Our activities

LuxDev works in 15 countries on four continents. The Agency is active in Africa (Benin, Cabo Verde, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Rwanda and Senegal), Latin America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua), Europe (Kosovo, Ukraine), and South-East Asia (Laos, Vietnam and Mongolia).

For each of the Luxembourg Cooperation's partner countries, an Indicative Cooperation Programme (ICP) is adopted by the governments of Luxembourg and the respective partner country. The ICP is a multi-annual programme, which identifies the key areas of cooperation (sectors, geographical areas, methods of intervention) and the indicative multi-annual budget allocated to the programme. It shows the long-term commitment that binds the Luxembourg Cooperation to its partner countries.

In every country, a country office or a regional office, which shares its premises with the official Luxembourg diplomatic missions, represents the Agency. The programmes implemented in Mongolia are managed directly from the Agency's headquarters in Luxembourg.

Evaluation

Evaluation is a tool for continuous improvement, for efficient Development Cooperation as well as increased transparency and mutual accountability. LuxDev’s evaluation policy is based on the guiding principles and criteria for evaluation of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and derived from the general strategy of the Luxembourg Development Cooperation – on the way to 2030.

Evaluation: the systematic and objective assessment of an on-going or completed project, programme or policy, its design, implementation and results. The aim is to determine the relevance and fulfilment of objectives, development efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. An evaluation should provide information that is credible and useful, enabling the incorporation of lessons learned into the decision–making process of both recipients and donors.

Source: OECD / DAC: Glossary of key terms in evaluation and results based management

In principle, LuxDev systematically performs internal and independent mid-term and final evaluations of all its projects and programmes.

The evaluations are driven by the Evaluations, Quality and Knowledge Management Department, which reports to the General Directorate of the Agency.

LuxDev systematically recruits consultants and pays particular attention to the use of local expertise in the evaluation teams. The impartiality and independence of these evaluations facilitate the dissemination and use of lessons learned within the Agency.

The evaluation exercise is a privileged moment of partnership, exchange and learning between all stakeholders of an intervention. The involvement of the counterpart contributes to capacity building in the field of evaluation in the partner countries.

Evaluation summary reports are systematically published on the LuxDev website. Access to the full report can be requested by email to the Agency (evaluations@luxdev.lu).

The evaluation reports are written by independent experts, hence the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of LuxDev or the Luxembourg Development Cooperation.

Other activities

Guided by the principles of development effectiveness and complying with Luxembourg’s international commitments, in addition to projects commissioned by the Luxembourg Government, LuxDev also implements projects on behalf of other international donors.

LuxDev offers its proven capacities for high-quality deliverables and operational flexibility to third-party donors seeking a reliable partner to implement their development cooperation policies in line with their international commitments.

These interventions are linked to the project commissioned by the Luxembourg Government, intentionally seeking synergies and complementarities. They are realised in our Partner countries and in our priority sectors where we have a comparative advantage.

Within the framework of the Global Partnership for Development Effectiveness, LuxDev’s Activities for ATDs also contribute to enhancing coherence and harmonisation in development cooperation and to reducing transaction costs for local partners that are often required to engage in dialogue with several donors simultaneously.