DT 18 / 2005

Wangari Maathai considers ‘liaison’ role in de Soto commission

DT has learned that the Kenyan Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai has accepted in principle to be associated with the High-Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor. Maathai is reportedly in close dialogue with the secretariat for the commission. She has indicated that she wants to have a special role as “liaison officer" with civil society.

News November 18, 2005

Government deal ends era of 100% NGO financing

The Danish government is putting an end to a decade of full state financing for large NGOs. From next...

News November 18, 2005

Stoltenberg pushes ahead with GAVI mission

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg once again increases Norway’s lavish contribution to the vaccine initiative,...

News November 18, 2005

Finland funds green energy in C America

On the basis of an interim review presented this week in Helsinki, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs...

News November 18, 2005

Report: ILD contract should have been tendered

The contract for the Norwegian-financed property rights formalisation programme in Tanzania should have...

News November 18, 2005

More Danish aid funds to Pakistan

Denmark has increased its contribution to the victims of the Pakistan earthquake by another DKK 30 million,...

News November 18, 2005

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News November 18, 2005

Swedish water sector aid to Burkina Faso

The Swedish aid agency Sida is tendering for a long-term advisor to the Action Plan for Water Resources...

Business November 18, 2005

Ethiopia out of race for Danish priority status

Just days before Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs’ planned departure for Ethiopia, she cancelled...

News November 18, 2005

Major Finnish agriculture contract in Zambia

The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs announces a tender for consultancy services for the Programme...

Business November 18, 2005

New tools for monitoring Swedish, Norwegian NGOs

Both NORAD and Sida have recently launched databases on their web sites with information about what NGOs...

Business November 18, 2005

Getting NGOs back on track

Many critical remarks could be written about the Danish government’s arbitrary NGO policy. But this...

Opinion Editorial November 18, 2005

Volcker Commission: Volvo refused to cooperate with investigation

The commission looking into alleged corruption in the Iraq oil-for-food programme charges that Volvo Construction Equipment (CE), a subsidiary of the giant Volvo Group of Sweden, refused to cooperate with investigators. It concludes that the Swedish company “knowingly" paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime in connection with a large contract for vehicles delivery.

Business November 18, 2005

Unusual assignment: how to dismantle an aid agency

In an environment where it is much more common for new institutions to be set up than taken down, the...

Business November 18, 2005

150 firms on Volcker list approved as UN suppliers

Many of the firms listed in the Volcker Report for paying kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime in connection...

Business November 18, 2005

Volvo: ‘Don’t understand criticism’

Klas Magnussen, Head of Information at Volvo CE, comments to Development Today: “We do not understand the criticism. We have tried to answer both in writing and by telephone questions from the [Volcker] commission."

Business November 18, 2005

Nordic Oil-for-food Network

Business November 18, 2005

Finnish police to investigate alleged corruption in Costa Rica

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Helsinki has formally requested the Finnish police to investigate...

Business November 18, 2005

Sida’s learning curve

The evaluation of the Nordic aid-financed Pangani hydropower project in Tanzania, which started generating...

News November 18, 2005

The way forward in the large dams debate

Five years after the World Commission on Dams completed its final report, environmentalists accuse the...

Opinion November 18, 2005