Zana Mustafa Rafiq, teacher at the Swedish Transport Academy, and the students Ammar Akram, Dilzar Muhammad and Shina Ababaker. Photo: Safin Hamed
 
Sida supports market development

Swedish vocational school creates jobs in Iraq

Better professional skills will help young Iraqui students find work. Sida participates in a collaboration project where a newly set up academy is to reduce poverty and meet the northern region's labour needs.
Performing tests and controlling compliance with standards is part of a well-functioning quality infrastructure. One of the actors is the privately owned analytical laboratory Chemiphar in Uganda. Photo: Chemiphar (U) Ltd
Sida supports market development

Quality and standard will improve business opportunities

Standardisation and quality certification of goods is to increase Ugandan companies' export opportunities to other countries. At the same time, it improves consumers' safety.
A course participant at the Securities Industry Training Institute recieves his certificate from the CEO of Nairobi Stock Exchange. Photo: IFC
Sida supports market development

Securities market to finance infrastructure

Long-term investments in key sectors will help develop Africa's infrastructure, but they need financing. Sida supports a programme to develop the local securities market, with the East Africa region as a successful pilot project.
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Responses from Sida after August 2012
Freedom - demonstration på Tahrirtorget våren 2011 Photo: Fredrik Uggla/Sida

Swedish Special Initiative for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression

The response to the latest Call for Proposals within the Swedish Special Initiative for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression, deadline April 15, was very positive. Sida has received over 1300 applications which indicate the great interest and need for interventions in these thematic areas. The assessment of the applications is now in process. Responses from Sida can be expected after August 2012.

Hamida Khatun med sin elvaåriga dotter Samia utanför skolan. Hamida har engagerat sig i skolan och nu hör den till de bästa i regionen. Photo: Therese Arnstorp

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.

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AECF competition - closes 15th June

DR Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia/Somaliland

Using innovative ideas to rebuild. AECF is now accepting proposals that combine commercial viability with development impact within agribusiness and rural financial services. Sida is the main funder. Read more at the webpage underneath.

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International Training Programmes

As part of Sida's work with capacity and institutional development Sida offers international training programmes (ITP) for participants from low-and middle-income countries in priority areas. ITP's methodology takes account of the desire to develop and reform that the participants' organization have expressed in their application to the program.

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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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.