Nordic NGO financing

Changes in USAID anti-terror clause can open for renewed cooperation with Norwegian People’s Aid

USAID has revised the anti-terror clause in its certification process for NGOs receiving funding from the agency. NGO leaders say the new rules reduce the risk of organisations coming under investigation...

News May 22, 2020

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Sweden compares UN agencies and NGOs on equal terms in scrutiny of humanitarian partners

Sida is reviewing its humanitarian portfolio as part of a process of selecting organisations through...

News March 20, 2020

Danish NGO IBIS confronts ‘built-in weaknesses’ in Oxfam’s global system

Three years after merging with Oxfam, the leadership of Oxfam IBIS in Copenhagen is grappling with “...

News January 24, 2020

Intense competition among Swedish NGOs for Sida multi-year funding

Responding to a call for proposals from Sida, no fewer than 20 Swedish non-governmental organisations,...

News December 13, 2019

Advocacy and fundraising: Oxfam Sweden finds its niche

The Swedish branch of Oxfam has managed in just five years to carve out an identity in the competitive...

News November 26, 2019

Sida opens SEK 1.9b NGO pie for competition

Sida is opening a funding pot worth SEK 1.9 billion to new Swedish NGOs. For almost a decade 15 organisations...

News May 24, 2019

Danish financing window links businesses with non-commercial actors to promote SDGs

Ecological coffee, recycling of plastic from used fishing equipment and digital solutions for enhancing...

Business November 23, 2018

Sida should initiate independent review of its failure to warn Oxfam

A decade ago an official at Sida warned about a sexual abuser working in a key position at Oxfam, but...

Opinion Editorial March 23, 2018

No paper trail, no report. Sida blames ex-staff for not warning Oxfam about sexual abuser

The Swedish aid agency Sida points to the former head of its Humanitarian Department as being responsible...

News March 16, 2018

Sida satisfied with Oxfam’s safeguard systems, releases SEK 104m

A three-year humanitarian aid grant to Oxfam, frozen by Sida last month in response to allegations of...

News March 13, 2018

Nordic NGO financing

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