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Cash-strapped humanitarian system faces 2023 with shrinking donor base

As Ukraine continues to dominate headlines, the humanitarian system faces the coming year with dual challenges of increasing financing requirements and a small group of donors, led by the United States, carrying most of the load. “We worry that the needs in 2023 will be even larger. We need to engage to expand the donor base,” says Jakob Wernerman at the Swedish aid agency Sida.

News January 20, 2023

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Brazil seeks more donor funding for Amazon Fund to fight deforestation

Brazil welcomes the unfreezing of more than NOK 6 billion in “old” Norwegian aid sitting in the Amazon...

News January 16, 2023

In brief: Danish minister to Ukraine for discussions on further support

Denmark’s new Development and Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen made his first visit abroad to Ukraine last...

News January 18, 2023

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Swedish coalition deal rolls back aid, intensifies discord over aid policy

Swedish development policy has become a hotly contested issue since the new government alliance abolished...

News December 31, 2022

End of a rocky year for Swedish aid

NGO leaders describe the SEK 13.8 billion roll back in Swedish aid to fund refugees from Ukraine last...

December 31, 2022

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Indigenous groups in Guyana raise alarm over historic issuance of carbon credits by Norwegian-funded certifier

The government of Guyana has been issued 33 million tonnes worth of forest carbon credits by ART, a certifier...

News December 23, 2022

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Evaluation: Big Pharma shies away from CEPI due to equitable access requirements

The Oslo-based vaccine initiative CEPI has over a few short years grown into a “credible and prominent...

News December 19, 2022

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Local humanitarian actors still poorly funded. After 7 years, UN agencies and NGOs hold tight to donor funds

Direct funding to local NGOs has not increased despite a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and seven...

News December 15, 2022

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New Danish centrist government opens for a more consensus-driven aid policy

A historic Red-Blue government has taken office in Denmark, pledging to hammer out a new development...

News December 15, 2022

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ODA must evolve, but cautiously, says the new guardian of OECD aid Carsten Staur

Carsten Staur, the newly appointed Chair of the OECD’s aid watchdog DAC, says there is huge pressure...

News December 09, 2022

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The ‘hollow’ promise of loss and damage

In the absence of concrete financial commitments, the loss and damage fund agreed at the COP27 climate...

News November 30, 2022

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Budget deal paves way for huge Ukraine package on top of Norway’s aid budget

In a last-minute aid deal with the Socialist Left Party, Norway’s government has committed to a large...

News November 30, 2022

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OECD: Race for DAC helm comes down to a Danish-Norwegian duel

The contest to become Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee is now down to a tight race...

News November 29, 2022

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Outcry from indigenous groups prompts change of rules in LEAF forest carbon scheme

Indigenous organisations in the Brazilian state of Acre were kept in the dark for almost a year about...

News November 18, 2022

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Swedish interests take centre stage in new government’s aid budget

The new Conservative-led Swedish government places the foreign policy and security interests of Sweden...

News November 20, 2022

In Brief: EDFI chief Søren Peter Andreasen moves ‘home’ to take up key position at IFU

News November 22, 2022

How Nordic donors have grown apart

While the aid policies of the four Nordic donors have grown apart over the last two decades, Denmark...

News November 11, 2022

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Growing frustration among indigenous leaders with forest carbon scheme LEAF

Indigenous leaders criticise the billion-dollar forest carbon credit scheme LEAF, backed by Norway, the...

News November 03, 2022

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Swedish aid freeze paves way for Norway to grab position as largest Nordic donor

With aid spending locked at SEK 56 billion annually for the next three years, Sweden may be about to...

News October 28, 2022

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Huge dilemmas for forest deal in Brazil as Norway bets on Lula’s win

The Norwegian Climate Ministry is hoping that a presidential win by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil...

News October 20, 2022

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Sweden turns away from UN, new development minister in charge

Johan Forssell has been appointed Sweden’s Minister for Development and Trade with special responsibility...

News October 18, 2022

Sweden drops 1% of GNI target, makes aid a tool of migration policy

Sweden is abandoning the goal of keeping aid at 1 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI), the incoming...

News October 14, 2022

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Evaluation calls out flaws in ACT-A, strong facility needed to meet the next pandemic

An evaluation of the ACT-A covid partnership points to multiple shortcomings, especially the exclusion...

October 12, 2022

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Norway offers no money, no plan, and no narrative for increasing aid

Norway’s economy is set to grow by 60 per cent over two years, fuelled by skyrocketing energy prices...

News October 11, 2022

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Proposes historic reduction in Norwegian aid level to 0.75% of GNI

In the state budget proposal for 2023, the Norwegian government aims to spend NOK 43.8 billion on development...

News October 06, 2022

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Climate Ministry defends Indonesia forest pact, experts double down on critique of secrecy clauses

Secrecy clauses in an agreement on reducing deforestation, signed recently by Norway and Indonesia, do...

News October 04, 2022

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NGOs reluctant to take Danish aid money for Rwanda

As negotiations over the establishment of a Danish asylum centre in Rwanda proceed, non-government organisations...

News September 29, 2022

In Brief: Fateful days for the Swedish golden standard in global aid

The Swedish aid community is holding its breath as four parties in a centre-right alliance negotiate...

News September 29, 2022

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Global Fund falls short of USD 18 billion fundraising target, no boost from Nordic donors

At the seventh replenishment of the Global Fund last week, five G7 countries announced significant increases...

News September 27, 2022

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Norwegian academics say secrecy clauses in new forest pact with Indonesia are ‘totally unacceptable’

Norway’s new forest agreement with Indonesia amounts to “political censorship” and contradicts basic...

News September 21, 2022

Danes break deadlock in climate talks, offering funds for loss and damage

Denmark is the first UN member to pledge funding to compensate poor countries for “loss and damage” due...

News September 21, 2022

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New Indonesia-Norway forest pact: sweeping confidentiality clauses, weaker language on indigenous peoples, NGOs

Norway appears to have made key concessions to reach a new forest deal with Indonesia this week. The...

September 14, 2022

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Slow progress on USD 1.7b pledge. Indigenous leaders call for more transparency from donors

At the climate summit in Glasgow last year, a handful of donors made a historic commitment to support...

News September 08, 2022

Talks continue over outsourcing Denmark’s asylum obligations to Rwanda

The controversial Danish proposal to send asylum seekers arriving in Denmark to Rwanda for processing...

News September 09, 2022

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Capital crunch forces Danish IFU to turn down new projects

The Danish development finance institution IFU has tight liquidity, poor profit over time, and faces...

Business September 07, 2022

In brief: Norway joins World Bank’s pandemic prevention fund

Norway is the sole Nordic country to be a founding donor of the new pandemic prevention fund, established...

News September 13, 2022

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Budget 2023: Ukraine and efforts to stem migration dominate Danish aid

Danish aid will grow by almost DKK 3 billion next year, almost equivalent to the amount of aid the government...

News September 01, 2022

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Report challenges ‘false narrative’ of covid vaccine hesitancy in low-income countries

Claims by donors and big pharma that low COVID-19 vaccine coverage in countries like DRC, Haiti, Nigeria,...

News August 26, 2022

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Budget proposal 2023: Finnish aid budget shrinks in wake of Ukraine war

Finnish aid will drop by EUR 87 million next year, according to the Foreign Ministry’s budget proposal....

News August 19, 2022

In Brief: Sweden buys Ukraine wheat to mitigate hunger crisis

Sweden will fund procurement and delivery of at least 40,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat to countries at...

News September 05, 2022

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Norway bets on US charity as keystone in new forest carbon trading regime

With financing from Norwegian climate aid, a US charity – Emergent – has been established to act as a...

August 04, 2022

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Call for new World Bank business model to scale up risk taking and financing

Global investors want the World Bank to take more risk so they can scale up climate financing. A White...

Business June 17, 2022

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Norway finally releases climate forest payment earned by Guyana a decade ago

A solar power project in Guyana will be financed with Norwegian climate forest money, the Norwegian Climate...

News June 24, 2022

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Donor-funded ‘price guarantee’ to jump-start market for forest carbon credits

Norway and the United Kingdom plan to use USD 450 million in aid funds to jump-start the LEAF forest...

News June 20, 2022

Rolls back most of the proposed cuts in UN support

After three weeks of parliamentary negotiations, Norway’s Labour-Centre government has agreed in a deal...

News June 14, 2022

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Analysis: Cuts reflect deep cracks in Nordic aid alliance

A detailed review of aid cuts being prepared by Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to finance the cost of caring...

May 31, 2022

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Swedish, Norwegian aid cuts not written in stone, decisive weeks ahead

Huge amounts have been carved out of the Swedish and Norwegian aid budgets to fund the reception of Ukrainian...

News May 30, 2022

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Head of CEPI calls for more non-aid funds to finance pandemic vaccine research

The Oslo-based vaccine agency CEPI depends on aid for 40 per cent of its financing. CEPI’s CEO Richard...

News May 20, 2022

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Nordic aid budget round-up: Historic cuts in Sweden, Norwegian aid could sink to lowest level since 2008

Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are tapping USD 1.6 billion from their aid budgets to fund domestic costs...

News May 13, 2022

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Norfund reports a record surplus, but outlook is less positive

Norfund invested most of its funds in Africa in 2021 and had a record surplus of NOK 5.8 billion (USD...

May 16, 2022

Scatec and Swedfund write down value of Ukraine investments

The Norwegian renewable energy company Scatec has written down the value of five solar power plants in...

Business May 06, 2022

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Brazil’s Amazon Fund: the origin story

Nervous but hopeful, the visionary Brazilian forester Tasso Azevedo travelled to the Bali climate summit...

News May 03, 2022

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IMF and global health leaders call for a strategic shift in COVID-19 response

The international covid response mechanism, the ACT-Accelerator, has focused mainly on vaccines to the...

News April 29, 2022

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Aid level plunged to ten-year low in 2021 as Norway saw highest growth on record

The Norwegian petroleum-driven economy grew at the fastest rate on record last year, while aid dropped...

News April 24, 2022

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Calls for an independent commission to investigate Norway’s gigantic rainforest initiative

The NOK 60 billion rainforest initiative, the largest aid programme in Norwegian history, has run into...

News April 08, 2022

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UN agency works to transform agriculture as Ukraine war hits smallholder farmers in Africa

The UN’s agriculture agency IFAD says spiking fertilizer prices on top of record-high energy costs triggered...

News April 05, 2022

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World Bank refers fewer cases for criminal investigation, no uptick in corruption during pandemic

The World Bank’s anti-corruption unit routinely refers findings to national authorities for criminal...

Business April 01, 2022

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The Bombardier Sweden affair: World Bank probe has a long reach, but convictions can be elusive

In a Swedish probe triggered by an on-going World Bank investigation into a project in Azerbaijan, prosecutors...

Business April 01, 2022

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Famine in Yemen looms as donors fall short and food prices soar in wake of Ukraine war

A pledging meeting for Yemen hosted by the UN, Sweden, and Switzerland ended with a record funding gap...

News March 18, 2022

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Donors pledge USD 1.5b to fight next pandemic, ODA-eligibility of funding is up in the air

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) has raised USD 1.5 billion for the next five...

News March 10, 2022

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War in Ukraine casts long shadow over other humanitarian crises and COVID funding

The brutal war in the middle of Europe requires a massive humanitarian response from Western donors at...

News March 06, 2022

Ukrainian windmill, co-funded by four Nordic DFIs, hit by Russian rockets

Nordic aid-funded DFIs have invested EUR 80 million in Ukraine. One of their projects, the country’s...

Business March 04, 2022

World Bank revamps trust fund portfolio, answers Norwegian auditor’s criticisms

The World Bank pushes back against the Norwegian Auditor General’s claims that trust funds managed by...

News March 01, 2022

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Unsolved dispute over counting COVID vaccine donations as aid leaves loopholes

After seven months of wrangling about how to report COVID-19 vaccines donated to developing countries...

News February 25, 2022

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UN currency swap for Afghanistan edges close to launch

The UN and the World Bank are piecing together an unprecedented currency swap mechanism that aims to...

News February 18, 2022

Nordic block is third largest contributor to IDA, World Bank’s fund for low-income countries

Updated. The five Nordic countries constitute the third largest donor to the World Bank’s IDA arm, which...

News January 22, 2022

Donors ignore urgent pandemic funding appeal, covid response is ‘flying on fumes’

Donors have given only 5 per cent of the cash most urgently needed this year to finance covid tools for...

News February 10, 2022

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Three days in Oslo: Norway walks diplomatic tightrope with the Taliban

The first talks with the Taliban to be held in a Western country marked a high-risk diplomatic feat for...

News February 03, 2022

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Joint diplomats’ statement details outcomes of Oslo talks with Taliban

The US and Europe recognise steps taken by the Taliban to ease access for male and female humanitarian...

News January 27, 2022

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Interview. New WHO special envoy on covid: Yodi walks into the lion’s den

Ayoade Alakija has been one of the harshest critics of the international pandemic response effort – the...

News January 25, 2022

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Auditor sheds light on hidden costs of Norwegian grants to World Bank funds

Billions of crowns channelled through World Bank trust funds are at odds with key goals in Norway’s aid...

News December 31, 2021

OECD donors fail to agree on rules for reporting covid vaccine donations as aid

Despite efforts to reach agreement about rules for reporting COVID-19 vaccine donations as aid, 2021...

News December 31, 2021

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WHO-led covid response has received only 2% of funding requirements for 2022

G20 donors have provided almost no funding for next year to the multi-agency pandemic response mechanism...

December 17, 2021

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From farmer’s daughter to diplomat. New Development Minister puts agriculture at centre of Norwegian aid

Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, 47, takes over the aid portfolio following a sea change in the Norwegian political...

News December 12, 2021

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African voices missing from review of ACT-A covid response. Expert calls for WHO envoy Carl Bildt to resign

Only a handful of representatives of low-income country governments were consulted in the review of the...

News October 15, 2021

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How a rookie minister navigated the pandemic and reshaped Norwegian aid

During his last week at work, Norway’s Development Minister Dag-Inge Ulstein reflected on a once-in-a-century...

News October 14, 2021

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Norad’s test balloon: separate funding for global public goods from aid

No donor spends more of its aid on global public goods – like climate, oceans and vaccine development...

News September 29, 2021

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Decolonise COVAX: an African critique

As Africa has fallen to the very back of the global vaccine queue, experts are questioning whether COVAX,...

News July 13, 2021

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Rwanda deal fires up debate over Danish plan to export asylum seekers to Africa

A new Danish-Rwandan pact on asylum efforts could be a steppingstone for outsourcing Denmark’s asylum...

News May 15, 2021

New political alliances and Ukraine war are reshaping Nordic aid

Opinion Editorial January 17, 2023

Nordic aid is up for a major remake. In Sweden and Denmark, new political alliances took power in 2022 and the war in Ukraine will dominate policymaking in all four countries in the months to come.

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Support to civil society and independent scientific research appear of little importance to Norway’s new climate and environment deal with Indonesia

Opinion October 07, 2022

Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, has just signed a new climate and environment deal with Indonesia. It appears support to civil society and independent scientific research are not among the priorities, researchers from Chr. Michelsens Institute write.

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The paradox of overcapacity in Africa’s energy sector

Opinion September 16, 2022

Several African countries have a huge overcapacity in the power sector, but consumers lack electricity. Production is often locked into long-term contracts at high prices while the grid remains underdeveloped. As donors and investors push for renewable energy in Africa, they must take a more transparent and holistic approach or risk delaying the transition to clean energy, Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen and Ole Winckler Andersen at DIIS write. 

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Nordic church leaders call on governments to stop using aid to fund global goods

Opinion September 05, 2022

Five Nordic church leaders call for Nordic governments to show solidarity in the face of growing poverty, food insecurity and climate disaster. Don’t use aid to fund vaccines, domestic refugee costs and climate, they write.

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Redirecting funds to the Ukraine crisis will have devastating global humanitarian consequences if aid budgets are not increased

Opinion April 26, 2022

Diverting scarce aid resources risks worsening on-going humanitarian crises around the world. The global consequences of redirecting aid and attention towards the Ukraine response are extremely worrying, Charlotte Slente of Danish Refugee Council writes.

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COVAX and the unfulfilled promise of vaccine sharing

Opinion March 07, 2022

The global vaccine initiative COVAX aimed to procure 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 to accelerate efforts towards vaccine equity. By the end of the year, it had delivered only 910 million doses, more than half of these through donations. Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée and Katerini T. Storeng explain how donated doses came to dominate COVAX’s vaccine supply and they unpack the politics of vaccine sharing.  

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Olusoji Adeyi on global health, narcissistic charity, and neo-dependency

Opinion December 31, 2021

Decades of being drip-fed on deleterious forms of foreign aid have caused African countries and institutions to wither. But they have done so blissfully, until the COVID-19 pandemic unmasked the primordial selfishness of the Global North. Olusoji Adeyi, former Director of Health and Nutrition at the World Bank, challenges donor governments and African leaders to break out of an endless cycle of ineffectual aid.

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Martin Griffiths on UN’s grim humanitarian outlook for 2022

Opinion December 02, 2021

Forty-one billion dollars. That’s what aid agencies need to help people facing war, disease and hunger around the world next year. It’s more than this year. More than ever before, in fact, writes Martin Griffiths, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.

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Supporting indigenous Afghan structures could be a lifeline in new Taliban era

Opinion October 29, 2021

Can linking NGOs to traditional Afghan community institutions create a new humanitarian paradigm, and will the international community be willing to let go? Gry Synnevåg and Karim Merchant reflect on how to support Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

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Rethink financing of global public goods

Opinion Editorial October 11, 2021

As global challenges mount, politicians increasingly view development aid budgets as a source of easy money to fund any and all good things. Whether climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic or the migration crisis, global goods have become integrated with aid, based on a convoluted narrative that equates rich countries’ own interests with the mission of eradicating poverty.

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Church groups call for ‘game-changing’ Food Summit

Opinion September 23, 2021

Four Nordic church groups and Christian Aid say small farmers should be the main focus of the UN Food Summit. Reforming agricultural subsidies and helping farmers transition to agroecology can reduce poverty, conserve biodiversity and address climate change, they write.

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Critical reflections on ten years of the Guyana-Norway REDD+ agreement

Opinion July 03, 2021

The bilateral climate forest agreement was meant to be a model for the world. Instead, it was based on a clunky institutional architecture and stands today as a reminder of why condition-laden ODA projects have little impact on rising deforestation, Andrew Hook and Timothy Laing write.

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Danish PM Frederiksen’s betrayal of Nordic values

Opinion Editorial June 04, 2021

A new Danish law opens for the export of Denmark’s asylum obligations to a third country. Having covered Nordic foreign policy for three decades, we have never seen a betrayal of joint Nordic values on this scale. Social Democratic parties have previously built and defended the UN-based human rights system at home and abroad. Now a Social Democratic prime minister has joined forces with right-wing parties to dismantle it.

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Per Fredrik Pharo: ‘Misleading’ on Guyana

Opinion June 16, 2021

Guyana and Norway have collaborated to promote green development in Guyana while keeping deforestation at low levels since 2009. Norway appreciates that Development Today has been following the collaboration since the start of the partnership. However, a recent article posted on the 4th of June 2021 by Development Today is unfortunately misleading.

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Desmond McNeill: The limitation of bond schemes

Opinion May 08, 2021

A proposed bond scheme inspired by IFFIm, which aims to trigger a massive expansion in aid, won’t work, writes Desmond McNeill at the Centre for Development and Environment. The aid would not be additional and the scheme ignores the key problem of weak states in the neediest countries.

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Peter Sands: We must scale-up the global response to COVID-19. This needs more than vaccines

Opinion April 28, 2021

In many rich countries, discussion of COVID-19 revolves around the pace of vaccine deployment and the steps being taken towards lifting restrictions on social and economic interaction, but in most low- and middle-income countries the picture looks starkly different. Not only are COVID-19 infections and deaths increasing as more transmissible variants take hold, but the knock-on impact on other diseases continues to escalate, writes Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Sony Kapoor: A plan to save lives, tackle climate change and finance the recovery

Opinion April 23, 2021

The international covid pandemic response, ACT-Accelerator, which marks its one-year anniversary, is short USD 20 billion. Addressing climate change will cost many billions more, far exceeding what ODA budgets can cover. Sony Kapoor, CEO of the Nordic think tank NIFTYS, proposes a plan to make these funds available now.

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Jared Rowell, Evan Jones: Forced return of Afghans hampers the pursuit of durable solutions

Opinion April 23, 2021

The principles of safety and dignity must not only guide the pursuit of durable solutions, but also the return of rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan. Successful return involves much more than putting people on a plane. Jared Rowell, Afghanistan Country Director for the Danish Refugee Council, and Evan Jones at the Kabul-based Asia Displacement Solutions Platform write.

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Ulstein’s misstep on vaccine sharing may haunt him at home

Opinion Editorial March 22, 2021

Norway’s Development Minister Dag-Inge Ulstein has been a tireless advocate for global vaccine equity and the government has deployed billions of aid crowns to back up that work. We applaud these efforts, but he has made one big mistake that might now plague him at home.

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Nordic church groups: The only way out of the pandemic is equitable distribution of vaccines

Opinion March 22, 2021

More than 80 per cent of people in Norway, Sweden and Denmark think it is unacceptable for rich countries to buy their way to the front of the vaccine queue, according to a recent survey. Norwegian Church Aid, Act Church of Sweden and DanChurchAid call on Nordic governments to work harder for vaccine equity.

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Nordic Alliance for Tax Justice: Nordic countries break tax promises to world’s poorest, but are given a second chance

Opinion February 10, 2021

Developing countries are facing an unprecedented economic crisis and Covid-19 is only making things worse. This is likely to impact public finances for years to come, derailing the SDGs and increasing poverty and inequality. But there are solutions; tax for development is one of the most crucial of these, the Nordic Alliance for Tax Justice writes.

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Norwegian Foreign Ministry disagrees with DT’s reporting on CEPI discussions in OECD

Opinion January 29, 2021

An article in Development Today on 26 January, stating that Norway and the United Kingdom are blocking an OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) consensus on ODA approval of grants for the Coalition on Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)’s research and development support for vaccines against covid-19, is not correct.

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