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Only Norwegian actors selected by Norad to be ‘strategic partners’
While Sida is upending its decades-old system of strategic partnerships with Swedish civil society organisations, opening it for global competition, Norad appears to be moving in the opposite direction, strengthening ties with a select group of strategic actors with a turnover of more than NOK 100 million. In the first round, only Norwegian organisations have made it through the eye of the needle.