Prevention and resilience

In line with the Sendai Frame­work for Dis­as­ter Risk Reduc­tion adopt­ed in March 2015, the MFA allo­cates at least 5% of its human­i­tar­i­an action bud­get to financ­ing activ­i­ties in the area of dis­as­ter pre­ven­tion, resilience and risk reduction.

In line with this approach, the Min­istry sup­ports its human­i­tar­i­an part­ners in imple­ment­ing pre­ven­tive mea­sures such as ini­tia­tives to strength­en local capac­i­ties, risk assess­ment, mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems, ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems and pre-posi­tion­ing of relief items. The Min­istry encour­ages its part­ners to pro­tect the envi­ron­ment and to inte­grate cli­mate change adap­ta­tion strate­gies into their human­i­tar­i­an projects. Pre­ven­tion and resilience make up the third pil­lar of Lux­em­bourg human­i­tar­i­an action, both upstream and down­stream of the emer­gency and tran­si­tion phases.

In addi­tion, in 2020 Lux­em­bourg con­tin­ued its sup­port to the Niger Min­istry of Human­i­tar­i­an Affairs and Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment under the bilat­er­al human­i­tar­i­an part­ner­ship for the imple­men­ta­tion of flood risk reduc­tion activ­i­ties. Lux­em­bourg also sup­ports the pre­ven­tion projects of its part­ner NGOs with many con­tri­bu­tions to var­i­ous projects by Friend­ship Lux­em­bourg in Bangladesh, two Lux­em­bourg Red Cross projects in Niger and Mada­gas­car, a project by the Fon­da­tion Car­i­tas in Laos and a project by Hand­i­cap Inter­na­tion­al Lux­em­bourg in Myan­mar. Final­ly, the Min­istry sup­port­ed the Unit­ed Nations Office for Dis­as­ter Risk Reduc­tion (UNDRR) in its efforts to strength­en the resilience of nations and com­mu­ni­ties fac­ing disasters.

In addi­tion, with the aim of con­tribut­ing to efforts on pre­vent­ing and com­bat­ing sex­u­al vio­lence, Lux­em­bourg financed a study by the ICRC on sex­u­al vio­lence in South Sudan and the Cen­tral African Republic.