Sida is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. Through our work and in cooperation with others, we contribute to implementing Sweden’s Policy for Global Development (PGU).
We work in order to implement the Swedish development policy that will enable poor people to improve their lives. Another part of our mission is conducting reform cooperation with Eastern Europe, which is financed through a specific appropriation. The third part of our assignment is to distribute humanitarian aid to people in need of assistance.
We carry out enhanced development cooperation with a total of 33 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Our selection of cooperation countries are based on political decisions made by the Swedish government.
Sida’s mission is to allocate aid and other funding. Our operations are managed by the government’s guidelines, describing the goals for each year’s operations and the size of the development aid budget.
Our staff members and their expertise assist the government with the assessments and the information it needs, in order to decide and implement its development assistance policy. We participate in the advocacy work for Sweden’s prioritised issues within the international development cooperation field, and we are in constant dialogue with other countries and international organisations. Part of our assignment is also to report statistics and disseminate information about our operations.
Our work is financed by tax money and we administer approximately half of Sweden’s total development aid budget. The other part is channelled through the ministry for Foreign Affairs. All our work should be performed in a cost-effective way with a strong focus on results.
Sida has more than 700 employees, located in our three offices in Sweden as well as abroad in our cooperation countries.
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Displaying 216 - 220 of 274SWE-2012-137: Land Grabbing or Agricultural Investments: the Two Sides of the Coin
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During the last decade land acquisitions by foreign investors in developing countries have accelerated tremendously. This project aims to enhance our understanding about the determinants and effects of this process. First, what determines where the acquis
SWE-2012-020: WATER POLITICS IN THE NILE BASIN: EMERGING LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE HYDROPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE
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This research aims to investigate the water and land nexus in the Nile Basin seeking to understand how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water interaction in the region. The countries which will be analysed in a comparative perspective are Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda and the key questions are: 1) Which are the key land acquisitions in the region? 2) Under what contractual conditions are they undertaken? 3) What type of water will be used for agricultural development? 4) How do the water interests between the riparians differ - in terms of preference for irrigation, hydropower or other? 5) How do the new land acquisitions and the water use affect the overall political stability and development in the region?
SWE-2012-020: WATER POLITICS IN THE NILE BASIN: EMERGING LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE HYDROPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE
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This research aims to investigate the water and land nexus in the Nile Basin seeking to understand how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water interaction in the region. The countries which will be analysed in a comparative perspective are Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda and the key questions are: 1) Which are the key land acquisitions in the region? 2) Under what contractual conditions are they undertaken? 3) What type of water will be used for agricultural development? 4) How do the water interests between the riparians differ - in terms of preference for irrigation, hydropower or other? 5) How do the new land acquisitions and the water use affect the overall political stability and development in the region?
SWE-2012-020: WATER POLITICS IN THE NILE BASIN: EMERGING LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE HYDROPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE
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This research aims to investigate the water and land nexus in the Nile Basin seeking to understand how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will af
UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALES OF DONORS-FUNDED CIVIL SOCIETY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A GAME THEORY APPROACH
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This project questions the view, mainly based on Putnam´s theory of social capital that civil society in form of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in developing countries can act as agency for social change. Based on this view, large funds have been channeled to NGOs with the assumption that NGOs can advance development and stimulate democracy. Where corruption is the social norm due to the lack of appropriate rules, empirical evidence does not correspond to social capital theory. There is often a discrepancy between the assumed role of NGOs according to the premises of social capital and their behavior that has been described as being corrupt and self-serving. There is however no conducted studies to explain from a theoretical point of view why NGOs often perform the way described. Thus our research aims to bridge this academic gap. We put forward and examine the applicability of game theory to explain the behavior of NGOs. We explore the different rationales of NGOs in relation to their specific context. The research is designed as case studies and will use the described qualitative and quantitative methods. We aim to contribute to theoretical development of our understanding of civil society, in particular regarding the role of the social context and linking theory with practice. The research will also generate knowledge for policy measures on the usefulness of aid to fulfill the purposes of advancing development and democracy goals.