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 206 - 210 of 273Design phase property tax reform, Lantmäteriet
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Lantmäteriet has applied to Sida to fund a design phase of a new development cooperation project between geodetic authorities in BiH and Lantmäteriet (Swedish mapping, cadastre and land registration authority)
Objectives
Lantmäteriet has applied to Sida to fund a design phase of a new development cooperation project between geodetic authorities in BiH and Lantmäteriet (Swedish mapping, cadastre and land registration authority) The design phase is lasting from May 2022 to May 2023.
AFR100 Phase II - Inception
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This is a contribution to biodiversity conservation by strengthening the capacity to restore 100 million hectares of forest landscape in Africa.
Objectives
Under the second phase of support the AUDA-NEPAD/AFR100 Secretariat aims to actualize the transition from commitments towards implementation by supporting the AFR100 countries in actualizing their restoration commitments on the ground, through various forest and landscape restoration actions. The actualization of the countries restoration commitments will contribute to reversing the negative impacts of deforestation, environmental and land degradation, realize healthy, productive landscapes, enhance livelihoods of smallholder and rural producers, and subsequently build the resilience of rural communities in Africa, who are most susceptible to risk factors. The Concept Note of AUDA-NEPAD/ AFR100 Secretariat for consideration under the New Swedish Strategy for Regional Cooperation in Africa has three components for the Phase 2 Project, which include: 1) Scaling up the Land Accelerator Programme (LAP): Increased support to Women and Youth restoration entrepreneurs 2) Strengthening Resilience through Sustainable Land Restoration: Support to Implementation of Land Restoration Commitments Support to AFR100 3) Implementation Monitoring: Tracking and reporting AFR100 Implementation The proposed four-month inception phase will allow the AFR100 Secretariat to further elaborate on the Concept note, expanding on the envisaged activities and implementation modalities for each of the three project components, particularly Component 2, as well as the associated budget for Phase 2. In addition, during the inception phase, AFR100 secretariat will contibute toAFR100 Management Team (MT) Retreat and Land Accelerator Boot Camp; and will support National Capacity Building Workshop for Strengthening AFR100 Implementation and Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration in South Africa.
Diakonia EU-Peru 2021-2024
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Diakonia has applied for funding of 2 725 000 SEK to carry out the EU project "Compromisos multilaterales entre empresas y agentes comunitario hacia el fortalecimiento de un marco de derechos, institucionalidad y sostenibilidad en Ica y Cotabambas" during the period 2021-2024. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the development of multilateral commitments between companies and community agents towards the strengthening of a framework of rights, institutions, and sustainability to reduce, prevent and remedy negative impacts of agro-export and mining activities on territories and populations involved in this sector in the provinces of Ica and Cotabambas. The specific objective of the project is to develop capacities and empower men and women from social organizations in multi-stakeholder spaces for local development in the provinces of Ica and Cotabambas; for the incorporation of sustainable land management practices, due diligence mechanisms and a gender approach in agro-export and mining business activities. In this project Diakonia will collaborate with three organizations: COOPERACCION, CODEHICA, PERU EQUIDAD. Diakonia is the lead applicant and has the main responsibility to implement and coordinate the project. The current contribution has the EU-commission reference number: EuropeAid/166151/DH/ACT/Multi. The contribution has a total budget of 1 250 000 EUR which is approximately 12 721 933,79 SEK. Diakonia has been provided 1000 000 EUR from the EU-commission and is applying for 2 725 000 SEK (approximately 20%) from Sida.
SWE-2012-143: Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions
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Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions. Large scale land acquisitions (LLA) are rapidly becoming a controversial political issue, often allegedly driven by anticipations of climate change and/or as unintended effects of climate change policies. The current understanding of both drivers and implications are insufficient and there is an urgent to need to understand if LLA is detrimental or beneficial to local communities affected by land deals. The project will make use of new comprehensive datasets on global LLA in order to unravel the emerging patterns and to explore the drivers. We will also make an in-depth study of one of the prime targets of LLA, Ethiopia. Here we will analyse the role of relevant stakeholders (investors as well as public and private actors at the national and local level) and the implications for local communities affected by LLA, particularly the gender implications of changing access to land.
SWE-2012-115: Adapting to changing climate in drylands: The re-greening in Sahel as a potential success case
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Over the past 20 years a substantial greening trend has occurred in parts of the West African Sahel. Understanding the extent to which this is happening, the implications for livelihoods in the region and the human dimensions behind this greening is interesting for climate change adaptation. This occurs in a region where climate change is expected and where there is a prevailing perception that human induced land degradation is common. We compare several different regions in Niger and Burkina Faso that has been *greening up* to different levels, but which have similar biophysical and social preconditions. In each region we study the re-greening, map out the history of social and biophysical driving forces behind it, link the greening to ecosystem services for livelihoods, and build scenarios based on the farmers perception of the future.