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DT 4-5 / 2013

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Foreign NGOs take growing share of Swedish humanitarian funding

MSF Sweden remains Sida’s main NGO channel for humanitarian funding. Over the past eight years, however, Sida support for non-Swedish actors like Oxfam has skyrocketed, while funding for Swedish, mainly faith-based organisations has fallen off.

News April 30, 2013

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Full speed ahead for Tanzania’s fossil fuel development. Renewables on back burner

Coal and gas are fuelling Tanzania’s growing economy. Donors are looking for strategic interventions,...

Business April 30, 2013

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Burma peace envoy. ‘Not buying support for ceasefires’

In the fall of 2007, the streets of Burma’s cities filled with Buddhist monks and ordinary people demanding...

News April 30, 2013

Tanzania. Slow UN reform at headquarters hampers progress on the ground

Six years after launching UN reform efforts in Tanzania, the world organisation still lacks a UN House...

News April 30, 2013

New rules for humanitarian funding

Sida is re-organising the way it disburses humanitarian funds to civil society organisations as part...

News April 30, 2013

Satu Santala appointed World Bank Nordic director

Deputy Director General for Development Policy at the Finnish Foreign Ministry Satu Santala will replace...

News April 30, 2013

Opens humanitarian aid to foreign NGOs

One might expect a Swedish non-Socialist government to give priority to relief organisations that have...

Opinion Editorial April 30, 2013

Nordics contribute more to OECD aid pie

Nordic countries’ share of aid has expanded as the euro crisis has led to drastic cuts in the aid budgets...

News April 30, 2013

Guyana aims to spend NOK 500m in climate aid on a dam in the Amazon rainforest

Guyana has doubled the amount of Norwegian climate aid it aims to spend on the controversial Amaila Falls...

Business April 30, 2013

NIRAS wins humanitarian roster contract

Once again, the Danish firm NIRAS has been awarded a contract for the management of the the Danish Inter-national...

Business April 30, 2013

No immediate plans to resume Uganda aid

Six months have passed since revelations of extensive aid fraud in Uganda. No Nordic donor is close to...

Business April 30, 2013

Innovative energy contest in Latin America

Sponsored by GDF Suez the Nordic Development Fund, South Korea and the Inter-American Development Bank...

Business April 30, 2013

Global Fund seeks 44% boost in funding

The Global Fund has announced a fund-raising target of USD 15 billion for 2014-16, a substantial increase...

News April 30, 2013

Evaluation of law project in Laos

Finland and the EU have been financing the International Law Project (ILP) since 2001. It is expected...

Business April 30, 2013

Reviving support for Blue Nile mega-dams

They were to be the biggest dams in Africa. But Ethiopian ambitions put a sudden end to the support....

Business April 30, 2013

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