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Luxembourg Cooperation Annual Report 2020
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Sahel

Regional cooperation

Introduction

In 2020 Luxembourg continued its commitment to governance, human rights and health at the regional level in the Sahel. In the area of combating communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, Luxembourg contributed to the project by international NGO ENDA Santé. This seeks to contribute to the UNAIDS 95-95-95 treatment targets in nine countries in the sub-region (Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal) and has continued its support to the partnership between the Luxembourg Institute of Health, the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, ENDA Santé, Luxembourg’s Laboratoire National de Santé and the Luxembourgish NGO Stop Aids Now/Access to improve access to diagnostics and treatment for those infected with sexually transmitted diseases in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. This commitment in the health sector goes hand in hand with the partnership with the World Health Organization in West Africa working towards universal health coverage.

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Beyond the health sec­tor, since 2018 Lux­em­bourg has been sup­port­ing the Unit­ed Nations Food and Agri­cul­ture Office (FAO) to improve the pro­tec­tion of human health, food safe­ty and sus­tain­able trade in food in Sene­gal and Burk­i­na Faso. The year 2020 also saw the con­tin­u­a­tion of the Agri+ project imple­ment­ed by the NGOSOS Faim. This aims to trans­form financ­ing con­di­tions for fam­i­ly agri­cul­ture in Burk­i­na Faso and Mali.

In terms of gov­er­nance, Lux­em­bourg has con­tin­ued its sup­port for the tech­ni­cal assis­tance cen­tre in the area of build­ing macro-eco­nom­ic man­age­ment capac­i­ties for the Inter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund. In 2020, the cen­tre organ­ised 11 sem­i­nars and six immer­sion ses­sions, which deliv­ered train­ing to 459 exec­u­tives. Sup­port from Lux­em­bourg also made it pos­si­ble for train­ing to be deliv­ered in the finan­cial and bank­ing sec­tor by ATTF/​House of Train­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Cen­tral Bank of West African States (BCEAO).

Lux­em­bourg is also active­ly pur­su­ing its com­mit­ment to digi­ti­sa­tion and research, and in Octo­ber 2020 launched the project LuxWays. The aim of this ambi­tious project is to devel­op cyber­se­cu­ri­ty skills in the sub-region of West Africa through the sup­port and train­ing of 10 expert teachers/​researchers to ensure that a train­ing cur­ricu­lum is put in place to train high­ly qual­i­fied local pro­fes­sion­als, in the long term (engi­neers and doc­tors), who would then join the labour mar­ket. The UCAD (Dakar) and the Joseph Ki-Zer­bo Uni­ver­si­ty (Oua­gadougou) are par­tic­i­pat­ing as bench­mark uni­ver­si­ties in West Africa, with the SnT (Uni­ver­si­ty of Lux­em­bourg) as a bench­mark in Luxembourg.

Its long-stand­ing com­mit­ment in the Sahel led Lux­em­bourg to join the Sahel Alliance, of which it has been an active mem­ber since 2018. The Sahel Alliance seeks to improve coor­di­na­tion of the devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion actions of the var­i­ous donors and to rein­force their impact on the ground.