The strategy will apply in 2022–2026 and provide a total of SEK 3 500 million. The strategy governs the use of funds under appropriation item 1:1.9 ‘Africa’ in the appropriation directions for Sida...
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Strategy for Sweden’s humanitarian aid provided through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 2021–2025
The purpose of the strategy is to manage Sweden’s humanitarian aid via the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The overall objective of Sweden’s humanitarian aid is to save...
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and UNICEF Announce $150 Million Guarantee to Support Access to Vaccines and Health Supplies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
New four-year commitment will help UNICEF procure COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines; mitigate the pandemic’s disruption of routine immunization; and support the procurement of other essential...
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Early Warning and Early Action for Increased Resilience of Livelihoods in the IGAD Region - Executive Summary
The East Africa region is amongst the most food insecure areas of the world and the number of crises affecting the East Africa region will likely continue to increase due to the effects of climate...
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool: Facilitation guide for WASH project managers, researchers and self-assessment facilitators; Working Towards Transformation in Inclusive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
The facilitated self-assessment provides the opportunity to discuss and reflect on current strengths and how to improve processes that drive positive change in GESI through your projects and...
Gender Equality and Dimensions of Poverty
Gender equality is a prerequisite for poverty reduction and sustainable development. Gender equality is achieved when women and men, girls and boys, have equal rights, life prospects and...
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Urban Planning Responses in Post-Crisis Contexts
UN-Habitat’s Lab uses global experiences from Haiti to Kenya to explore strategies for urban planning in post-crisis areas Nairobi, December 2020 - UN-Habitat's Urban Planning and Design Lab has...
Sida’s work for Gender Equality
WHY THIS TOOL? This tool is developed as a support to Sida and Swedish embassy staff in their work. The tool gives an introduction to gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment, why it is...
Humanitarian-Development- Peace Nexus
Description: While the world has seen a global decline in extreme poverty over the last decades, poverty is increasingly concentrated to situations affected by armed conflicts, fragility and complex...
Gender Equality Policy Marker - November 2020
The Gender Equality Policy Marker is used by Sida and other OECD-DAC members to provide a measure of aid allocated in support of gender equality.
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Portfolio Overview 2019: Peace and Security
Armed conflict constitutes one of the main obstacles to sustainable development. Violent conflict causes human suffering and hinders pathways out of poverty. According to OECD 76,5 % of the world’s...
SIDA Information Brief: Health and linkages to Climate Change and Environment
INTRODUCTION The human-induced negative impact on the environment results in death, diseases and injuries, impacting the quality of life, reducing productivity, and burden the health systems. The...
Increasing Links Between Humanitarian Cash and Social Protection for an Effective Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
We, representatives of donors, UN agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and INGOs listed below, recommend that governments, donors, development and humanitarian partners increase...
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Portfolio Overview 2019: Education
Description: Education plays a fundamental role in human, social and economic development. Investments in good quality education, especially in the education of girls, are of fundamental importance...
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Portfolio Overview 2019: Water and Sanitation
Description: Access to safe drinking water and sanitation is crucial, not only for people’s health and wellbeing, but also for poverty reduction and economic development. Sweden promotes efficient,...
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Portfolio Overview 2019: Education and Migration – access to inclusive and equitable education
Description: Migration and displacement often place children without access to quality education. To achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on inclusive and equitable quality education,...
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Portfolio Overview 2019: Food Security and Agriculture
Description: Poverty and hunger are closely linked. It is estimated that more than 820 million people still suffer from hunger in the world, a number that continues to increase. Sustainable...
Sida’s support to United Nations Organisations
In 2019, United Nations (UN) organisations together received SEK 8.7 billion from Sida, a third of Sida’s overall development cooperation budget. Sida’s cooperation with the UN organisations has...
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Portfolio Overview 2019: Democracy and Human Rights
Democracy and human rights are essential for people living in poverty and under oppression in order to give them power to improve their living conditions and societies. Sida’s support to the thematic...
Evaluation at Sida: Annual Report 2019
1 Introduction 1.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT The purpose of the annual report is to provide an overview of what and how Sida evaluates along with observations on emerging issues and...