Based on signals from the new Swedish government about a freeze in the budget level for framework NGOs, Sida has issued a warning to some organisations that the expected increases in funding next year will not be possible.

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Plan Sweden signs SEK 20m deal with Sida

Ending a years-long process of consideration, Sida has recently signed a framework agreement with Plan Sweden, making the NGO the 14th Swedish development organisation to ...

The Red/Green government in Norway inherited from the previous administration a close relationship with the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and his Institute for Liberty and Democracy.

Responding to questions raised in Development Today about the dual role played by a Danida officer in connection with a review of the Mekong River Commission, the Danish Foreign Ministry defends the arrangement and denies there is a conflict of interest. Others in the Nordic evaluation community comment that the set-up can be problematic.

The new Swedish government will use a different means of accounting debt relief in the aid budget for 2007, releasing some SEK 1.35 billion that can be used for other non-aid purposes.

Nordic Plus puts focus on Bretton Woods

When the Norwegian government hosted a conference on the Bretton Woods institutions’ conditionality, the World Bank Chief Paul Wolfowitz sent one of his top officials to Oslo, Vice President James W. Adams to defend the Bank.

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First visit to Sweden’s oldest partner: Tanzania Two months into her term as Development Minister for Sweden, Gunilla Carlsson travelled to Tanzania for a five-day visit ...