DT 19 / 2008

MSF considers returning to Afghanistan

The medical humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is evaluating the possibility of returning...

News December 11, 2008

‘Amusing’. PricewaterhouseCoopers calls for exit from tax havens

The Norwegian branch of the international auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has recommended that the...

News December 11, 2008

Fogh Rasmussen champions policy drive for Africa

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s Africa Commission rejects the common wisdom about aid...

News December 11, 2008

ICRC: NGO actors share blame for ‘blurring of lines’

A high-level ICRC official says the military is often blamed for encroaching on humanitarian space. But humanitarian actors must bear some of the responsibility for the “blurring of lines" when they become part of a political agenda, he says.

News December 11, 2008

Norway may have over-reported aid by NOK 1 billion

News December 05, 2008

Norway in Africa

An updated version of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry’s Platform for a Hollistic Africa Policy has been...

News December 11, 2008

Helsinki Process comes to a close

At year’s end the Helsinki Process, launched in 2002 by the governments of Finland and Tanzania, comes...

News December 11, 2008

Borgstam new Ambassador to DRC

Johan Borgstam, a policy advisor to Sweden’s Development Minister Gunilla Carlsson, has been appointed...

News December 11, 2008

Arbitrary move by World Bank

The World Bank’s unprecedented withdrawal from the Bugoye hydro project in Uganda raises serious questions...

Opinion Editorial December 11, 2008

Aid-funded studies lead to Danish carbon credit purchase

Danish aid has resulted in the purchase by Denmark of CDM quotas from a palm oil project equivalent to...

Business December 11, 2008

WB officials visit Oslo to make peace with Norwegian firms

In an unusual move, the World Bank rushed to Oslo last month to ensure Norwegian energy companies that...

Business December 11, 2008

Bujagali: damning criticsm of World Bank’s cost estimates

An independent commission provides harsh criticism of the economic analysis underlying the controversial...

Business December 11, 2008

SEK 500 million for electrification in Tanzania

Business December 11, 2008

Up to NOK 175m in NGO forest climate funding

The Norwegian government calls for applications for projects from civil society organisations working...

Business December 11, 2008

US gov watchdog points to weaknesses in CDM

A new study carried out by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) raises doubts about the CDM mechanism where rich countries invest in “green" projects in the developing world as a way of reaching their own emission reduction targets.

Business December 11, 2008

Out of Nicaragua. Sweden plans exit strategy

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) office at the Swedish Embassy in Managua...

Business December 11, 2008

Contract for design of green One UN building in Hanoi

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) seeks an interior designer for the “Green One UN House in Vietnam that also supports the UN’s ambitious reform programme to achieve a One UN. The interior design of the new building should project a “modern, professional and welcoming image...

Business December 11, 2008

Evaluation of Sida Amhara rural development project

The Sida-financed Amhara Rural Development Programme has been running for more than a decade, and is...

Business December 11, 2008

Three Nordics top donor ranking

The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark top the annual Commitment to Development Index. The scores...

News December 11, 2008