Nicaragua

The tourism, health and voca­tion­al train­ing sec­tors were the tra­di­tion­al pri­or­i­ty areas for the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion in Nicaragua. How­ev­er, because of the socio-polit­i­cal cri­sis the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion was forced to end bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion and close the embassy’s offices in Man­agua in Feb­ru­ary 2022.

Since that time, devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion in Nicaragua has fea­tured, notably, mul­ti­lat­er­al sup­port and a con­sid­er­able amount of aid to the NGOs in the coun­try. The Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion sup­ports the World Food Pro­gramme (WFP) in a school can­teens project to address the food and nutri­tion­al inse­cu­ri­ty of chil­dren in the north and north-east of Nicaragua. Since 2018, Lux­em­bourg has con­tin­ued to pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant sup­port to Nicaraguan civ­il soci­ety in rela­tion to the pro­mo­tion of human rights, in par­tic­u­lar through a project by the NGO Front Line Defend­ers to sup­port human rights defend­ers. In view of the dete­ri­o­ra­tion of the sit­u­a­tion in recent years for human rights defend­ers in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion has decid­ed to extend its sup­port to El Sal­vador, Guatemala and Hon­duras in addi­tion to Nicaragua.