FUF's chancellor Anna Sjöberg Tibblin and board member Lennart Wohlgemuth have written the report "Swedish Multi-Bi Aid and Development Effectiveness" for the Expert Group for Aid Analysis (EBA).
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December 9, 2024, FUF news, News
Port-au-Prince a few months after the 2010 earthquake. Since the assassination of President Moïse in 2021, the city has been characterized by gang violence. Image: Siri BL/Flickr
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Doctors Without Borders announces in mid-November that it will leave Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. Behind the decision lies a series of events, most recently that Haitian police stopped one of MSF's ambulances and executed two men who received treatment in the vehicle.
November 29, 2024, News
FUF's non-profit has followed and reported on Ukraine for over 1000 days of full-scale war. Photo: Taine Noble/ Unsplash.
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Last week marked 1000 days since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Development magazine has followed and reported on the development from an early stage. For example in these texts and conversations.
November 25, 2024, News
People crowd along the popular Southbank cultural strip in London. Image: Oatsy40/Flickr
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The tourism industry, one of the world's largest markets, turns over trillions of dollars every year. Globalization has made travel easier, but has also led to negative consequences for people, animals and nature. Fclay initiative trying to reverse the trend.
November 25, 2024, News
Women at a stall selling veils near Tripoli. Archive image. Photo: David Stanley/Flickr
Of: Agnes Fältman
Libya's Minister of the Interior doesn't that, among other things, compulsory veiling for girls from the age of nine and a ban on "inappropriate" hairstyles and clothing should be introduced. the new rules and the country's "social values" afteris followed. Amnesty International criticizes the decision and believes that it worsens discrimination against women and girls.
November 13, 2024, News
A UN report shows a sharp reduction in child mortality since the turn of the millennium, but the reduction is not evenly distributed between different parts of the world and different age groups. Photo: Yvonne Larsson. Source: Flickr.
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Since the turn of the millennium, the death rate for children under the age of five in the world has halved, according to a UN report. Proximity and access to child and maternal health care, midwives and vaccinations are some of the explanations. But the work to reduce global child mortality is far from over, especially when it comes to mortality among newborns.
May 24, 2024, News
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently presented a six billion dollar aid package to Ukraine - which the Democrats had actually hoped would arrive in August 2023. Image: Chad J. McNeely. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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slate April. The support is part of a larger aid package that was voted on by Congress after a months-long standstill. The package gives Ukraine much of the equipment that the country has requested - but not all.
May 6, 2024, News
Global work on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is progressing, but there are still major differences in the global North and global South, according to a new UN report. Photo: MarijoAH12. Source: Wikimedia commons.
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At the same time, there is a big difference in sexual and reproductive rights in the global north and global south. It shows one new report by the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA.
April 25, 2024, News
On Tuesday, State Secretary Diana Janse answered questions about, among other things, the government's support for Swedish civil society, the reduced core support to the UN and the priority that aid should benefit Swedish interests. Photo: FUF.
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The government's changes in Sweden's aid policy mean, among other things, an increased focus on trade, migration and Ukraine. But the changes have provoked reactions, not least from civil society organisations. So how does the government actually view the role of Swedish civil society in development cooperation? And why has it been chosen to reduce nuclear support to the UN in a world filled with crises? These were some of the issues that were discussed during FUF's conversation with Diana janse, State Secretary to the Minister for Aid and Foreign Trade Johan Forssell (M).
February 7, 2024, News
Aid Minister Johan Forsell (M) and State Secretary Diana Janse invited civil society to get input on the aid reform agenda - which will be drawn up during the year. During the meeting, several organizations highlighted that it is unclear what the government actually means by effective aid. Photo: FUF.
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During Friday met several civil society organizations Aid Minister Johan Forssell (M) and State Secretary Diana janse for to discuss the reform agenda for the aid – to be designed under 2023. The link between trade and aid and what effective and transparent aid actually means were some of them the discussion points.
May 5, 2023, News
