Sida is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. Through our work and in cooperation with others, we contribute to implementing Sweden’s Policy for Global Development (PGU).
We work in order to implement the Swedish development policy that will enable poor people to improve their lives. Another part of our mission is conducting reform cooperation with Eastern Europe, which is financed through a specific appropriation. The third part of our assignment is to distribute humanitarian aid to people in need of assistance.
We carry out enhanced development cooperation with a total of 33 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Our selection of cooperation countries are based on political decisions made by the Swedish government.
Sida’s mission is to allocate aid and other funding. Our operations are managed by the government’s guidelines, describing the goals for each year’s operations and the size of the development aid budget.
Our staff members and their expertise assist the government with the assessments and the information it needs, in order to decide and implement its development assistance policy. We participate in the advocacy work for Sweden’s prioritised issues within the international development cooperation field, and we are in constant dialogue with other countries and international organisations. Part of our assignment is also to report statistics and disseminate information about our operations.
Our work is financed by tax money and we administer approximately half of Sweden’s total development aid budget. The other part is channelled through the ministry for Foreign Affairs. All our work should be performed in a cost-effective way with a strong focus on results.
Sida has more than 700 employees, located in our three offices in Sweden as well as abroad in our cooperation countries.
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Displaying 71 - 75 of 273PMU Peaceful and resilient communities in Ethiopia 2023-2026
General
The project contributes to inclusive and sustainable peace in Ethiopia by increasing social cohesion and enhancing peacebuilding engagement by religious actors on national and regional levels. The project also focuses on strengthening the capacity of programme providers and local peacebuilders to carry out peace work, including psychosocial support, and developing approaches and practices for quality interventions.
Objectives
The overall goal of the programme is Peaceful and resilient communities, and that individuals, civil society groups and institutions contribute to good social co-existence in the Ethiopian society. Outcome 1: Social cohesion including psychosocial well-being increased in target communities affected by violent conflict. Outcome 2: CSOs, religious actors, women and youth are engaging in peace-building on local, regional, and national levels. Outcome 3: Communities in conflict-affected areas are integrated in the programmes HDP nexus approach, leading to increased resilience against food and economic insecurity. Outcome 4: Programme providers capacity is enhanced and approaches and practices are developed to strengthen the quality of interventions.
2022 Internal Control Review IGAD LG and IDDRSI
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This was commissioned to review the capacity of IGAD for Internal Control. The focus was on two Swedish contributions to IGAD: 1) IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative and 2) the Gender Responsive Land Administration of IGAD.
PMU Peaceful and resilient communities in Ethiopia 2023-2026
General
The project contributes to inclusive and sustainable peace in Ethiopia by increasing social cohesion and enhancing peacebuilding engagement by religious actors on national and regional levels. The project also focuses on strengthening the capacity of programme providers and local peacebuilders to carry out peace work, including psychosocial support, and developing approaches and practices for quality interventions.
Objectives
The overall goal of the programme is Peaceful and resilient communities, and that individuals, civil society groups and institutions contribute to good social co-existence in the Ethiopian society. Outcome 1: Social cohesion including psychosocial well-being increased in target communities affected by violent conflict. Outcome 2: CSOs, religious actors, women and youth are engaging in peace-building on local, regional, and national levels. Outcome 3: Communities in conflict-affected areas are integrated in the programmes HDP nexus approach, leading to increased resilience against food and economic insecurity. Outcome 4: Programme providers capacity is enhanced and approaches and practices are developed to strengthen the quality of interventions.
Global Fund for Women 2023 - 2026
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GFW's long-term vision is - "A world where movements for gender justice have transformed power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all" The new strategic plan builds on lessons from the last strategic period and aims to support GFW's continued organizational development to better support already functioning or newly emerging social movements. The strategic plan has the following five objectives: 1. Find and fund emerging gender justice movements poised for impact by leveraging data and insights. 2. Define and practice excellence in feminist grantmaking and support of gender justice movements - to maximize movement impact and minimize friction, burden, and competition. 3. Raise money in support of gender justice movements by building a community of support through relationships, including with feminist funds. 4. Promote gender justice by challenging the dominant narrative around philanthropy and co-creating opportunities for feminist solidarity, joy, and movement victories. 5. Grow a values-based organizational culture that aligns with our vision so we can show up better for each other and our partners. GFW forwards funds to organisations at the local level. Climate Justice is one of GFW's program areas and in 2022, 20% of all grants were directed to activities in this area. The grants go to activities that include sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and support for indigenous women's work for land rights. In 2022, 22% of all grants went to organizations that work with SRHR (sexual and reproductive justice).
FAO resilience rapid respons Burkina Faso 2018-2022
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Project name: "Réponse d’urgence et appui à l’amélioration de la résilience des populations vulnérables dans les zones à risque du Burkina Faso 2018-2021" ("Urgent response aiming at strengthening the resilience of vulnerabe households in risk zones in Burkina Faso 2018-2020"). The FAO project code is OSRO/BKF/801/SWE. Agreement partner and implementor: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations In Burkina Faso, poor rainfall distributions in recent years have reduced the area of cereal crops and the income generated by agriculture The joint SAP-GTP mission in October 2017 counted 83 municipalities at risk. Thus, the current crop year 2017-2018 cereal production was estimated to have decreased with 12% compared to the average for the last five years. The project reaches 28,000 poor and very poor households (according to the HEA classification) in the coverage regions, all of whom will benefit from the unconditional cash transfer during the lean season. In addition to unconditional cash transfer, 4100 self-selected households will have the opportunity to enroll in the «Cash for Work" activities (i.e. rehabilitation of communal infrastructures) during the mitigation and recovery period. Moreover, according to their main livelihoods, all households (HH) will receive productive assets: 2800 HH cereal production, 2500 HH small livestock restocking (sheep, goats, poultry, pigs depending on the choice), 1900 HH with livestock feed coupons and 2500 HH for market gardening coupled with nutritious gardens to strengthen their resilience. All targeted households (10 000) will also benefit from a nutritional education/sensitization programme. Among the targeted beneficiaries, special emphasis will be placed on women and young people in order to take into account their specific needs. Development objective: The resilience of vulnerable pastoralists and agro-pastoralists to climate and economic shocks is improved. The initial agreement had an activity period from 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2020 and a budget of 79 million SEK. The agreement was amended at end 2019 with a budget increase up to 129 million SEK. A second amendment was made at end 2020 with an extension of the activity period to 31 December 2021 and a budget increase up to the total of 189 million SEK. The amendments are justified by the dramatic increase of need for support to the local population due the worsened security situation and the increase of the number of internally displaced people to more than one million.
Objectives
This contribution aims to increase the resilience against climate chocks and economic chocks for vulnerable pastoralist and agro-pastoral households. Activities are conducted under three result areas: Results 1: Vulnerable households improved their access to food and means of production - Unconditional monetary assistance during the lean season - Carry out post-distribution monitoring studies - Support and strengthen food security alert and analysis system Result 2: The agro-sylvo-pastoral production capital of vulnerable households in the provinces heavily affected by the crisis is restored - Support households for animal fodder production - Distribution of fodder production seed and organic fertilizer - Support households for food production - Distribution of chickpea seed and fertilizer for food crops for the benefit of women - Support households for vegetable production - Distribution of vegetable seeds and fertilizer for organic gardening - Support for the creation of sustainable water mobilization infrastructure - Realization of boulis and establishment of infrastructure management committee - Support for the consolidation of peace - Creating conflict sensitive platforms - Set up awareness/training platform on issues for prevention and management of community conflicts Result 3: The nutritional situation of vulnerable households in the provinces heavily affected by the crisis in Burkina Faso is improved - Training in production and broadcasting of radio programs - Production of communication materials - Conditional cash transfer for nutritional purposes for the benefit of pregnant and breastfeeding women and families with children aged 0 to 5 years ________________________________ The 2022 extension period will also further focus on consolidating previous results made in the three result areas, by using a triple-Nexus approach "Humanitarian-Development-Peace", in the following focus areas: 1) Strengthening gender equality and target people with specific needs: - Strengthen the promotion of gender equality by addressing the specific needs of each group and by targeting at least 50% women and 50% young people, taking into account the degrees of vulnerability; - Take into account people with specific needs, disabilities, minorities or marginalized groups. 2) Strengthening the value chain approach and nutrition: - Strengthen the value-chain approach from production to marketing, including the processing of food, animal and non-timber forest products; - Address the issues of malnutrition through the prevention and management of malnutrition in children under five years, by strengthening training and raising awareness among the population; - Develop a cash and nutrition package for families with children under 5 years. 3) Strengthening structuring and sustainable production investments: - Contribute to the strengthening of the productive capacities of households with the creation of infrastructures for improved water management (boulis, pastoral drilling, etc.), recovery of degraded land and support for vocational training of beneficiaries; - Diversify food production by supporting the development of rice and vegetable gardening; - Develop income-generating activities, particularly for women and young people, in connection with the promotion of local and artisanal products. 4) Strengthening peace building through social cohesion and conflict prevention: - Set up mechanisms for the prevention and management of conflicts, in particular through Dimitra clubs and village savings and credit associations; - Organize consultations on land- and peace issues between local actors; - Organize debates and awareness sessions on land law, land management and the peaceful management of land conflicts through local radio stations with the involvement of trained young people; - Compilation of texts relating to land and distribution to local structures and actors.