DT 1 / 2016

Crowded pack of contenders, no easy ride to UNEP’s helm for Nordic candidates

Finland’s Sirpa Pietikäinen and Norway’s Erik Solheim, both former environment ministers, face tough competition in a hot race to become chief of the Nairobi-based UN environment agency, UNEP.

News February 01, 2016

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First riparian takes helm of cash-strapped Mekong river agency

After decades under Western leadership, the Mekong River Commission is being headed by a Vietnamese national....

News February 01, 2016

UNFPA closes 80 health centres in Afghanistan due to funding cuts

Donor contributions to the UN’s population fund UNFPA have been reduced dramatically this year. Head...

Opinion February 01, 2016

Hard-won battle in Paris over which military costs can be counted as aid

A ministerial OECD meeting has allowed for some anti-terror efforts to be counted as official development...

News February 01, 2016

Finnish candidate for UN legal commission, ILC

The Nordics are proposing the Finnish Ambassador Marja Lehto to be one of eight Western European members...

News February 01, 2016

Swedish diplomacy in the DAC

At the last two dac negotiations where revision of the definition of Official Development Assistance...

Opinion Editorial February 01, 2016

UN pushes for expansion of DAC peer reviews to include human rights

As the scale of humanitarian crises increases, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...

News February 01, 2016

Brende aims for fewer aid agreements

Foreign Minister Børge Brende pledged half a billion crowns for a new technical education program at...

News February 01, 2016

Sida: no promises for Bagamoyo sugar project

The Bagamoyo saga drags on. The Swedish-owned firm BEE has an investor and the African Development Bank...

Business February 01, 2016

New instrument to replace Finnish concessional credits

In 2012, then minister for Development Cooperation Heidi Hautala terminated the Finnish concessional...

Business February 01, 2016

Evaluation of Nepal aid 2001-2014

Business February 01, 2016

Report: Sida’s private sector aid portfolio grows to SEK 6.5 billion

Swedish business-related aid, including guarantees, has grown substantially in recent years and now amounts...

Business February 01, 2016

Finnish mid-term review in Vietnam

The Finnish Foreign Ministry will finance a mid-term review of the second phase of its Innovation Partnership...

Business February 01, 2016

Sida-USAID guarantee in Zimbabwe

A partnership agreement between Sida and USAID on provision of risk-sharing loan guarantees to financial...

Business February 01, 2016

Guyana forest deal running on overtime

The USD 250 million Norway-Guyana forest deal, signed in 2009, was meant to end in 2015. Only a fraction...

News February 01, 2016

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