The Geneva-based GAVI vaccine alliance plans a huge expansion of its programmes amid financial uncertainty among government donors. To pay for new activities over the next five years, GAVI will have to raise up to USD 4 billion - an amount equivalent to its total spending over the last decade.

Lack of EU membership colours Norway’s aid policy

Norwegian aid policy is strongly marked by efforts to compensate for the fact that Norway is not an EU member. This has resulted in Norwegian aid becoming fragmented and thinly spread.

OECD’s climate headache: measuring ‘additionality’

In Copenhagen last month, rich countries agreed to provide USD 10 billion a year between now and 2012 in new and additional climate aid resources. The question is: additional to what? Now it is up to the OECD, which monitors aid disbursements, to set the rules for how “additionality" is to be measured.

Finland pledges more Afghanistan aid

Finland was the only Nordic country to pledge new funds and troops to Afghanistan at the donor conference in London.

Seeks to avoid a tsunami funding dilemma in Haiti

While the public’s interest in supporting the victims of the Haitian earthquake continues, the Danish branch of MSF is raising money for its Haiti operations through a new unearmarked emergency fund. MSF is seeking to avoid the over-commitment of funds it experienced with the tsunami five years ago.

News / DT 1 / 2010

GAVI enters its second decade with multi-billion dollar funding gap

Lack of EU membership colours Norway’s aid policy

OECD’s climate headache: measuring ‘additionality’

Finland pledges more Afghanistan aid

Seeks to avoid a tsunami funding dilemma in Haiti

Shrunken Swedish NGO info budget

Gates announces USD 10b vaccine grant, but how much for GAVI?

Danish record: DKK 130m raised in telethon

Swamped with proposals for democracy funds

Lomøy of Norway to be Director at OECD

New Chair of International Development Law

Swedish chief of EU police mission in Palestine

New Swedish embassies