DT 17 / 2007

Asian NGOs urge donors to act. Dams on Mekong being planned

NGOs in Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China have raised alarm about renewed plans to build...

News November 16, 2007

Conflict over fraud in NGO aid obscures weaknesses in Sida

News November 16, 2007

Sida searches for auditor to investigate NGO aid

Following the controversial report by the Swedish Auditor General of NGO aid, the Swedish International...

News November 16, 2007

Modern Finnish aid policy, others will follow

Finland now has an aid policy that focuses heavily on ecological sustainability. Paavo Väyrynen, Finnish...

News November 16, 2007

Norway likely to fund NOK 500 million World Bank programme

Norway is likely to fund a NOK 500 million World Bank programme that will explore innovative results-based...

News November 16, 2007

World Bank courts donors in Norway, UK

The World Bank has sent a team to Oslo and London in advance of the crucial IDA 15 replenishment negotiations...

News November 16, 2007

More Finnish state agencies, universities in aid

The Finnish Foreign Ministry will evaluate its efforts in capacity building to assess the effectiveness...

News November 16, 2007

Three more NGO hopefuls

has reported that 18 Swedish NGOs have applied to become

News November 16, 2007

More Swedes want to help, but more pessimism

One noteworthy result of the SIFO survey of Swedish public opinion on aid for 2007 was a marked increase...

News November 16, 2007

Sacrificed the limelight

In August PM Jens Stoltenberg dropped his “Global Business Plan" for health aid because there were simply too many competing plans. Instead, the PM’s proposal was integrated into a new move to improve coordination in global health aid, the so-called Campaign for the Health MDGs.

Opinion Editorial November 16, 2007

SN Power's aggressive takeover strategy funded by aid

The Norwegian government has so far this year spent almost NOK 1 billion from the aid budget on acquisitions...

Business November 16, 2007

Danish Pihl & Søn wins long-awaited Swedish mixed credit

Business November 16, 2007

Finnish Lao forestry aid to continue, and more to come

As a direct result of the new Finnish aid policy, Finland’s forestry aid programme in Laos, whose extension...

Business November 16, 2007

EOI for Marrup-Ruaca road in Mozambique

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) invites interested parties to express...

Business November 16, 2007

Finland to evaluate impact of training programmes

The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs announces a tender for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness and...

Business November 16, 2007

Sida tender for wind power course. Aims to build up relations with Swedish actor

The Sida International Training Programme plans to offer a three-year training course in wind power development...

Business November 16, 2007

New Norwegian tools for tackling corruption

At the international level, Norway is pushing for cross-debarment from multilateral aid tendering of...

News November 16, 2007