Nicaragua

However, as a result of the social and political crisis that began in April 2018, Luxembourg made changes to its development aid support to Nicaragua. Thus, direct disbursements to the government were frozen and the conclusion of a new Indicative Cooperation Programme (ICP) was postponed. Since that time, development cooperation in Nicaragua has featured, notably, multilateral support and a considerable amount of aid to the NGOs in the country.

Since 2018, Luxembourg has continued to provide significant support to Nicaraguan civil society in relation to the promotion of human rights through a project by the NGO Front Line Defenders to support human rights activists. The activities of FASOC, the multi-donor fund to support Nicaraguan civil society, which brings together five donors and is implemented by Oxfam, had to be transferred in 2021, following the ban on Oxfam operating in Nicaragua. Funding for the multilateral school canteens project to address the food and nutritional insecurity of children in the north and north-east of Nicaragua through the World Food Programme (WFP) continued in 2021.

Two Luxembourgish NGOs, Frères des hommes and Terre des hommes, implemented activities co-financed by the MFA in 2021, targeting democratic participation, agricultural advisory services, vocational training and the care of children and young people living in poorer and deprived districts.