Contributing to Luxembourg Development Cooperation

Pro­gramme sup­port man­ages and facil­i­tates oper­a­tions to deploy human resources for coop­er­a­tion. Specif­i­cal­ly, this relates to junior pro­fes­sion­al offi­cers (JPOs) and vol­un­teers at the Unit­ed Nations, junior pro­fes­sion­als in del­e­ga­tion (JPDs) at the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and the Euro­pean Exter­nal Action Ser­vice (EEAS), as well as the junior tech­ni­cal assis­tants (JTAs) in the frame­work of an intern­ship pro­gramme fund­ed by the Min­istry of For­eign and Euro­pean Affairs (MFA) and man­aged by LuxDev, the Lux­em­bourg agency for devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion. In order to give young grad­u­ates the oppor­tu­ni­ty to acquire fur­ther train­ing and improve their skills by acquir­ing a first expe­ri­ence in devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion and human­i­tar­i­an action, the MFA also offers field place­ments or work place­ments, with a salary paid for those last­ing four weeks or longer. Unpaid intern­ships with­in the inter­na­tion­al NGOENDA Tiers-Monde and the coop­er­a­tion vol­un­teer ser­vice (SVC), man­aged by the Nation­al Youth Ser­vice (SNJ), are the oth­er ele­ments of this var­ied range of pro­grammes for young graduates.

In addi­tion, the Direc­torate of Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion and Human­i­tar­i­an Affairs grants finan­cial sup­port to aid work­ers work­ing on behalf of var­i­ous accred­it­ed Lux­em­bour­gish NGDOs. In order to enable the mem­bers of these NGOs to also par­tic­i­pate in devel­op­ment pro­grammes and projects and to assist the tar­get pop­u­la­tions, the law makes pro­vi­sion for devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion leave of six days per year per ben­e­fi­cia­ry. Devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion leave and aid work­er sta­tus are grant­ed in the form of min­is­te­r­i­al orders.