When the former government instructed Sida to spend SEK 105 million during 2006-8 - SEK 35m per year - in cooperation with the newly-formed network of environmental technology firms Swentec, it presented Sida with an impossible dilemma.

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Lion’s share of Sida’s ‘green billion’ given away without tendering

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) comes out on top in Sida’s allocation of its share of the former government’s “green billion” - SEK 1 billion in environmental aid during 2006-8. But Sida has so far not found a way to include the private sector in an initiative whose main purpose was to profile Swedish environ-mental expertise internationally. Only a fraction of the money handled by Sida is for projects that will be put out for tender.