DT 4-5 / 2014

Sweden cuts Red Cross funding. Geneva fears others donors will run

Sweden has lost patience with the Red Cross federation, cutting its funding for 2014 in half due to concerns about financial mismanagement. The Geneva-based organisation worries that other donors could follow suit.

News May 19, 2014

Finnish focus on fragile states

Pekka Haavisto explains Finland’s growing engagement in countries that have experienced many years of...

News May 19, 2014

Dalai Lama and realpolitik in Oslo

The three-day visitof the Dalai Lama to Oslo was a stark reminder of the real place of Norwegian human...

News May 19, 2014

Massive illict flows from Africa. Still not a donor priority

Every year, nearly a trillion dollars leaves developing countries in illicit financial outflows--the...

Opinion May 19, 2014

Blunt about efforts to save the rainforest

Norway’s efforts to preserve the rainforests can make a difference by giving advocates of forest protection...

Opinion May 19, 2014

Tug-of-war over UNDP’s future in Oslo

The UNDP threatened to close down its governance centre in Oslo last fall when Norway, the agency’s largest...

News May 19, 2014

Sweden climbs to sixth largest OECD donor

All Nordic donors increased their aid last year; total Nordic aid now amounts to almost USD 16 billion....

News May 19, 2014

Oslo defends rainforest billions

Per Fredrik Pharo, Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative, responds to Chris...

News May 19, 2014

Sida drops two more NGOs

After more than 30 years, the Swedish aid agency Sida is dropping the Pentecostal organisation PMU Interlife...

News May 19, 2014

Nordics score highest in freedom of press index

The US-based Freedom House places all five Nordic countries, along with the Netherlands and Luxembourg,...

News May 19, 2014

Norway’s race for new private sector tools

In Oslo, the government aims to establish a new tool box for private sector development, a move that...

Opinion Editorial May 19, 2014

Energy companies reach deep into aid pie

Norway’s renewable energy utilities are lobbying hard for more aid-subsidised loans and guarantees to...

Business May 19, 2014

Norfund aims to be 1% of the Oil Fund

The aid-funded risk capital provider Norfund has in a letter to the Foreign Ministry asked for its annual...

Business May 19, 2014

NDF cross-debars SWECO, follows World Bank decision

The Nordic Development Fund has followed the World Bank’s lead, debarring SWECO Environment due to misconduct...

Business May 19, 2014

Andean energy and environment

The Finnish Foreign Ministry invites tenders for a consultancy contract for continued implementation...

Business May 19, 2014

Conditional AfDB approval for Ecoenergy

The Swedish firm in Tanzania Econergy has moved one step closer to its goal of a USD 300 million loan...

Business May 19, 2014

Review of private forestry scheme

The private forestry programme currently being supported by Finland in Tanzania is to be monitored and...

Business May 19, 2014

Nutrition support in Mozambique

DANIDA is providing support to health, nutrition, hiv/aids and civil society as part of its fifth five-year...

Business May 19, 2014

Faremo takes over UNOPS, Mattson retires

One of Norway’s most experienced politicians Grete Faremo takes the helm of the Copenhagen-based UNOPS...

News May 19, 2014

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