Breakdown of ODA by intervention sector in 2020

The fol­low­ing table (ODA by sec­tor) gives the break­down by sec­tor of all Lux­em­bourg ODA expen­di­ture in 2020.

In 2020, Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion con­tin­ued to focus on sec­tors falling into the cat­e­go­ry of infra­struc­ture and social ser­vices, which made up 27.98% of total aid (and 38.32% of bilat­er­al aid). Edu­ca­tion, health, population/​health and fer­til­i­ty pol­i­cy, water dis­tri­b­u­tion and san­i­ta­tion as well as sup­port for gov­er­nance and civ­il soci­ety all fall with­in that category.

The cat­e­go­ry of infra­struc­ture and eco­nom­ic ser­vices made up 6.91% of aid (9.97% of bilat­er­al aid), the two main sub-cat­e­gories being invest­ments in the sec­tor of banks and finan­cial ser­vices (inclu­sive finance) and communications.

The cat­e­go­ry of the pro­duc­tion sec­tor made up 5.80% of ODA in 2020 (8.39% of bilat­er­al aid), main­ly allo­cat­ed to agri­cul­ture, forestry and fisheries.

Sup­port for mul­ti-sec­tor and cross-cut­ting issues rep­re­sent­ed 6.81% of ODA (9.84% of bilat­er­al aid). COVID-19 real­lo­ca­tions were main­ly record­ed under this category.

Final­ly, we should note that, under mul­ti­lat­er­al ODA, a large part of the invest­ments (88.68%) can­not be allo­cat­ed to a pre­cise sec­tor. This is due to the nature of mul­ti­lat­er­al aid, which is made of up direct con­tri­bu­tions, both manda­to­ry and vol­un­tary, to the mul­ti­lat­er­al agen­cies’ gen­er­al budgets.