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DT 1 / 2010

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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.

News February 04, 2010

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

In January 2000 in Davos, Bill and Melinda Gates stunned traditional donors by putting up an initial...

News February 04, 2010

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Swedfund makes its first Iraqi investment in private hospital

Swedfund has entered its first project in Iraq, an eye clinic in the city of Erbil, capital of Kurdistan....

Business February 04, 2010

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Mitigating climate change in agriculture

Agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, but there is also huge potential for...

Opinion February 04, 2010

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

The Geneva-based GAVI vaccine alliance plans a huge expansion of its programmes amid financial uncertainty...

News February 04, 2010

OECD’s climate headache: measuring ‘additionality’

In Copenhagen last month, rich countries agreed to provide USD 10 billion a year between now and 2012...

News February 04, 2010

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...

News February 04, 2010

Finland pledges more Afghanistan aid

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

News February 04, 2010

Shrunken Swedish NGO info budget

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has had to make some tough choices as...

News February 04, 2010

Swamped with proposals for democracy funds

Sida has received some 2,000 project proposals for a new democracy programme worth SEK 340 million over...

News February 04, 2010

Danish record: DKK 130m raised in telethon

In its fourth year, the Danish fund-raising telethon, Danmarks Indsamling, almost doubled its result...

News February 04, 2010

Lomøy of Norway to be Director at OECD

Norway’s Ambassador to Tanzania Jon Lomøy has been appointed Director of the OECD’s Development...

News February 04, 2010

Swedish chief of EU police mission in Palestine

Henrik Malmquist has taken over as Head of the EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories.

News February 04, 2010

New Chair of International Development Law

The University of Copenhagen has created a new Chair in International Development Law.

News February 04, 2010

Rigorous and transparent

The Copenhagen Accord, as vague as it is, does call for “deep cuts in global emissions".

Opinion Editorial February 04, 2010

New Swedish embassies

Swedish representative offices in Kigali, La Paz and Phnom Penh are being upgraded to embassies, the...

News February 04, 2010

Denmark must clarify its idea behind the Africa Commisson

A new report says the Danish-initiated Africa Commission does not distinguish between the roles of the...

Business February 04, 2010

Sharp drop in Danida contract volume in 2009

Readers of Development Today will recall that in the previous issue we reported on a sharp drop in the...

Business February 04, 2010

Evaluations currently being tendered

Finnish concessional credits scheme

Business February 04, 2010

Sida’s winter of discontent

First came the letter to the Development Minister from five Sida department heads. Then a second letter...

News February 04, 2010

Energy efficiency and conservation in Vietnam

The Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen announces a technical assistance contract for Support to the Vietnamese...

Business February 04, 2010

Finnish TA in Sudan eastern Nile watershed project

The Finnish Foreign Ministry invites consultants to tender for the Community Watershed Management component...

Business February 04, 2010

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