Nicaragua

How­ev­er, as a result of the social and polit­i­cal cri­sis that began in April 2018, Lux­em­bourg made changes to its devel­op­ment aid sup­port to Nicaragua. Thus, direct dis­burse­ments to the gov­ern­ment were frozen and the con­clu­sion of a new Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­gramme (ICP) was post­poned. Since that time, devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion in Nicaragua has fea­tured, notably, mul­ti­lat­er­al sup­port and a con­sid­er­able amount of aid to the NGOs in the country.

Since 2018, Lux­em­bourg has con­tin­ued to pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant sup­port to Nicaraguan civ­il soci­ety in rela­tion to the pro­mo­tion of human rights through a project by the NGO Front Line Defend­ers to sup­port human rights activists. The activ­i­ties of FASOC, the mul­ti-donor fund to sup­port Nicaraguan civ­il soci­ety, which brings togeth­er five donors and is imple­ment­ed by Oxfam, had to be trans­ferred in 2021, fol­low­ing the ban on Oxfam oper­at­ing in Nicaragua. Fund­ing for the mul­ti­lat­er­al school can­teens project to address the food and nutri­tion­al inse­cu­ri­ty of chil­dren in the north and north-east of Nicaragua through the World Food Pro­gramme (WFP) con­tin­ued in 2021.

Two Lux­em­bour­gish NGOs, Frères des hommes and Terre des hommes, imple­ment­ed activ­i­ties co-financed by the MFA in 2021, tar­get­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic par­tic­i­pa­tion, agri­cul­tur­al advi­so­ry ser­vices, voca­tion­al train­ing and the care of chil­dren and young peo­ple liv­ing in poor­er and deprived districts.