DT 3 / 2005

Dahlgren aims for UNHCR, Frafjord Johnson eyes UNDP

Sweden and Norway have both launched candidates for the two top positions currently vacant in the UN.

News March 20, 2007

Malloch Brown on his successor

The UN Secretary General’s Chief of Staff Mark Malloch Brown, who is vacating the top position in UNDP,...

News March 02, 2005

US cuts funding by SDR 400m, loses dominant role in IDA

The Bush administration has made dramatic cuts in its funding of the World Bank’s International Development...

News March 02, 2005

Nordics lukewarm on UK proposal for billion-dollar OCHA fund

The British Development Minister Hilary Benn has received enthusiastic backing from UN Secretary General...

News March 02, 2005

From Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz

US Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz has emerged as a leading candidate to replace James Wolfensohn...

News March 02, 2005

NORAD makes ‘decent offer’ of NOK 83m

NORAD has indicated support worth NOK 83 million over three years to the Norwegian branch of Plan International....

News March 02, 2005

Danish development ministers don’t last

The firebrand Bertel Haarder served as Danish Development Minister for just six months. After the Danish...

News March 02, 2005

Finnish NGOs resist Ministry pressure to reduce country presence

Finland’s Minister for Development and Trade Paula Lehtomäki has created apprehension in the Finnish...

News March 02, 2005

Sweden, Norway agree on joint aid in Mali

Sweden will enter into an agreement with Norway on development cooperation in Mali. Under the agreement...

News March 02, 2005

Denmark puts aid to Nepal on hold, plans to channel funds to NGOs

Like other like-minded donors, Denmark has reacted to the coup in Nepal by putting new aid activities...

News March 02, 2005

Shrinking US muscle in WB

The most dramatic outcome of the IDA 14 negotiations is that the United States is no longer the dominant...

Opinion Editorial March 02, 2005

EU opposes US anti-abortion move

Reuters reports that British and French officials strongly oppose efforts by the Bush administration...

News March 02, 2005

Schori to Ivory Coast

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has announced the appointment of Sweden’s Pierre Schori as his Special...

News March 02, 2005

Learning from the past: Sida’s Pangani evaluation

Sida has commissioned an “ex post evaluation" of the Pangani Falls Redevelopment Project in Tanzania. This marks the agency’s willingness to learn from past mistakes, writes Claude Mung’ong’o of the Institute of Resource Assessment in Dar es Salaam.

Opinion March 02, 2005

Innovation Norway turns back on aid consultants

Innovation Norway has closed down its Manila office without any consultation even though a group of firms...

Business March 02, 2005

Danish Ministry aims for more open Nordic market

A Nordic seminar hosted last week in Copenhagen by the Danish Foreign Ministry (Danida and the Danish...

Business March 02, 2005

Sweden to finance Kenyan roads project

The Kenyan government plans to implement a road improvement and maintenance programme in a joint financing...

Business March 02, 2005

Sweden, Norway and Finland rush to catch up with the Danes

In just one year, Denmark has gone from being one of the EU’s staunchest supporters of tied aid to...

Business March 02, 2005

NCG gives good marks to Danida’s business programmes

The Nordic Consulting Group and the Danish Institute for International Studies have done a review of...

Business March 02, 2005

‘Minister of Chickens’

DT readers will recall the bout of Malawian chicken fever that attacked the Danish media last year and...

News March 02, 2005

Sweden, AsDB launch AIDS trust fund

Sweden and the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) have signed an agreement to set up a multi-donor trust fund...

News March 02, 2005

Roads for tourists in Zambia. Improving access to Kafue

Zambia’s government declares that it is putting emphasis on the rehabilitation of its road infrastructure...

Business March 02, 2005

DT 3 / 2005

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