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DT 6 / 2014

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South Sudan promised transparency, a few donors opened their wallets

Donors want the South Sudan government to stop the fighting and pay its share of the cost of the humanitarian relief effort. But they have little leverage and they are not waiting. In Oslo, USD 619 million in new money was pledged to avert a massive famine, most of it from just four donors.

News June 10, 2014

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Leaving Juba

The top United Nations envoy in South Sudan Hilde Frafjord Johnson will resign in July after three years...

News June 10, 2014

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Norway aims to end to aid fragmentation

The Conservative-led government in Oslo has, since last fall, promised to do something about the problem...

News June 10, 2014

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Development aid for rich-country businesses

Governments in the north increasingly seek to create synergies between development assistance and private...

Opinion June 10, 2014

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Danes support Mother Earth in Bolivia

Danish forest and climate aid takes a unique form in a country where the rights of the Earth are written...

News June 10, 2014

Syrian chemical weapons transport financed by aid

The lion’s share of costs related to Norwegian involvement in the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons...

News June 10, 2014

Red Cross loses ground in Sweden

The Red Cross system used to be Sida’s main channel for humanitarian funding. Other relief organisations...

News June 10, 2014

Finland last in line with new ‘corruption button’

The Finnish Foreign Ministry announces that its new aid corruption hotline is the first of its kind in...

News June 10, 2014

Supports education in Pakistan

Denmark has committed to provide DKK 60 million in support for a UNICEF education programme for children...

News June 10, 2014

‘Economic diplomacy’: Denmark to expand aid-financed twinning with state agencies

Copenhagen plans to beef up aid-financed technical assistance provided by Danish bureaucrats as part...

Business June 10, 2014

Denmark joins in on Nordic aid-financed export of bureaucrats

The danes are the Nordic traders. They have over the years found many ways to boost export related to...

Opinion Editorial June 10, 2014

Considers new private sector aid schemes

Norway is examininghow it can expand and improve its business aid instruments. The Blue-Blue government...

Business June 10, 2014

Government lifts Norfund’s ban on tax havens

The Norwegian government has reversed its decision that banned the aid-financed risk capital fund Norfund...

Business June 10, 2014

Rural infrastructure in Northern Uganda

Denmark plans to spend DKK 60 million on the Rural Infrastructure Strategic Intervention component of...

Business June 10, 2014

Denmark launches agriculture fund at IFU

The Danish government has established yet another investment fund within the Danish Investment Fund for...

Business June 10, 2014

Zambia electricity pricing study

Sida has provided funding for in-depth study of electricity pricing in Zambia. The Energy Regulation...

Business June 10, 2014

Nordic evaluations of capacity building

Denmark will, as part of a joint-project with Norway and Sweden, evaluate its development assistance...

Business June 10, 2014

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