DT 12-13 / 2016

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Using financial muscle to make UN peace missions include women

Swedish State Secretary Annika Söder argues for pushing the women, peace and security agenda in the UN Security Council by withholding funds from peace missions that do not take gender equality seriously.

News November 25, 2016

Millions in aid grants for jobs project fronted by Clinton aide, John Podesta

Norway has since 2009 been the largest donor of the Washington-based JustJobs project, an initiative...

News November 25, 2016

Security specialist takes over at DIIS in Copenhagen

Replacing Nanna Hvidt, Kristian Fischer becomes Director of the Danish Institute for International Studies...

News November 25, 2016

Norway’s Tanzania REDD+ adventure. Another forestry experiment gone awry

Norway’s climate forest engagement in Tanzania, launched in 2008, not only failed to produce models that...

Opinion November 25, 2016

Report: investment landscape turned upside down

Financial reform advocate Sony Kapoor says DFIs like Swedfund and Norfund can be important partners for...

Business November 25, 2016

Top economists warn against ‘outdated’ advice based on trickle-down theory

Former World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu chose Sida as his venue to launch an alternative vision...

News November 25, 2016

Danish Blue parties back new study of three recent wars, amid controversy

An inquiry into Denmark’s military engagement in the wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, commissioned...

News November 25, 2016

OECD: Uneven funding for aid evaluation

An OECD survey shows vast discrepencies in donor spending on aid evaluation systems as a proportion of...

News November 25, 2016

Declining use of state agencies by Sida

Aid funds transferred to Swedish authorities and universities have decreased in recent years as Sweden...

News November 25, 2016

Ground-breaking investment in Africa

Red tape and risk aversion are causing Western banks to pull out of African banking at a time when there...

Opinion Editorial November 25, 2016

A one-billion dollar bank deal in Sub-Saharan Africa

At a time when Western banks are exiting Sub-Saharan Africa, the new Norwegian-Dutch banking group Arise...

Business November 25, 2016

Aid to Swedish state agencies under scrutiny

The Swedish Auditor General is conducting a study of Swedish aid channelled through Swedish state agencies....

Business November 25, 2016

Support for Finnish evaluations

The evaluation unit at the Finnish Foreign Ministry is looking for assistance to carry out evaluations...

Business November 25, 2016

Visits electricity project in Dar

During a recent visit to Dar es Salaam, Foreign Trade and Development Minister Kai Mykkänen attended...

Business November 25, 2016

Swedish agency monitors Green Resources plantation in Uganda pending 2018 carbon pay-out

A year after the Swedish Energy Agency froze its SEK 35 million climate deal with Green Resources, the...

Business November 25, 2016

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