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New Swedish minister calls for three-track aid response to COVID crisis

The Swedish Development Minister Per Olsson Fridh (Green) calls for a holistic response to the COVID19 crisis. “We need to create stronger health systems to manage the pandemic better. The goal must be...

News February 27, 2021

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Three Nordic donors have stopped aid to government in Myanmar, Finland weighs its options

Three Nordics have terminated their development aid to state institutions in Myanmar after the military...

News February 22, 2021

Record replenishment for UN agriculture fund

At a time of economic crisis and strained aid budgets, the International Fund for Agriculture Development...

News February 19, 2021

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

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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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

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

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

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

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...

News December 22, 2020