It is the responsibility of each country to adopt its own strategies for economic development and for combating poverty. This strategy forms the basis for the cooperation strategy that Sweden and respective countries or regions form together.
With which countries and within which areas that we should focus our work are political decisions taken by the Swedish government. Swedish development aid follows three thematic priorities; democracy and human rights, environment and climate change and gender equality and womens' role. Together with efforts to promote economic development and humanitarian support they encompass all our activities.
In order to implement strategies and carry out its work Sida cooperates with a large number of organisations, associations, agencies, companies and cooperatives.
A total of 16 Swedish organisations currently have framework agreements with Sida, which means, for example, that they contribute 10 percent of the costs of joint projects. This includes organisations such as Africa Groups of Sweden, Diakonia, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Save the Children Sweden, the Church of Sweden and the World Wildlife Fund for nature.
In addition, Sida also has agreements with a number of Swedish government agencies. The aim is for their expertise and experience to be of use in partner countries.
Sida also cooperates with other countries’ development aid agencies. In addition, Sida cooperates with international agencies like the UN, the EU and the World Bank.
Combating corruption is an important issue in the cooperation and dialogue between Sweden and our partner countries.
Corruption is not only a significant threat to combating poverty and development cooperation. It is also a serious threat to all forms of economic, social and democratic development.
If money disappears from a project or if there are deficiencies in a project’s auditing Sida demands that the funds be returned. Payments are suspended while an ongoing investigation is conducted until the deficiencies have been addressed.
Our mission
To help create conditions that will enable poor people to improve the quality of their lives.
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Read more about how Sida works in the brochure Swedish Development Cooperation (pdf) .
