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DT 1 / 2021

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Record replenishment for UN agriculture fund

At a time of economic crisis and strained aid budgets, the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), which provides support to smallholder farmers, recorded its highest-ever replenishment this week. Many Western donors announced increases, and low-income countries almost doubled their support.

News February 19, 2021

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Massive criticism of Danish aid-funded plan to send asylum seekers to an African country

Denmark’s Social Democrat government proposes changes in the immigration law to allow thousands of asylum...

News February 15, 2021

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Charities warn of growing medical oxygen emergency while donors ‘sit on their hands’

Prior to the pandemic, medical oxygen was a scarce and expensive commodity in low-income countries where...

February 10, 2021

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Nordic Alliance for Tax Justice: Nordic countries break tax promises to world’s poorest, but are given a second chance

Developing countries are facing an unprecedented economic crisis and Covid-19 is only making things worse....

Opinion February 10, 2021

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Multi-party call to make biodiversity a cross-cutting priority in Finnish aid

The Finnish Development Policy Committee, which has members from all political parties, is calling for...

News January 29, 2021

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Norway and UK block consensus in OECD on reporting COVID19 vaccine research grants as aid

As vaccine inequality grows, donors continue to argue over how much of their funding for COVID19 vaccine...

News January 26, 2021

Norwegian Foreign Ministry disagrees with DT’s reporting on CEPI discussions in OECD

An article in Development Today on 26 January, stating that Norway and the United Kingdom are blocking...

Opinion January 29, 2021

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Domestic threats to the golden standard in global aid

For more than a decade, Sweden and Norway have set the global bar in aid by dedicating 1 per cent of...

News January 25, 2021

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Norway and South Africa call on OECD finance ministers to go beyond aid to fund global COVID19 gap

The finance ministers of Norway and South Africa have invited colleagues from OECD countries to a meeting...

News January 21, 2021

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