Sida's work in El Salvador

Successive natural disasters, widespread migration, high levels of poverty and global inflation have caused high needs of humanitarian support. Providing people with food, water and sanitation, shelter and health care is at the centre of Sida's humanitarian work in El Salvador.

Sida's work in El Salvador 2024

Total development assistance 53395693 SEK, Development cooperation 20395695 SEK, Humanitarian assistance 32999998 SEK.
The data is retrieved from the Openaid website. There you can see more data about where the aid goes and all the initiatives in the country.

Important thematic areas in El Salvador

Sida's work in El Salvador

In recent years, the country has experienced several extreme weather events, including hurricanes and tropical storms, extensive flooding and landslides. El Salvador is a migration hub, with people moving from, within and through the country to seek refuge from life-threatening situations.

Providing people with food, water and sanitation, shelter and health care is central to Sida’s humanitarian work in El Salvador.

Humanitarian support

Sida works in partnership with international humanitarian organisations and prioritises those most in need of support, such as refugees, children and young people, women, LGBTQ people, indigenous peoples and people with disabilities.

Sida’s humanitarian support saves lives and alleviates suffering.

The organisations that Sida supports in 2025 (in order of support size):

Learn more about Sida’s analysis of the humanitarian crisis, Sida’s support and how much money is distributed to each organisation in Sida’s crisis analysis.

Development cooperation

El Salvador does not have a Swedish country strategy for development cooperation as it is not one of the countries prioritised for development cooperation by the Swedish government. However, Sida implements a small amount of development cooperation through regional or global strategies.

Sidas bistånd i El Salvador på Openaid.se

 

Updated: July 3, 2025