Cabo Verde

There have been about 15 high-lev­el vis­its, includ­ing the vis­it to Cabo Verde by His Roy­al High­ness Grand Duke Hen­ri, in March 2015. Lux­em­bourg has been work­ing in this part­ner coun­try since 1993 and is now one of the archipelago’s main donors, because since it joined the cat­e­go­ry of mid­dle-income coun­tries in 2008 most oth­er donors have withdrawn.

As a result of the health cri­sis, the pro­grammes of the fourth Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­gramme (ICP), which were to close at the end of 2020, were extend­ed for an addi­tion­al year. The mem­o­ran­da of under­stand­ing for the pro­grammes of the new ​“Devel­op­ment — Cli­mate — Ener­gy” ICP (DCEICP, 2021 – 2025) were signed at the 21^st part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing, held in Jan­u­ary 2022 in Lux­em­bourg in the pres­ence of six min­is­ters from both coun­tries, includ­ing Min­is­ter Fay­ot, Car­ole Dieschbourg (Min­is­ter for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate and Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment) and Claude Turmes (Min­is­ter for Ener­gy and Spa­tial Plan­ning). The DCEICP marks the first oppor­tu­ni­ty for the imple­men­ta­tion of a whole-of-gov­ern­ment approach to the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion, intend­ed to strength­en the impact of pub­lic invest­ment in sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. This includes all the Lux­em­bourg actors and sources of financ­ing like­ly to con­tribute to it, in order to improve the coher­ence of devel­op­ment actions and syn­er­gies between them. The pro­grammes will be financed both by the Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion Fund and the Cli­mate and Ener­gy Fund, with a total indica­tive bud­get of EUR84 million.

In 2022, the Nation­al Sta­tis­tics Insti­tute of Cabo Verde (INE) began prepar­ing for the imple­men­ta­tion of the fourth nation­al sur­vey on house­hold rev­enue and expen­di­ture, which will be co-financed by the gov­ern­ment of Cabo Verde in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the World Bank, the Unit­ed Nations and the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion. The updat­ed data col­lect­ed will be used to improve pover­ty reduc­tion poli­cies, such as social pro­tec­tion. The sur­vey will also pro­vide impor­tant data for mon­i­tor­ing the DCEICP. The Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion also decid­ed in 2022 to sup­port the cre­ation of this sys­tem in order to enable employ­ees of the Min­istry of For­eign Affairs, Region­al Coop­er­a­tion and Inte­gra­tion (MNECIR) to have all the tools required for car­ry­ing out their dai­ly tasks avail­able in a sin­gle envi­ron­ment. While the direct ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the project are main­ly MNECIR work­ers, inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment part­ners and civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions also ben­e­fit from this new system.

In 2022, there were five Lux­em­bour­gish NGOs work­ing in Cabo Verde, fund­ed by the MFA: Beete­buerg Hëlleft (basic edu­ca­tion), ECPAT Lux­em­bourg (gen­der-based vio­lence), OGBL Sol­i­dar­ité Syn­di­cale (trade union train­ing), Athenée Action Human­i­taire (edu­ca­tion and pro­mo­tion of renew­able ener­gies), and Guiden an Scouten fir eng Welt (edu­ca­tion and voca­tion­al training).