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DT 20 / 2009

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Where are the commitments to end hunger?

World leaders and governments met in Rome in November for the World Summit on Food Security. The terrible background for the summit was that more than a billion people are starving. The declines in agriculture aid may now be turning a corner, but the way new money is spent is as important as the aid level.

Opinion December 22, 2009

Norway’s aid spending on refugees unprecedented in OECD

Norway boosts its aid to a record high level by reporting domestic costs for refugee expenses on scale...

News December 22, 2009

No ‘new’ Nordic climate aid money on the table in Copenhagen

One of the few concrete numbers in the Copenhagen climate agreement is the collective commitment by rich...

News December 22, 2009

Top-level Sida staff hit back at Gunilla Carlsson

In an unprecedented letter to Development Minister Gunilla Carlsson, five top-level Sida officials have...

News December 22, 2009

FAO seeks central role for agriculture in climate

FAO has launched a programme to establish reliable statistics on the role of agriculture to greenhouse...

News December 22, 2009

Deeper scrutiny of multilaterals will be extended to GAVI, Global Fund

A group of 15 donors, which carry out joint reviews of UN agencies and the World Bank, will extend their...

News December 22, 2009

Compromising aid

A cornerstone in the Norwegian aid tradition has been to observe international standards and not bend...

Opinion Editorial December 22, 2009

Donor practice on reporting refugee costs as ODA varies widely

Donor practice on the reporting of refugee costs as ODA varies significantly. While all the Nordic nations...

News December 22, 2009

Nokia joins Finnish aid project to promote use of mobile technology

Finland is providing EUR 11.9 million in aid financing for a new form of collaboration with the mobile...

Business December 22, 2009

Swedfund, Sida join forces to invest in Vietnam

The Swedish aid agency Sida and the investment fund Swedfund have joined forces to support a SEK 365...

Business December 22, 2009

Tørnæs speeds up Africa Commission agenda

Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs has approved three new projects as part of the follow-up of the...

Business December 22, 2009

Norfund invests in avocado plantation in Tanzania

Norfund, the Norwegian aid-financed risk capital fund, has invested USD 4 million in Africado Limited,...

Business December 22, 2009

Finnfund invests in Latin America

The Finnish aid-financed risk capital fund Finnfund has, together with several Development Finance Institutions,...

Business December 22, 2009

Upcoming Norad-financed evaluations in new year

An overview of on-going and planned evaluations financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation...

Business December 22, 2009

Land administration planning in Ethiopia phase 2

Finland intends to extend a land administration programme in Ethiopia for another five years (2010-2014)...

Business December 22, 2009

Burkina Faso national water supply programme

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs will finance the technical assistance for a National Programme...

Business December 22, 2009

Defends capital flight study

Members of Norway’s Commission on Capital Flight reject the Finance Ministry’s criticism of the commission...

News December 22, 2009

Donors set in motion second AMC vaccine initiative

Donors have asked GAVI and the World Bank to put together a panel of experts to explore a second Advance...

News December 22, 2009

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