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DT 9-10 / 2014

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Reflections on seven years of aid reforms. ‘There is still more to do’

Sweden’s Conservative development minister during seven years Gunilla Carlsson calls Swedish aid a “sleeping beauty” that she tried to wake up and shake up with her reform agenda. But, she says, she was not able to take on the last bastion of Swedish aid - her own ministry.

News September 03, 2014

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Ellen Margarethe Løj to represent UN in Juba

The veteran Danish diplomat has been appointed as UN Special Representative to South Sudan, replacing...

News September 03, 2014

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Norwegian Church Aid: Take climate out of the aid budget

In one month heads of state will gather in New York to attend Ban Ki-moon’s Climate Summit. From Norway,...

Opinion September 02, 2014

‘Greatest risk’ to Norway’s global forest experiment is lack of donor interest

A new evaluation of Norway’s forest climate initiative warns that in spite of impressive progress in...

News September 03, 2014

NOK 6.7 billion in unspent forest climate aid

Development Today’s analysis of figures presented in the evaluation of Norway’s forest climate initiative...

News September 03, 2014

More realism in the Norwegian CO2 emission bubble

Norway seems to have overcome the moral barrier to building gas-fired power plants in developing countries....

Opinion Editorial September 02, 2014

Norfund expands into gas, signs joint venture to scale up solar energy

Norway’s aid-funded investor Norfund is preparing to invest billions of crowns in African energy projects...

Business September 02, 2014

Sida aims to be an equity investor

The Swedish aid agency Sida has requested the government permission to add loans and equity investments...

Business September 02, 2014

Ecoenergy behind schecdule

The Ecoenergy sugar and biofuel project, for which Sida is considering giving its largest-ever guarantee...

Business September 02, 2014

Proposes a new Swedish development bank

Expansion of Sida’s innovative financing schemes creates challenges for management and division of labour...

Business September 02, 2014

Climate readiness in Africa

The Nordic Development Fund is joining forces with the World Bank and GIZ in a project to help Africa...

Business September 02, 2014

Economic recovery in Northern Mali

The Danish Foreign Ministry wishes to assist with ecomomic recovery in the Northern region of Mali, devastated...

Business September 02, 2014

Key Progress Party strategist joins Norad

A former State Secretary Pål Arne Davidsen will become the first high-ranking Progress Party member to...

News September 02, 2014

Burkina Faso water directorate audits

The Danish Embassy in Ouagadougou is calling for tenders for the audits of 13 Regional Directorates of...

Business September 02, 2014

Waste treatment in Vietnam

Finland is providing a concessional credit towards the cost of Phase 2 in the South Binh Duong Waste...

Business September 02, 2014

Danish aid boosts export drive, weakens focus on poor countries

In his first aid budget, Mogens Jensen (Labour), Denmark’s Trade and Development Minister, weakens the...

News September 03, 2014

Climate quota income softens impacts of cuts in Finnish aid

Finnish development aid continues to shrink, though the Foreign Ministry insists that the situation is...

News September 03, 2014

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