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 246 - 250 of 274Design 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.
Fair Finance Asia Phase 2
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Fair Finance Asia (FFA) is a regional network of Asian CSOs committed to ensure that financial institutions' funding decisions respect the social and environmental well-being of local communities. It is managed by Oxfam Novib and based on the Fair Finance Guide International (FFGI) Methodology seeking to influence financial institutions to adhere to ESG (Environmental, Sustainability and Governance) criteria in their investments. The overarching goal is that banks operating at national and regional level contribute to positive outcomes for people in Asia through their financing and investments while reducing negative impacts on the climate, environment, human rights and gender equality. The first phase of the program, 2018 - 2022, included eight countries, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan and Japan. The reason for including Japan is that many Japanese banks invest in countries in Asia. Based on the positive results from phase 1, as well as the fact that FFA is in line with the priorities of the new regional strategy 2022 - 2026, Sida has decided to support a second phase. It covers five years and includes expansion to five new countries (Malaysia, Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Singapore and South Korea) and the regional influencing will focus two main themes; Just Energy Transition and Gender Lens Financing. The program has four result areas; 1) Financial institutions (FI) operating across the region increasingly adopt or improve sustainable finance policies, practices, and public disclosure. 2) Regulators and governments increase independent monitoring of FI policy, practice and accountability and transparency, and improve the regulation of FIs, including through mandatory regulation. 3) Regional financial sector actors take increasing actions to require and enforce improved standards for FIs’ policies, practices, accountability and transparency. 4) Strong and resilient civil society across the region effectively influences the sustainable finance agenda across the region, integrating a gender lens and community voice. Other actors have increased awareness and take increased action to influence the sustainable finance agenda. More information is available on the website: www.fairfinanceasia.org.
Objectives
The expected impact of the intervention is that: Financial institutions operating across Asia increasingly accelerate positive outcomes for communities and the environment through their financing and investments, while reducing negative impacts on the climate, environment, human rights, inclusion, gender equality, food security, and land rights. The intervention has five result areas and the following objectives... 1) Financial institutions operating across the region increasingly adopt or improve sustainable finance policies, practices and public disclosure. 2) Regulators and governments increase independent monitoring of financial institution policy, practice, accountability and transparency, and improve the regulation of financial institutions, including through mandatory regulation. 3) Regional financial sector actors take increasing actions to require and enforce improved standards for FIs policies, practices, accountability and transparency. 4) Stronger and resilient civil society across the region effectively influences the sustainable finance agenda, integrating a gender lens and community voice. 5) Other stakeholders (intermediary stakeholders) have increased awareness and taken more action to influence the sustainable finance agenda.
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.
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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.