Papua New Guinean worker harvests a ripe palm fruit to ready for the mill. Photo: Jürgen Freund / WWF-Canon
 
Cooperation with the private sector

Sustainable agriculture will improve livelihoods

With the global consumption of palm oil rising, the plantations of palm oil trees keep expanding, threatening our environment. Through its Market Transformation Initiative, WWF is working to increase the demand for responsibly produced global commodities.
Kenyan girls demonstrating Ruby Cups Photo: Ruby Cup
Cooperation with the private sector

Ruby Cup – the number-one choice

Poor menstrual hygiene is a large health problem for girls and women living in poverty, as sanitary protection is very expensive. With funds from Sida’s Innovations Against Poverty initiative, Ruby Cup markets menstrual cups to women and girls living in poverty.
Young men outside a shop in Erbil in northern Iraq Photo: Global Reporting
Cooperation with the private sector

Supporting Iraq's move to market economy

Private sector growth in Iraq is seen as key to creating jobs. Sida is funding a World Bank Programme to improve state-owned companies, reduce regulatory burden and private business and improve the dialogue between the private and public sector.
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Ring the Bell!
Kvinnosymbolen Photo: Sida

One million men, One million promises

Sida joins the international campaign One Million Men, One Million Promises - "Ring the Bell". Just like Ban-Ki-moon and other prominent men around the world, the men in Sida's organization ring the bell and give promises to act, in big or small, to prevent gender violence.

Girl from Amhara Photo: Johan Bergqvist/Sida

Report on Sida's results: Democracy, Human Rights and Human Rights based approach

A shortened version of Sida's Results Appendix to our Annual Report 2011. Describes results of activities focusing mainly on democratic development and greater respects for human rights as well as how the human rights approach is applied.

Abdallah Muhammed, Kenya Photo: Linda Essner

People first

We are committed to enabling people to get a better life. The individual person is always the focus of our work. Here you will meet some people involved in Swedish development assistance. Let them explain how their situation has changed.

Whistleblowing
Visselpipa Photo: Sida

If you suspect corruption

If you suspect corruption in connection with a development assistance project, or if you are aware that development assistance funds are not being managed in accordance with what has been agreed, you can report it. You can choose to be anonymous.

Sweden has supported Uganda's water and sanitation sector for over ten years. The important progress has strengthened Uganda's institutions dealing with water resources. Photo: Helen Holm

How an intervention comes about

Why does Sida choose to support democracy activists in Tunisia or hospitals in DR Congo? Will aid to farmers in Bolivia help improve their situation or is development achieved by supporting market development in East Africa? There are many factors that influence when Sida decides to support an intervention.

Camilita har utbildat sig till webdesigner på en skola för ungdomar från Nairobis slumområden. Sida arbetar i Kenya med urban utveckling, för att skapa bättre villkor för de fattiga i slummen. Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos
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Procurement Q&As

Q&A about procurement at Sida. What regulations apply? What if I submit after the deadline? How do I know what documents are required?
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Open Aid
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Sweden's aid - open and internationally comparable

Openaid.se is a web-based information service about Swedish aid built on open government data. The data is published according to the international IATI-standard, which means that it is freely available and compatible with data from other countries and donors.