The development cooperation fund in 2024

Established by the amended law of 6 January 1996 on development cooperation and humanitarian action, the Development Cooperation Fund (DCF) is an instrument enabling the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to carry out development programmes and projects extending over several years. The state budget provided the DCF with €369.44 million in 2024; added to which are the assets available on 1 January, i.e €11.35 million, as well as revenue during the year (€469,076.62). Revenue includes repayments by NGOs and agencies of undisbursed funds from projects co-funded by the Ministry.

In 2024, a total of €360.79 million was disbursed through the DCF. LuxDev, as the state’s principal agent responsible for the implementation of projects and programmes falling under the heading of governmental bilateral cooperation, benefited from the majority of this amount, i.e. €143.07 million (39.65%). Humanitarian aid was credited with €96.12 million (26.64%). Next come non-governmental development organisations, which received €43.91 million (12.17%) as part of the co-financing of their projects and programmes and to cover some of their administrative costs, and multilateral organisations and agencies (€37.27 million, i.e. 10.33%). The balance was accounted for by projects implemented by the Ministry directly with other partners (€36.03 million, i.e. 10%) and programme support (€4.4 million, i.e. 1.21%.).