DT 3 / 2023

IFU expands investment despite heavy losses in Ukraine

The Danish aid-financed investor IFU is exploring new projects in Ukraine, despite taking heavy losses on its portfolio in the war-torn country last year, according to the IFU annual report for 2022. (Updated)

Business May 11, 2023

No Swedish earmarking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine

Dedicated funding for Sida made Ukraine the number one recipient of Swedish humanitarian aid in 2022....

News May 09, 2023

Calls on donor group, led by Japan and Switzerland, to break deadlock in support for Afghan refugees

Afghanistan is burdened by multiple crises, and there is an urgent need for innovative collective global...

Opinion May 10, 2023

Three Nordic DFIs provide risk capital for Ukrainian tech industry, Norway drags its feet

During a ceremony at the presidential palace in Kyiv last week, three Nordic DFIs - Swedfund, the Danish...

Business May 05, 2023

Norwegian-supported actors spar over historic forest carbon credit deal in Guyana

The lucrative sale of 33 million tonnes worth of carbon credits by Guyana last December, heralded as...

News May 04, 2023

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The minister who put peasants at the centre of Norwegian aid

Against all odds, small-scale farming in Africa has become a key priority of Norwegian aid, and Development...

News April 27, 2023

How Norway will spend NOK 4 billion on food security

The Norwegian food security strategy, which promotes food self-sufficiency with a focus on Africa, has...

News April 28, 2023

Aid billions lost: Swedish NGOs fear unused aid earmarked for refugees will end up in state coffers, like last year

Last year, unused aid funds earmarked for refugees arriving in Sweden remained in the state coffers rather...

News April 21, 2023

Growing criticism of multi-billion crown hole in Danish aid funding

The Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen is so far silent about a massive and growing funding gap in Danish...

News April 18, 2023

Nordic share of aid shrinks as Ukraine war reshapes donor landscape

While global aid expanded last year, Sweden, Norway and Denmark recorded their lowest aid levels in many...

News April 14, 2023

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