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Nordic-led effort to increase support for UN agriculture fund

Ahead of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s 12th replenishment, which has been postponed until early next year due to the pandemic, Sweden, Finland and Norway have announced that they aim to increase their contributions by at least 40 per cent. They are calling on other countries to follow suit.

News December 22, 2020

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Charlotte Slente: Afghanistan. The road to change and lasting solutions

Donors committed at least USD 3.3 billion for next year at the Afghanistan Conference in November. Now...

Opinion December 21, 2020

NDF reaches out to Nordic climate actors

The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) has received a new mandate from its owners to advance Nordic leadership...

Business December 17, 2020

Legal experts question ‘wall of secrecy’ around CEPI grants to vaccine developers

Only one of the ten developers of COVID19 vaccines that have received funding from the epidemic response...

News December 14, 2020

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Dispute in OECD over coronavirus vaccine grants: how much can be reported as aid?

A conflict is brewing at the OECD over how much of donors’ support to the Oslo-based organisation CEPI...

News December 07, 2020

Nordic DFIs step up investments as pandemic takes its toll

Four Nordic development finance institutions (DFIs) have committed almost a quarter billion euros in...

Business December 01, 2020

Robert Wihtol: Private sector holds the key to recovery

The Covid-19 crisis has hit emerging economies hard. Many companies have taken a beating. But a strong...

Opinion November 26, 2020

On the origins of the COVID19 global response and what needs to be done now

The global pandemic response mechanism, ACT-A, now led by the World Health Organisation, started out...

News November 20, 2020

Low-income countries are losing the race for coronavirus vaccine

While rich countries have reserved 6 billion doses of COVID 19 vaccine for themselves, low-income countries...

News November 13, 2020

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