DT 14-15 / 2007

Swedish Auditor General hints at massive Sida NGO fraud

An investigation by the Swedish National Audit Office of aid channelled through NGOs finds irregularities...

News October 11, 2007

Finnish development policy takes shape

A draft White Paper on development policy is being circulated and will be presented to Parliament shortly....

News October 12, 2007

Norway cuts NOK 25m in Ethiopia aid

News October 11, 2007

Foreign Ministry strips Sida of authority

The Swedish government has started a process of downsizing the aid agency Sida and taking control of...

News October 11, 2007

Exit option. Hard line approach on human rights

The government seeks to strengthen three areas in Swedish aid: democracy and human rights, gender equality...

News October 11, 2007

6000 projects. How representative is the sample?

asked the Project Leader at the Swedish National Audit Office Staffan Ivarsson what conclusions can be...

News October 11, 2007

Nordic Darfur force

The UN and the African Union have accepted an offer from Norway and Sweden to provide an engineer unit...

News October 12, 2007

PM Reinfeldt establishes climate commission

At the UN Summit in New York, Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt announces the establishment...

News October 12, 2007

NGO fraud

Sida has been shaken by the conclusions of the Auditor General on the shocking extent of “irregularities" in NGO aid.

Opinion Editorial October 11, 2007

Norway focuses on CDM, gives Norfund top marks

The Norwegian government continues to pour money into the risk capital fund Norfund, in spite of heavy...

Business October 11, 2007

More budget support to Zambia

Sida has signed a one-year agreement for budget support to Zambia worth SEK 12 million, an amount that...

News October 12, 2007

Swedfund in focus

In Sweden, the aid-financed risk capital fund Swedfund also continues to be in the good books.

Business October 11, 2007

Organic farming in Uganda. What now?

Sida has been providing support for organic agriculture in Uganda since 2002 via a programme called EPOPA,...

Business October 11, 2007

Appraisal of rural water supply in Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of Finland’s eigh priority recipient countries where Finland has been support the water...

Business October 11, 2007

Draft energy policy in Zanzibar, Tanzania

The Ministry of Water, Construction, Energy and Lands has made a request to the Swedish Embassy in Dar...

Business October 11, 2007

Angola corruption. Sida freezes SEK 40m

As a result of suspected corruption at the Angola office of the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa...

News October 11, 2007

EDM procurement system

The Mozambican government invites expressions of interest from consultancy firms for the restructuring...

Business October 11, 2007

Swedish Conservatives aim for bigger programmes, fewer countries

Fewer recipient countries, fewer sectors and bigger programs, is the Swedish governments’ medicine for making aid more efficient. “We need to create a strong result-oriented culture," it states in the budget proposition for next year.

News October 11, 2007

ActionAid aims for a piece of Nordic NGO market

News October 11, 2007