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DT 10 / 2018

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Back to Bujagali. Stepping stone for SN Power to expand in Africa

The partly aid-financed Norwegian hydropower investor SN Power bought a major stake in Uganda’s Bujagali hydropower project in July. Fifteen years ago, SN Power turned down a World Bank offer to become an owner in the project, but now the company sees its newest acquisition as a stepping stone for expansion in the African market, CEO Torger Lien tells Development Today.

Business November 14, 2018

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Grim assessment: 10 years of REDD+ has not slowed deforestation

The REDD+ concept, which was based on the deceptively simple idea that giving cash to forest-rich countries...

News December 06, 2018

Billion-dollar vaccine subsidy. Donors reject proposed changes aimed at pushing down price

Donors refuse to ring-fence the remaining money in a billion-dollar pneumonia vaccine fund and give it...

News December 16, 2018

Save the Children calls for halt in Gavi vaccine subsidies to two pharma giants

The donor-funded vaccine alliance Gavi has over the last decade spent more than USD 1.2 billion out of...

News November 16, 2018

Sida to decide on major aid package in wake of Solheim’s departure from UNEP

Just days after the embattled UNEP chief Erik Solheim announced his resignation, the Swedish agency Sida...

News November 22, 2018

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GFF health initiative fails to reach USD 2 billion replenishment target

The Global Financing Facility (GFF), a World Bank-managed trust fund for health and nutrition, raised...

News November 09, 2018

Danish financing window links businesses with non-commercial actors to promote SDGs

Ecological coffee, recycling of plastic from used fishing equipment and digital solutions for enhancing...

Business November 23, 2018

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Doubts cast about GFF’s projection of 35 million lives to be saved

Global health experts question the accuracy of the Global Financing Facility’s claim that it can save...

News November 05, 2018

Nordic donors divided over best response to homophobic crackdown in Tanzania

While Denmark has frozen DKK 65 million in aid in response to the anti-gay crackdown in Dar es Salaam,...

News November 28, 2018

Swedish caretaker government: aid at 1% of GNI in 2019, few clues about priorities

The current Swedish administration, which is acting as a caretaker government, proposes that aid remains...

News November 16, 2018

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