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DT 3 / 2014

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Sida aims for SEK 600m guarantee for sugar and ethanol project

Sida has given bridge financing in the form of a SEK 120 million guarantee for the EcoEnergy sugar and ethanol project in Tanzania. If the African Development Bank gives a green light for the main project, Sida is prepared to extend its guarantee to over half a million crowns.

News March 26, 2014

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Row over Ethiopia’s membership in EITI

The Chair of EITI Clare Short defends the board’s approval of Ethiopia as a candidate member. Human rights...

News March 26, 2014

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Neither cheap nor quick, but critical

In an opinion piece in Development Today, Chris Lang of REDD Monitor questions Norway’s Climate and Forest...

Opinion March 26, 2014

Ugandan aid freeze. Devil in the detail

Norway and Denmark were quick to announce they were withholding their aid after the anti-gay bill became...

News March 26, 2014

Oxfam moves into the Nordic market

Oxfam is testing the Nordic region. Danish IBIS is weighing the pros and cons of joining the Oxfam International...

News March 26, 2014

Legality of Bagamoyo environmental license

Environmental concerns raised by Sida in earlier phases of the EcoEnergy project have now been resolved,...

News March 26, 2014

Big business is back

Two recent deals involving private companies and Nordic development financing instiutions mark that big...

Opinion Editorial March 26, 2014

Nordic values in development agenda after 2015

Nordic development ministers want traditional Nordic values such as gender equality, human rights and...

News March 26, 2014

Verdict stands, Scania officials acquitted in Oil for Food trial

 A district court has acquitted two Scania officials for violating UN sanctions in Iraq a decade ago....

Business March 26, 2014

Media support to Pakistan

Denmark plans to support the professionalisation and strengthening of media in Pakistan over a two-year...

Business March 26, 2014

Full Nordic backing for largest wind park in Africa, Lake Turkana in Kenya

The Danish turbine supplier Vestas has secured a huge contract for the Lake Turkana wind park in Kenya....

Business March 26, 2014

Finnish aid to Kenya

Helsinki announces a tender for an evaluation of Finnish aid to Kenya during 2007 to 2013. It will provide...

Business March 26, 2014

Burma activists: land law facilitates land grab

Civil society groups in Myanmar (Burma) fear new government laws will facilitate large scale land grabbing...

News March 26, 2014

Bolivia fund for NGOs

The Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen has allocated DKK 25-30 million over four years for a fund dedicated...

Business March 26, 2014

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