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Luxembourg Cooperation Annual Report 2020
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El Salvador

Project country

Introduction

Development cooperation relations between Luxembourg and El Salvador began in 1993, as part of efforts to rebuild the country following the civil war. El Salvador had priority partner country status with Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation until 2015. Its admission to the category of middle-income countries on the basis of some significant progress made in development has since that time made it possible to embark on a new innovative and inclusive partnership approach which makes more use of national systems and procedures.

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The year 2020 saw the con­tin­u­a­tion of the main bilat­er­al projects in the area of devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion, in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with Pres­i­dent Bukele’s gov­ern­ment. Luxembourg’s devel­op­ment aid has focused on three key areas, through inno­v­a­tive projects targeting:

  • sup­port for the El Sal­vador government’s social policy;
  • sup­port for youth employ­a­bil­i­ty through civ­il soci­ety via the Fon­do Con­cursable man­aged by the El Sal­vador gov­ern­ment (FOCAP);
  • sup­port for South-South and tri­an­gu­lar coop­er­a­tion (FOS­AL).
  • These projects are direct­ly deliv­ered by the El Sal­vador gov­ern­ment, with the role of LuxDev being restrict­ed to sup­port and monitoring.

In 2020, Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion also con­tin­ued its sup­port for the NGO FUNDE, a long-stand­ing part­ner, in the area of fis­cal trans­paren­cy and com­bat­ing cor­rup­tion, and ini­ti­at­ed sup­port for the work of the Inter­na­tion­al Com­mis­sion Against Impuni­ty in El Sal­vador, estab­lished by the Bukele gov­ern­ment in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Orga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS).

The Lux­em­bour­gish NGO Action Sol­i­dar­ité Tiers Monde (ASTM) received co-financ­ing from the MFA in El Sal­vador in 2020 and con­tin­ued the imple­men­ta­tion of projects in the human rights area.

Priority areas of intervention

  • Good health and well-being
  • Decent work and economic growth
  • Reduced inequalities
  • Climate action
  • Peace, justice and strong institutions

Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion has con­tributed to the nation­al response to COVID-19, in par­tic­u­lar by sup­port­ing the cre­ation of the country’s first uni­ver­si­ty hos­pi­tal with­in the frame­work of a tri­an­gu­lar coop­er­a­tion project with Argenti­na and Colom­bia. Sup­port from Lux­em­bourg also made it pos­si­ble to ensure the con­ti­nu­ity of Fon­do consursable’s activ­i­ties through the dis­tri­b­u­tion of hygiene kits to young peo­ple and the intro­duc­tion of remote train­ing cours­es. These adjust­ments made it pos­si­ble to achieve a high rate of reten­tion in the youth employ­a­bil­i­ty pro­gramme, despite a very strict lockdown.

Reference data

  • Population (MIO): 6.5
  • GNI (per resident): USD 8720
  • Human Development Index (HDI): 124/189
  • Life expectancy: 73.3
  • Indicative Cooperation Programme: N/A

Key achievements 2020

  • Adjust­ments to our bilat­er­al projects have enabled the con­ti­nu­ity of activ­i­ties and effec­tive sup­port for the nation­al response to COVID-19. 
  • Lux­em­bourg has sup­port­ed the fight against cor­rup­tion in the coun­try, through our long-stand­ing part­ner FUNDE and the OAS Com­mis­sion Against Impunity.
  • Lux­em­bourg strength­ened its sup­port for female entre­pre­neurs in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and sup­port­ed SICA’s region­al response to the pan­dem­ic in its health and socio-eco­nom­ic dimensions.