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Nordic NGO financing

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Interview

Sida chair’s blunt message to Swedish NGOs: compete for funds abroad

As Chair of Sida’s Board, Gunilla Carlsson has overseen the tumultuous transformation of Sida’s civil society funding, one of the “highest priorities” in the Swedish government’s on-going reform of aid policy. In an in-depth interview with Development Today, she says Swedish organisations are small in a global context because they have been too fixated on Sida money, and she calls for more international competition among CSOs.

News February 03, 2025

Sweden’s civil society shake-up: triples recipients, puts cap on funding, opens window for Global South

The aid agency Sida has announced its final selection of civil society organisations that are invited...

News November 08, 2024

Civil society strategy outlines Sida’s new funding system, earmarks direct grants to Global South

The new Swedish civil society strategy calls for more transparency and diversity in Sida’s support to...

News September 25, 2024

Sida delays NGO funding decision as it awaits new civil society strategy

Three hundred non-governmental organisations – including 250 from the Global South – are holding their...

News September 18, 2024

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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,...

News July 03, 2024

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More than 1,000 organisations make first cut in Sida civil society funding call

The Swedish aid agency Sida was inundated with more than 2,700 expressions of interest for its new civil...

News June 04, 2024

Sida is flooded with applications for civil society funding

In its first-ever open global call for proposals for civil society funding, Sida has received 2,728 expressions...

News May 28, 2024

Sweden’s dramatic changes in civil society funding to be discussed at OECD in Paris

Responding to criticisms by civil society organisations that the changes in Sweden’s civil society funding...

News May 16, 2024

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Civil society funds ‘ringfenced’ for Norwegian and Swedish organisations are ‘not tied aid’

A recent report finds that donors “ringfence” 90 per cent of their civil society funding for organisations...

News May 16, 2024

Sida launches first-ever open global tender for civil society funding

Four days behind its tight schedule, Sida has announced a call for civil society organisations (CSOs)...

News May 07, 2024

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