Lion’s share of Sida’s ‘green billion’ given away without tendering

Business October 25, 2006

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) comes out on top in Sida’s allocation of its share of the former government’s “green billion” - SEK 1 billion in environmental aid during 2006-8. But Sida has so far not found a way to include the private sector in an initiative whose main purpose was to profile Swedish environ-mental expertise internationally. Only a fraction of the money handled by Sida is for projects that will be put out for tender.

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