Ongoing studies

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EBA has commissioned an evaluation on Sweden’s efforts to strengthen state capacity in fragile and conflict affected situations. The following questions shall guide the study: To what extent and how have Swedish aid made a clear...

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Productive employment and decent work is one of the most important ways out of poverty for individuals and groups in low- and middle-income countries. This means that job creation and employment can be considered key goals for development...

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Extensive resources must be mobilized for the world to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, with significant emissions reductions required immediately if temperature increases are to remain below 1.5 degrees C. An assumption of the...

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A significant share of international development assistance goes to interventions aimed to increase access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). But despite large investments in the sector, impacts in terms of increased handwashing,...

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Bangladesh has experienced significant economic growth and social development in recent years, but this has not benefited the whole population. The study addresses the questions of why and how Bangladesh’s economic development has...

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The study aims to shed light on work with transparent Swedish aid, through the web site Openaid and in general. The study will partly follow up the Swedish transparency work, and partly discuss why Sweden has ranked relatively low in...

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Corruption is a major hindrance to sustainable development. Within Swedish development cooperation, the work against corruption relates to two main areas – corruption as an obstacle to development and corruption in development projects....

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EBA has commissioned an evaluation of the long-term development cooperation between Liberia and Sweden, focusing on the period following the Second Liberian Civil war that ended in 2003. The aim of the evaluation is twofold: To...

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Constitutions are at the basis of societies. The fundamental rules and laws of how the society should be ruled are expressed in constitutions. They are thus fundamental pillars for social contracts and at the hart of most peace processes...

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The links between land tenure and adaptation to climate change are now well established. The IPCC as well as UN-Habitat have shown that tenure rights are important preconditions for peoples’ and societies’ capacity to be resilient to...

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The agreement between a vast set of government, donors and NGOs at the humanitarian summit in Istanbul 2016 called for major reforms of the international humanitarian system. Some of what was agreed in this ‘Grand Bargain’ is on the...

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Swedish development cooperation shall “support a transition to a fossil-free economic development, built on a resource-efficient, circular and biobased economy with non-toxic flows”. To achieve this, Sweden gives large support to the...

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The purpose of this evaluation is to investigate to what extent and how Sweden’s official development assistance, over time, has contributed to sustainably strengthening civil society’s capacity to work for democracy and human rights...

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In 2014, Sweden became the first country in the world to declare a feminist foreign policy. The policy shall permeate the three policy areas encompassed by Swedish foreign policy – foreign and security policy, development cooperation,...

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HIV has been one of the major health issues to occur in the history of development cooperation. From a development effectiveness perspective, the HIV response is interesting because of the rapidly shifting landscape of knowledge and the...