Flagship activities
Driving growth, fostering prosperity
Economic growth is essential to improving living conditions and eradicating poverty in developing countries. To contribute to this, LuxDev mobilises a range of complementary levers, including strengthening skills and employability, support for entrepreneurship and local economic development, improving access to financial services, and promoting digitalisation and innovation as drivers of productivity and inclusion. By combining these instruments in a coherent manner, the projects and programmes implemented by the Agency support the transformation of partner economies towards more inclusive, resilient and competitive models, helping to ensure sustainable livelihoods.
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Skills development and labour market integration: a springboard to full employment
LuxDev helps to improve the entire education-training-employment continuum in almost all the countries where it operates highlighting the strategic importance of this area of intervention. By equipping young people and professionals with skills aligned with labour market needs, the Agency contributes to the emergence of a skilled, competitive workforce capable of supporting local economic development, while also fostering more fulfilling career – and life – pathways.
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Economic development: the foundation of inclusive prosperity
Through an integrated approach that simultaneously addresses access to finance, the structuring of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the mobilisation of responsible capital, LuxDev contributes to the creation of sustainable economic opportunities for all.
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Digitalisation as a driver of modernisation
LuxDev supports digitalisation as a lever for economic inclusion and the creation of opportunities, by strengthening digital governance, cybersecurity and digital skills. Its initiatives, implemented in Togo, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Benin and Rwanda, aim to broaden access to technologies and foster a secure and inclusive digital transformation.
Improving access to essential services, creating inclusive societies
To contribute to development in its social dimensions, LuxDev works to strengthen essential services that ensure the well-being, dignity, and fundamental rights of the most vulnerable populations. Despite varied contexts – characterised by healthcare systems undergoing modernisation, inadequate sanitation and water supply systems, judicial services seeking greater efficiency, weakened civic spaces, and evolving migration dynamics –, interventions in the sectors of health, water and sanitation, and governance pursue the common ambition of building more inclusive, equitable, and resilient societies.
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Health as a factor in population well-being
In addition to having completed the Health and social protection programme in Senegal and formulating a new programme focused on public health and hospital services in Cambodia, in 2025, LuxDev continued its efforts in this sector in Kosovo, Mongolia and Laos, combining infrastructure modernisation, skills development and prevention to ensure equitable access to quality care.
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Wider access to essential services
Access to safe drinking water and quality basic infrastructure is a key factor of well-being, public health, and human dignity. By improving hygiene, reducing exposure to waterborne diseases, and alleviating the daily burdens faced by populations, these services play a key role in reducing inequalities and strengthening social cohesion. In this context, LuxDev is committed to promoting the supply of and access to drinking water and sanitation in Cabo Verde, Rwanda and Laos.
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A more effective justice system, accessible to all
Access to fair justice is a fundamental pillar of human development. In 2025, actions carried on in Laos helped improve the quality of legal education, strengthen institutional capacities and bring legal services closer to communities.
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Supporting civil society as a driver of inclusivity
Civil society organisations play a key role in promoting citizen participation, defending rights and ensuring the inclusion of marginalised groups. In 2025, LuxDev intensified its support to strengthen their organisational structure, autonomy and capacity to operate in sometimes fragile environments.
Protecting natural resources, ensuring the resilience of ecosystems and communities
With regard to the environmental dimensions of development, LuxDev focuses its efforts on protecting natural resources, advancing the energy transition and strengthening the resilience of ecosystems and communities to the impacts of climate change. Its interventions, financed by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the United Nations and supported by co-investments from the private sector, pursue a shared ambition to promote greener development pathways, underpinned by stronger environmental governance.
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Promoting the responsible use of natural resources
The sustainable management of global resources is a key lever for preserving ecosystems, supporting livelihoods and building climate resilience. In addition to projects that have been completed in Burkina Faso and recently launched in Togo, LuxDev promotes the responsible use of natural resources in Costa Rica, Rwanda and Benin.
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Strengthening climate action
In response to the intensification of climate risks in some of its areas of intervention, LuxDev supports integrated approaches that strengthen environmental governance, territorial adaptation and the transition to more sustainable energy models.
