Swedish Development Cooperation
An effective development cooperation of high quality is required if Sweden is to contribute to an environment supportive of poor people´s own efforts to improve their quality of life.
The objective of Swedish development cooperation is to help creating conditions that will enable poor people to improve their lives. Development cooperation focuses on combating poverty. To reduce poverty as effectively as possible, there must be greater openness and transparency in Swedish development cooperation to pave the way to more successful results.
The priorities of partner countries are the platform
The priorities and policies of recipient countries shall
form the platform of Sweden´s development cooperation.
The cooperation shall be demand driven and complement
the poverty reduction efforts made by developing
countries themselves.
Effectiveness and results
Sweden is strengthening the governance of its development cooperation in order to clarify results in relation to established goals. These efforts are in line with the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, adopted by OECD countries and a large number of developing countries. Swedens bilateral development cooperation focuses on 33 countries and on involvement in a few sectors in each country with the aim of rendering Swedish development cooperation as effective as possible.
Multilateral cooperation
Much of the Swedish development cooperation is channelled through multilateral development organisations such as the UN, development banks (e.g. the World Bank) and global funds. Being board members or through other forms of dialogue, Sweden influences how these organisations implements their activities and design their policies. The Swedish strategy for multilateral development cooperation governs the actions of Sweden.
Development cooperation through the EU
Together, EU Member States and the European Commission
contribute with over half the world´s development aid. This makes the EU the worlds largest donor. The EU has a common development policy, the aim of which is to eradicate poverty in a sustainable way and to contribute to the UN Millennium Goals. Sweden influences both the development cooperation managed by the European Commission and the development cooperation pursued by EU Member States through political agreements in the EU.
Three thematic priorities
Three thematic issues are given priority in the development
cooperation:
a) democracy and human rights
b) gender equality and the role of women in development
c) climate and environment.
These are to be seen as depictions of the type of development the Swedish Government wishes to see and support.
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External links
- Saving lives and alleviating suffering Policy for Swedens Humanitarian Asistance 2010-2016
- Peace and Security for Development Policy for Security and Development in Swedish Development Cooperation 2011-2014
- Policy for environmental and climate issues 2010-2014
- Research for Development - policy for research in Swedish development cooperation & strategy for Sida's support for research cooperation
- Pluralism -Policy for Sweden´s support to civil society in developing countris
- On Equal Footing Policy for Gender Equality and the Rights and Role of Women
- Change for freedom Policy for democratic development and human rights in Swedish development cooperation, 2010-2014
- Policy for economic growth 2010-2014
- The Right to a Future Policy for Sweden´s International HIV and AIDS Efforts
- Openaid.se Swedish development data
