between Lux­em­bourg and a part­ner coun­try has com­bined devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion actions with actions linked to the cli­mate and ener­gy tran­si­tion. The lat­ter will be financed both by the Coop­er­a­tion Devel­op­ment Fund and the Cli­mate and Ener­gy Fund, with a total indica­tive bud­get of EUR78 million.

In 2020, there were three Lux­em­bour­gish NGOs work­ing in Cabo Verde, fund­ed by the MFA: Beete­buerg Hëlleft (pri­ma­ry edu­ca­tion), ECPAT Lux­em­bourg (gen­der-based vio­lence) and OGBL Sol­i­dar­ité Syn­di­cale (trade union training).