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After Busan: a new aid paradigm?
Of: Göran Hyden
The so-called fourth high-level meeting in South Korea's Busan in early December has delivered both an ambitious and radical report that suggests the will to take the step fully in terms of making aid more recipient-centered. The statement has broad support. Representatives of governments in the north and south as well as civil society, business and international organizations are behind the proposal […]
December 22, 2011, Debate
Broaden knowledge acquisition in development assistance!
Of: Göran Hyden
For half a century, the development aid world has tried to steer the development of society in poor countries on the basis of its own premises. The demand that development assistance reflects the values at home has meant that donors have been prisoners in a political world of mind that in many critical respects is lacking on the recipient side, including the governmental level. The interest in trying to understand these countries in a broader and more long-term perspective […]
February 21, 2012, Debate
Minister for Development Aid and budget support
Of: Bertil Odén
A debate has flared up about general budget support - a form of aid that was high on the agenda five or six years ago, but has lost ground sharply over the past two years. Ironically, this has happened in parallel with new international evaluations showing that budget support can deliver many of the positive effects that are expected and that in […]
February 28, 2012, Debate
The EU's hunt for raw materials threatens development in Africa
Of: Karin Gregow
In an increasingly fierce battle for the world's natural resources, the EU is using trade agreements to secure the supply of raw materials. The EU's hunt for cheap natural resources risks locking African countries in the raw material trap and slowing down industrialization in Africa. Sweden must work to ensure that trade agreements between the EU and Africa benefit African development.
March 8, 2012, Debate
Some strategic choices for Swedish development assistance
Of: Bertil Odén
Poverty, raw materials and energy supply, climate and environmental threats and the Western world's economic crisis are some of the global challenges, in the shadow of which international and Swedish development assistance is acting. In recent years, new theories, trends and actors have emerged and influenced the direction and forms of international aid, blurred the boundaries between aid and other policy areas and made […]
July 2, 2012, Debate
Democracy and development come from below
The place of popular movements in future Swedish development assistance must be secured Swedish development assistance is changing, but it is still unclear exactly what proposals exist and how development assistance will be organized in the future. However, popular movement assistance seems to be threatened by cut funding, sharply reduced information subsidies and increased self-efforts. If this is done so that the popular movements' aid co-operation must add […]
July 26, 2012, Debate
How should the future aid evaluation be designed?
Of: Anders Olofsgård
In May this year, the State Treasury published the report "Evaluation of Swedish development assistance - a review of evaluation activities". The report highlighted many shortcomings in the evaluation work, and emphasized that the independent evaluation authority SADEV had not lived up to expectations and that a "restart" would be desirable. Against this background, a working group within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommended this June that the government take […]
August 31, 2012, Debate
Book review: "On the way to the president"
Of: Inge Gerremo
Stig Holmqvist is one of our most experienced observers of life in East Africa. In the book "On the way to the president", he shares in a captivating way his long experience. His focus is the local level, a perspective that has become increasingly rare in the development debate. Many of us who came in contact with Africa on […]
October 23, 2012, Debate
Earth, blood and oil - South Sudan's first year of independence
South Sudan has been independent for just over a year. The problems the new country faced were known in advance, but the population still had high hopes for what freedom would bring. People are now plagued by conflict, corruption, illiteracy, unemployment, underemployment, lack of roads, schools and hospitals. They are magnificent obstacles in the work of creating […]
October 31, 2012, Debate
Swedish development assistance is 'elderly blind'
Of: Day of Honor
"As the international community embarks on an effort to articulate the post-2015 development agenda, it is clear that the issue of population aging should be fully addressed as part of this process." - Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Government and the Association for Development Affairs, FUF, do something together when in the budget bill resp. latest FUF magazine […]
November 15, 2012, Debate