DT 7 / 2005

A Turkish UNDP chief. Kofi Annan breaks donor monopoly

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s appointment of the Turkish MP Kemal Dervis to the position of Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has cracked the donors’ monopoly over this key UN aid post.

News May 11, 2005

Sida fears Swedish state agencies may be knocked out of aid market

Swedish state agencies, which have for years carried out Sida-financed bilateral aid programmes, may...

News May 11, 2005

Malloch Brown: ‘an open fair process’

Critical reports in the Norwegian press have questioned the transparency of the selection process. Dagbladet...

News May 11, 2005

Danes put new emphasis on aiding private sector

Denmark’s aid to the business sector has taken a full 180-degree turn - from focusing on how to involve...

News May 11, 2005

Serious questions raised about Norway’s approach to land commission

Scepticism is brewing about the Norwegian fast-track initiative to establish a high-level Commission...

News May 11, 2005

AfDB brushes aside criticism from MOPAN

The African Development Bank brushes aside the negative conclusions of the so-called MOPAN report, which...

News May 11, 2005

As Denmark sharpens the axe, NDF’s future on the line

Discussions of far-reaching changes in the Nordic Development Fund have been put on hold while Denmark...

News May 11, 2005

Danish investment funds survive capital withdrawal in fine shape

The two Danish investment funds - for developing countries and for Central and Eastern Europe - had good...

News May 11, 2005

A Swedish NOREPS

Jan Egeland, currently head of OCHA, was instrumental in establishing Norway’s NOREPS system for rapid...

Opinion Editorial May 11, 2005

In Brief

NORWAY-VIETNAM DEBT SWAP: The Norwegian government has cancelled all of Vietnam’s NOK 35 million debt...

News May 11, 2005

Sweden considers creating its own NOREPS systems

Sweden is considering copying the Norwegian NOREPS system. The Swedish Trade Council is looking into...

Business May 11, 2005

Danish advisor for Iraq: looking for a ‘new man in Basra’

Danish agricultural consultant Ole Stockholm Jepsen of NIRAS (Scanagri), who has been based in Southern...

Business May 11, 2005

Evaluation of Finnish environmental aid

The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ Evaluation and Internal Auditing Unit invites consulting companies and institutions to submit expressions of interest for an Evaluation of Environmental Management in Finland's Development Cooperation.

Business May 11, 2005

Ghana. Post-HIPC status opens aid and trade possibilities

Several potential Swedish aid-financed infrastructure projects in Ghana were on the agenda during the...

Business May 11, 2005

Uniteam wins USD 3.8 million Darfur contract

The Oslo-based container supplier UniTeam has been awarded a USD 3.8 million contract from the Norwegian...

Business May 11, 2005

Swedish telecom consultancy in Angola

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) announces a major “KTS" tender for institutional support to the telecommunications sector in Angola. The maximum contract value is set at SEK 10 million. Sida will finance consultancy services for 45 person-months over a period of three years. As this is a contract-financed technical assignment (KTS), only Swedish institutions and Swedish firms are eligible to submit bids for this tender.

Business May 11, 2005

A Swedish watchdog for the UN

The former Swedish Auditor General Inga-Britt Ahlenius (66) has been appointed Under Secretary General responsible for the internal UN audit office in New York. She was proposed for the job by the United States and nominated by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. “It is an honour and a challenge," she says to DT.

News May 11, 2005

Lessons for corruption-free development

Transparency International-USA’s Nancy Boswell welcomes the publication of the World Bank’s first...

Business May 11, 2005

DT 7 / 2005

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