Please note: The cooperation strategies with the seven countries where PDC is the main aid modality, comes to an end in December 2013. This means that Sida will be restrictive in entering new agreements during 2012 and from January 2013, only planning grants might be granted for some of the countries No larger cooperation will be initiated during 2013. Please read more here.
Increasingly more countries are able to manage without traditional development aid and want to develop through building new relations. Sida hence invests more and more in stimulating relations between Swedish and foreign parties that builds on mutual interests and shared responsibility, and has the possibility of leading to long-term, self-sustaining relations.
Sida has for a long time worked in different ways to stimulate cooperation between Swedish entities and their counterparts in partner countries, but on a smaller scale. The intention of partner driven cooperation is to encourage actors to work together and throguht them catalyze sustaining relations between countries. Examples of actors eligible for PDC is authorities, trade unions, private companies, NGO’s, Universities, local governments, cultural institutions and scientists.
Sida prioritizes seven countries for partner driven cooperation that are called the selective cooperation countries and include Indonesia, India, China, Vietnam, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Partner driven cooperation is also relevant in other countries than the selective countries, on a smaller scale, in parallel with the traditional development cooperation.
The purpose of Partner Driven Cooperation is to establish sustainable relationships of mutual interest between Swedish and foreign actors. Effectively, this means that an actor in Sweden and an actor in the partner country initiate a partnership that falls within the framework of the strategic goals that are set for the country. The country strategies can be found under the description of Sida's work in each country.
The cooperation shall be characterized by shared ownership and responsibility, both administratively and financially. A key aspect of PDC is that both parties find a mutual benefit and interest in cooperating. The cooperation is meant to be self-supporting in the long term, and the support given by Sida should be time limited and catalytic. The goal of this type of development aid is to create three winners and stimulate a so-called "win-win-win" situation. The winners will eventually be people in poor conditions, actors in the partner countries and actors in Sweden
