Luxembourg Development and cooperation strategies Luxembourg‘s development cooperation is strongly committed to poverty eradication, particularly in least developed countries, and through the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Today, Luxembourg comes third among the countries that exceed the United Nations target of 0.7% of GNI in official development aid (in 2009, ODA accounted for about 1.04% of GNI) and Luxembourg’s authorities are determined to maintain this effort, especially in these times of crisis. Luxembourg provides ODA through bilateral cooperation, multilateral cooperation, and NGOs. Priority sectors are health, education (including vocational training and access to labour markets), and integrated rural development with a strong emphasis on water and sanitation. Luxembourg also supports micro-finance initiatives, both at the conceptual and operational level. Policies and priorities in Indonesia In 2007, Luxembourg contributed €100,000 towards the reconstruction of a school and community centre in Lambada Lhok (through SOS Children’s Villages) and €170,000 for the reconstruction of family housing in Yogyakarta (through Caritas). After the inundations in Jakarta in January 2007, Luxembourg provided €50,000 as humanitarian aid through Caritas, and donated €100,000 through UNICEF for refrigeration and storage facilities for animal vaccines, to help eradicate avian influenza.
In 2009, the Government of Luxembourg donated €200,000 to two NGOs (Caritas Luxembourg and Care) to provide emergency aid to the population of Pariaman, a district in Sumatra that was hit by an earthquake in October of that year. It also provided €105,000 to the Unity Foundation to co-finance two projects in education sector. In addition, the Embassy of Luxembourg financed a small-scale project (€20,000) in the province of West Papua, also in the education field. Types of assistance and programming During 2007-2009, official development assistance from Luxembourg to Indonesia was approximately €1.0 million, all of which in the form of grants, which were mostly given to NGOs working in education or post-disaster reconstruction.
Luxembourg – Disbursements of ODA to Indonesia, 2009 (€ million) 2007
2008
2009
Education Post-disaster reconstruction
0.06
0.20
0.13
0.42
-
0.20
TOTAL
0.48
0.20
0.33
During 2006-2008, Luxembourg contributed about €343,000 to an NGO (the Unity Foundation) to support development activities in the education sector.
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