Contributing to Luxembourg's Development Cooperation

Programme support manages and facilitates operations to deploy human resources for cooperation. Specifically, this relates to junior professional officers (JPOs) and volunteers at the United Nations, junior professionals in delegation (JPDs) at the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS), as well as the junior technical assistants (JTAs) in the framework of a vocational internship programme managed by Lux-Development, the Luxembourg agency for development cooperation, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade.

In order to give young graduates the opportunity to acquire further training and improve their skills by a first experience in Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation, the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs also offers field placements or work placements, with a salary paid for those lasting four weeks or longer. The cooperation volunteer service (SVC), managed by the National Youth Service (SNJ), is the other element of this varied range of programmes for young graduates.

In addition, the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs grants financial support to aid workers working on behalf of various accredited Luxembourgish NGDOs. In order to enable the members of these NGDOs to also participate in development programmes and projects and to assist the target populations, the law makes provision for development cooperation leave of six days per year per beneficiary. Development cooperation leave and aid worker status are granted in the form of ministerial orders.