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 6 - 10 of 273Improving water use in rainfed agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Summary report. [Summary report of the Project report prepared by IWMI for Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)].
Land policy in Africa: a framework to strengthen land rights, enhance productivity and secure livelihoods
Africa’s development remains dependent on agriculture and exploitation of natural resources, yet agriculture and livestock production are largely carried out by smallholder farmers under increasing pressure of scarce land resources managed under unsecured customary land ownership. African governments are seeking to address tenure insecurities to promote sustainable rural and urban development, and to address inequalities in land ownership between different social groups.
Cadre et lignes directrices sur les politiques foncières en Afrique : politiques foncières en Afrique:un cadre pour le renforcement des droits fonciers, l'amélioration de la productivité et des conditions d'existence
En 2006, la Commission de l’Union africaine, le CEA et la BAD ont enclenché un processus d’élaboration d’un cadre général et lignes directrices sur les politiques foncières et les réformes foncières en Afrique avec pour objectif de sécuriser les droits fonciers, d’améliorer la productivité et les conditions de vie de la majorité de la population du continent.
Framework and guidelines on land policy in Africa
The Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa is the result of a three-year road map of activities that involved intense reflection, rigorous consultations and exemplary collaboration across the continent. These activities involved African continental and
regional institutions, governments, prominent African land experts from all regions of
Scoping study on natural resources and climate change in Southeast Asia with a focus on agriculture. Final report