DT 9 / 2008

Swedish government wants more tenders in aid consultancies

The Swedish Foreign Ministry does not view other state agencies as separate legal entities. That means...

News June 28, 2008

Key UNDP donors discontent with weak human rights focus

Nordic funding of UNDP is on a downward trend due to donors’ shift in priorities and concern about...

News June 28, 2008

Danes double Afganistan aid, step up in Helmand

Denmark has launched an ambitious new strategy for doubling its annual aid to Afghanistan over the coming...

News June 28, 2008

No tender for Tajikistan land project

When should Sida put contracts out for tender and when can they be handed over to a state agency? A Sida-financed...

News June 28, 2008

Richardson opens for humanitarian intervention by force

News June 28, 2008

Competition for state agencies

The Swedish Foreign Ministry has concluded that Sida can continue to engage state agencies for aid projects...

Opinion Editorial June 29, 2008

SN Power exits planned Mozambique hydropower joint venture

The Norwegian aid-financed hydropower investment firm SN Power has given up on a planned joint venture...

Business June 28, 2008

Jacobsen Elektro sceptical about new OECD rules

Business June 29, 2008

Norfund wants Norway to step in to save project

The aid-financed risk capital fund Norfund wants to mobilise a joint Swedish-Norwegian financing package...

Business June 28, 2008

Shift in market positioning among Danish consultancies

Business June 29, 2008

NIRAS breakthrough with Sri Lanka water project

NIRAS has come out ahead on a capacity building consultancy contract in the water sector in Sri Lanka,...

Business June 29, 2008

Eurodad: charter on responsible financing

Eurodad, a network of NGOs from 17 European countries, has lobbied hard for stricter regulations of lending...

Business June 29, 2008

Swedish-Norwegian rural electrification in Mozambique

The Norwegian and Swedish embassies in Maputo will be jointly financing a socio-economic baseline study...

Business June 29, 2008

Coordinator of donor climate projects in Tanzania

In the past year, Danish Energy Management won all three Danida tenders on identification of CDM projects...

Business June 29, 2008

Sweden-Vietnam cultural exchange

Sweden has decided to finance a project called Facilitation of the Swedish-Vietnamese Culture Exchange...

Business June 29, 2008

Evaluation of Norwegian aid for cultural heritage

The Evaluation Department of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) will commission...

Business June 29, 2008

Board of MS votes to join ActionAid

The Board of the the Danish Association for International Cooperation (MS) wants to become part of the...

News June 29, 2008

Norway explores funding models in growing forest aid portfolio

Norway is exploring various funding models for spending the NOK 3 billion a year promised by Prime Minister...

News June 28, 2008

Letter to the Editor: AMC, one of many initiatives

On “Missing the real issue about the pneumo AMC",

Opinion June 29, 2008