EBA-reports

2025:04

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Ingela Ternström, Inge Tvedten, Fredrik Uggla

The overall objective of Swedish development cooperation is to ‘create conditions for improved living conditions for people living in poverty and oppression’. Poverty has many dimensions and should therefore not be measured solely in...

2025:02

Climate and Environment

Mapping

Kathleen Klaus, Emma Elfversson

How does land ownership and climate change affect people's lives in Kenya? Land is a central element of economic prosperity and social power, and changes in land use can lead to conflicts, inequalities, and migration. Climate change,...

2025:01

Peace, Security and Conflict

Analysis, Analysis

Johan Brosché, Sebastian Raattamaa, Kate Lonergan

Analysis of armed conflicts often focus on the fighting parties and their behaviour. In this EBA report the authors argues that achieving sustainable peace requires an issue-based approach, emphasizing the core issues that parties fight...

2024:10

Democracy and Human Rights, Democracy and Human Rights, Economic Development

Owasim Akram, Mathilde Maîtrot, Joe Devine

Bangladesh has experienced significant economic development in recent years, but the prevalence of extreme poverty among minority groups remains high. This study examines how exclusion, discrimination, and structural barriers contribute to...

2024:09

Health and Social Protection

Jesper Sundewall, Malin Ahrne

Global health is an important area of Swedish development aid with many intersections with other policy areas such as climate, trade, migration, and research and innovation. This anthology brings together many different voices and...

2024:07

Climate and Environment

Evaluation

Annika Hilgert, Fiona Lambe, Flintull Annica Eriksson, Igor Shishlov, Luisa Weber, Max Schmidt, Númi Östlund, Per Strömberg

This report investigates the role of Swedish climate aid in achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement. The focus is on catalytic climate-change mitigation finance and the initiatives of three key institutions: the Swedish...

2024:06

Democracy and Human Rights

Mapping

Andy Carl, Anna Dziedzic, Cheryl Saunders, Samantha Smith

The global autocratization wave implies among other that rule-of-law is on the retreat globally, and the number of un-constitutional take-overs have increased. Constitutions are at the foundation of social contracts. However, they may also...

2024:05

Democracy and Human Rights

Evaluation

Marina Nistotskaya, Hayden Buker, Marcia Grimes, Anna Persson, Michelle D’Arcy, Bo Rothstein, Adea Gafuri

Corruption constitutes a serious barrier to sustainable development. During the last few years, Sida has strengthened its efforts to tackle corruption in partner countries. This report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the potential...

2024:04

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis, Evaluation

Cristoffer Lokatt, Pontus Hedlin

Transparency in Swedish international aid is crucial for ensuring its effectiveness and accountability. This report presents a comprehensive study of transparency in Swedish aid, with a particular focus on Sweden’s work with the...

2024:03

Climate and Environment

Analysis

Anna Nordén, Daniel Slunge, Niklas Harring

Climate investments and environmental reforms run a high risk of failure if acceptance is low. As African countries develop their climate action plans under the Paris Agreement, it is therefore important that governments, donors and other...

2024:02

Evaluation of Aid

Evaluation

Anouchka Baldin, Christoph Emminghaus, Johanna Schaefer-Kehnert, John Pokoo, Julian Klauke, Kou Meapeh Gbaintor-Johnson, Simon Wallisch, Tillman Hönig

The EBA-report The Long and Winding Road: Evaluation of Swedish Long-Term Development Cooperation with Liberia´’ evaluates the Swedish development cooperation with Liberia. It also summarises the most important lessons for future...

2024:01

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Charlotte Lattimer, Cheery Zahau, Dmytro Kondratenko, Gang Karume, Kateryna Korenkova, Sophia Swithern, Teddy Atim

Local and national actors are the first responders in humanitarian crises. They provide ongoing support, and they stay on when the international organisations leave. Yet they have been structurally marginalised by the international...

2023:03

Health and Social Protection

Review, Review

Hannah Kabelka, Josefine Olsson, Liana Petrosova, Noor Tromp, Pam Baatsen, Renée Robbers, Thyra de Jongh

The first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) appeared in the late 1970s and the disease rapidly developed into an international epidemic in the 1980s. Some countries in Africa have been particularly hard hit, with a large...

2023:02

Equality, Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis, Evaluation

Ann Towns, Elin Bjarnegård, Katarzyna Jezierska

During eight years, 2014–2022, Sweden pursued a feminist foreign policy (FFP). Sweden was the first country in the world to declare an FFP and also became the first country to retract one. Since 2014, FFP has spread internationally, and...

2023:04

Organisation and Management of Aid, Public Administration

Analysis

Helena Hede Skagerlind, Númi Östlund

The Government’s reporting of results of Swedish aid to the Riksdag is the only comprehensive assessment of the overall performance of Swedish aid. This is a study of the Government’s reporting based on the reporting requirements....

2023:01

Equality, Health and Social Protection

Evaluation

Jesper Sundewall, Björn Ekman, Jessy Schmit

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) has long been a priority in Swedish aid. Despite progress, many people in poorer countries lack access to SRHR, and the dependence on aid in the health sector is often considerable. What...

2022:08

Health and Social Protection

Analysis

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Ana Horigoshi, Alma Santillán Hernández, Ernesto Tiburcio

More than half of the world’s population has no access to social safety nets or social insurance. What is international development aid doing to address this? This study demonstrates that, while international aid has contributed to the...

2016:06

Organisation and Management of Aid

Mapping

The Expert Group for Aid Studies

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the financial governance of Swedish ODA at the national level. Many different stakeholders at various levels are involved in the decisionmaking process for Swedish aid including the...

2018:05

Organisation and Management of Aid

Mapping

The Expert Group for Aid Studies

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the financial governance of Swedish ODA at the national level. Many different stakeholders at various levels are involved in the decisionmaking process for Swedish aid including the...

2022:07

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Magnus Lundgren, Jonas Tallberg, Camilla Pedersen

After three years of negotiation a new long-term EU budget for (2021–2027) was agreed upon in 2021. The Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), which covers the EU’s development cooperation with...

2022:06

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Bereket Kebede, Leif Danielsson, Hailu Elias, Gunnar Köhlin

One of the most important partner countries for Swedish aid has historically been Ethiopia; the country became Sweden’s first bilateral development cooperation partner in 1954, while Swedish development financing to Ethiopia remains...

2022:03

Organisation and Management of Aid

Description of method, Review

Kim Forss, Númi Östlund

Aid must achieve results; it must contribute to positive change for people living in poverty and oppression. The question of how to achieve such change has followed Swedish aid since its inception in the 1960s. The answers have been many,...

2022:04

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Erik Lundsgaarde

This study explores the relationship between Sweden and the EU in the area of development cooperation. It focuses on programming at the partner country level, where the majority of development cooperation is programmed and implemented. The...

2022:01

Equality, Evaluation of Aid

Evaluation

Lisa Dellmuth, Paul T. Levin, Nicklas Svensson

A large part of Sweden’s foreign policy takes place within – and through – multilateral organisations, such as the UN, the EU or the various development banks. Sweden is also one of the largest donors to the multilateral system: the...

2022:02

Health and Social Protection, Organisation and Management of Aid

Mapping

Carsten Schwensen, Jonas Lövkrona, Louise Scheibel Smed

This report analyses how adjustments of Swedish aid were managed within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Sida during the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it contributes to knowledge on how development cooperation was impacted by the...

2022:05

Organisation and Management of Aid, Economic Development, Economic Development, Evaluation of Aid

Mapping, Mapping

Ivar Virgin, Alice Castensson, Filippa Ek, Ylva Ran

Agricultural development can strongly contribute to poverty reduction in low-income countries. Despite this, Swedish development aid to the agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors constitute a small share of total aid flows. During...

2022

Health and Social Protection, Migration

Mapping

Jason Gagnon, Mona Ahmed, Lisa Hjelm, Jens Hesemann

This paper provides the first overview of efforts by low- and middle-income countries to extend the coverage of national social protection systems to forcibly displaced persons within their borders. It presents a baseline of de jure...

2021:08

Peace, Security and Conflict

Evaluation

Gary Milante, Jannie Lilja, Jups Kluyskens, Johanna Lindström

Sweden has long been at the forefront of promoting international principles for engagement in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Particularly pertinent therefore is Sweden’s application of the ‘New Deal’ agreement over the last...

2021:07

Peace, Security and Conflict

Evaluation

Nicklas Svensson, Julian Brett, Adam Moe Fejerskov, Charlotte Bonnet

The Folke Bernadotte Academy (Swedish Agency for Peace, Security and Development) has become an important actor in Swedish development cooperation, in terms of both the volume of aid managed by the agency and its role in the implementation...

2021:06

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Cecilia Strand, Maria Grafström

Swedish development cooperation has for many years funded efforts to inform the broader Swedish public about development aid. Since 2010, Sida’s and Sida’s partners work in this area has been guided and financed under a specific...

2021:05

Democracy and Human Rights

Mapping

Antonio Spinelli, Peter Wolf, Sead Alihodžić, Therese Pearce Laanela

Watch the seminar with Therese Pearce Laanela, Sead Alihodžić, Thomas Carothers, Staffan Smedby, and moderator Helena Lindholm. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UwjTo5YwJqU As part of its democracy support, Sweden regularly assists...

2021:04

Equality, Health and Social Protection

Analysis

Anna Kågesten, Karin Båge, Jesper Sundewall, Helena Litorp, Bi Puranen, Olalekan Uthman, Anna Mia Ekström

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender are closely linked with cultural and societal values and norms. This EBA report aims to improve the understanding of norms and values that undermine – or support – SRHR, and...

2021:03

Evaluation of Aid

Description of method

Barbara Befani

This report presents an innovative methodology for conducting theory-based evaluations. It retains several of the advantages of both qualitative and quantitative methods. This report contains both an in-depth theoretical discussion of the...

2021:02

Evaluation of Aid

Evaluation

Markus Burman

The purpose of this study (also available in Swedish with the title Målbild och mekanism: Vad säger utvärderingar om svenska biståndsinsatsers måluppfyllelse?) is to examine what recent evaluations say – and can say – about...

2021:01

Evaluation of Aid

Description of method

Gustav Engström, Jonas Norén

This report examines the potential of using data science and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in development evaluations. It looks at how such methods can be used to produce reliable assessments of what past evaluations have concluded...

2020:07

Democracy and Human Rights

Evaluation

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Rachel M. Gisselquist, Ana Horigoshi, Melissa Samarin, Kunal Sen

https://www.youtube.com/embed/FHUALezAp8k Democracy aid is a key component of Swedish international development cooperation. The EBA report Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid explores the effects of aid on countries...

2020:06

Democracy and Human Rights, Equality

Analysis

Åsa Eldén, Dolores Calvo, Elin Bjarnegård, Silje Lundgren, Sofia Jonsson

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GU79ssaf-aM The abuse of power and position in exchange for sexual favours – sextortion – is both a form of corruption and of gender-based violence, which makes it difficult to address. How should the...

2020:05

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Janet Vähämäki, Susanna Alexius

Trust based management of public services could serve to achieve better results. To build trust is particularly difficult in the area of development cooperation: vast distances, unequal power relations and complex practices provide...

2020:04

Public Administration

Evaluation

Richard Allen, Giorgio Ferrari, Krenar Loshi, Númi Östlund, Dejana Razić Ilić

Every year around SEK 600 million of Swedish international development assistance is directed through Swedish government authorities (SGAs). This evaluation aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the long-term effects, sustainability...

2020:03

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Daniel Tarschys

Is management only a burden? The premise in much of the literature on development aid, and more specifically in the Swedish budgetary dialogue in this policy field, seems to be that administrative activities should be squeezed back as far...

2020:02

Climate and Environment

Evaluation

John Colvin, Mutizwa Mukute, Mehjabeen Abidi Habib, Jane Burt, Miriam Kugele, Jessica Wilson

In 2009, the Swedish Government launched the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), a four-year programme of investments in climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, targeting some of the poorest countries. The CCI amounted to SEK 4...

2017:05

Peace, Security and Conflict

Review

Joakim Öjendal, Hanna Leonardsson, Martin Lundqvist

Peacebuilding has grown to become a prominent global practice and research theme. Peacebuilding projects have been set up in (post-)conflict societies across the globe with the aim of securing sustainable peace. Yet such positive...

2017:12

Evaluation of Aid

Evaluation

Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys

This study aims to examine what evaluations can tell us about sustainability in Swedish aid projects. Sustainability, in this sense, refers to the viability and longevity of achievements financed by development aid once financing is...

2015:08

Democracy and Human Rights, Economic Development, Public Administration

Evaluation

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Sandra Atler

In recent years there has been an increased focus on the role of business and private sector activities in international development cooperation. Meanwhile, there are well documented challenges in implementing policy coherence to address...

2015:01

Democracy and Human Rights

Analysis

Richard Youngs

Sweden has a long tradition of providing development cooperation with the aim of strengthening democracy and respect for human rights. Sida-support for these purposes has increased in recent years, and accounts for more than 5 billion SEK...

2020:01

Economic Development

Mapping

Polly Meeks, Matthew Gouett, Samantha Attridge

The use of development finance to ‘catalyse’ private finance has become a growing trend in development cooperation. This study focus on one specialised form of development finance - Official Development Assistance (ODA) – and its...

2019:09

Democracy and Human Rights

Analysis

Göran Hydén, Marina Buch Kristensen

The purpose of this report is to examine why democratization in Africa is a special challenge and how democracy aid may be recast in a world where national sovereignty is on the rise and partners claim greater ownership of the external...

2019:08

Climate and Environment

Review

Goncalo Carneiro, Raphaelle Bisiaux, Mary Frances Davidson, Tumi Tómasson, Jonas Bjärnstedt

Despite several decades of aid to the fisheries sector and numerous evaluations, there are very few known efforts to analyse and document lessons learned across those interventions. This study is a systematic map and a thematic...

2019:07

Economic Development, Equality, Health and Social Protection

Review

Meagan Dooley, Abby Fried, Ruti Levtov, Kate Doyle, Jeni Klugman, Gary Barker

Social protection systems are highligthed in Agenda 2030 as an important tool to reduce poverty. Different forms of Social Safety Net programs (SSNs), like cash transfers, in-kind food aid or public work programs are rapidly becoming...

2019:06

Economic Development

Evaluation

Stephen Spratt, Eilis Lawlor, Kris Prasada Rao, Mira Berger

This report is the result of a request from the Nordic Development Fund’s (NDF) Board of Directors to the Evaluation Departments at the Nordic Development Cooperation Agencies for an independent input to strategic decisions on the future...

2019:05

Democracy and Human Rights

Review

Andrew Shepherd, Dhruva Mathur, Rachel Marcus

Poor people often belong to discriminated against groups. For a sustainable reduction of poverty, it is necessary to work against discrimination and disrespect of human rights. How effective are anti-discrimination measures undertaken by...

2019:July

Migration, Migration

Review

Robert E.B Lucas

The objectives of this research overview are twofold: To provide a succinct outline of what is and is not known about the links between migration and economic development in developing countries; and to inform aid agencies about the...

2019:04

Democracy and Human Rights, Economic Development

Evaluation

Ariel BenYishay, Brad Parks, Rachel Trichler, Christian Baehr, Daniel Aboagye, Punwath Prum

In 1996, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and other donors worked with the Cambodian government in an attempt to rebuild confidence in public institutions and improve economic welfare by strengthening local...

2019:03

Democracy and Human Rights

Evaluation

Henny Andersen, Joakim Öjendal, Karl-Anders Larsson

Since the 1990s, democracy and human rights have been an important objective in Swedish development cooperation. This study evaluates Sweden’s democracy assistance to Cambodia during the period 1997–2017. The study is based on...

2019:02

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Linnea Mills, Nilima Gulrajani

Development cooperation to fragile and vulnerable environments involves different types of risk. The study Fit for Fragility? An exploration of risk stakeholders and systems inside Sida provides an analysis of how Sida works with...

2019:01

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Karolina Windell, Maria Grafström

The aim of this report is to create an understanding of how decisionmakers within development cooperation deal with media surveillance, and what consequences their approach may have for risk-taking and decision making. This report...

2018:10

Economic Development

Evaluation

Claes Lindahl, Julie Lindahl, Mikael Söderbäck, Tamara Ivankovic

This study focuses on the theme of economic development over more than two decades of development cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report was presented during the seminar Swedish Aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina – the Case...

2018:09

Democracy and Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance

Analysis

Sophia Swithern

The UN-coordinated appeals represent the largest combined request for humanitarian aid, and a central pillar of the humanitarian response architecture. In 2017, these appeals set out a record total requirement of US$25.2 billion. This was...

2018:08

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Charlotte Örnemark, Fabian Scholtes, Niels Keijzer, Stephan Klingebiel

According to the Paris Declaration and the 2030 Agenda, ownership is a prerequisite for effective development cooperation. How can the principle of ownership be promoted in today’s complex development cooperation, in which the numbers of...

2018:07

Equality, Public Administration

Evaluation

Elin Bjarnegård, Fredrik Uggla

The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) commissioned an evaluation that followed Sida’s work over time through an ongoing research project. The report is a systematic follow-up which examines the plan for gender integration that has been...

2018:06

Democracy and Human Rights

Analysis

Åsa Eldén, Paul T. Levin

The notion of a shrinking space describes a global trend whereby activists’ and civil society organizations’ freedom to organize and operate is circumscribed by increasingly repressive and authoritarian governments. Turkey is often...

2018:04

Public Administration

Review

Geske Dijkstra

Budget support is an aid instrument that is not linked to projects and that is freely spendable by recipient governments. Budget support volumes have declined in recent years. This report examines the extent to which this reduced interest...

2018:03

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Númi Östlund

Sweden generally disburses development aid in SEK, while most partner countries, implementation organisations and recipients work in other currencies. This EBA report examines the effects of disbursing Swedish bilateral aid in Swedish...

2018:02

Humanitarian Assistance, Migration

Review

Alexander Kocks, Ruben Wedel, Hanne Roggemann, Helge Roxin

How to improve the linkages between emergency assistance and more long-term aid is a recurring question for actors operating in crisis situations around the world. In this EBA study researchers from the German Institute for Development...

2018:01

Economic Development

Evaluation

Stephen Spratt, Peter O'Flynn, Justin Flynn

Investments in companies to achieve developmental effects are becoming increasingly important in development cooperation. Swedfund, the Development Finance Institution of the Swedish state, has the task of investing in poor countries...

2017:11

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Nina Connelly, Stephen Browne, Thomas G Weiss

Assistance channelled through the United Nations should be seen in the context of the broader development landscape, which is undergoing constant change. Donor’s funding of UN Funds and Programmes has become increasingly earmarked over...

2017:10

Democracy and Human Rights, Public Administration

Analysis

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

The time has come for a full-fledged roadmap to evidence-based anti-corruption. Testing the toolkit of anti-corruption consultants, it is found that the few workable tools are functioning only in contexts where domestic agency exists....

2017:09

Evaluation of Aid

Description of method

Ann-Sofie Isaksson

Recent years have seen an increased focus on results in development cooperation, and a heated debate on the evaluation strategies and effectiveness of development policies. A rapid expansion in the availability of sub-nationally...

2017:08

Education and Research

Evaluation

Måns Fellesson

This study starts out from the fact that the main determinant of poverty in many low-income countries today is not a lack of natural resources or geographical marginality, but a lack of trained, specialised individuals who could generate...

2017:07

Education and Research

Analysis

David Nilsson, Sverker Sörlin

Research aid was institutionalised in the 1970s as part of Sweden’s growing ambitions on the international development aid scene. This ambition was driven by several motives, such as international solidarity but also economic and foreign...

2017:06

Evaluation of Aid

Analysis

Hilde Reinersten, Kristian Bjørkdahl, Desmond McNeill,

Learning is a key purpose of aid evaluation. So why do aid organisations not learn more from their own experiences? More specifically, why do they not learn more from their own evaluations? Yet learning is but one part of the...

2017:04

Organisation and Management of Aid

Other

Lars Anell

The aim to set aside one per cent of Sweden’s GNI for development cooperation, the one per cent target, is an expression of Sweden’s solidarity with the poorer parts of the world. It was agreed by the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament)...

2017:03

Health and Social Protection

Review

Jonathan Rushton, Arvid Uggla, Ulf Magnusson

Agricultural development is the basis for economic growth in lowincome countries, with animal production constituting a major component of their agricultural economies. Around 750 million livestock keepers in the world are living on less...

2017:02

Democracy and Human Rights, Equality

Review

Anna Mdee, Ella Page, Rachel Marcus

Discrimination on grounds of gender, against particular ethnic groups, on grounds of age, caste, disability or religion is a violation of human rights and an important factor contributing to the high rates of poverty among many...

2017:01

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Andrew Sheriff, Anna Knoll

Increasingly high numbers of refugees and migrants have come to Europe over the past five years seeking protection. Reception systems for migrants and asylum seekers have increasingly been under strain. To investigate the response of...

2016:11

Economic Development, Organisation and Management of Aid

Review

Per Molander

The present report discusses, on the basis of recent social-science literature, policies for global development and development cooperation from the perspective of a small, non-aligned country. The report is based on a review of...

2016:10

Economic Development, Public Administration

Evaluation

Mark McGillivray, David Carpenter, Oliver Morrissey, Julie Thaarup

Sweden’s official aid policy began in 1962. The Government Bill (1962:100) describes how the first steps were taken in the Swedish-Tanzanian aid relationship as early as 1961, when the Nordic Committee of Ministers for the coordination...

2016:09

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Stein-Erik Kruse

Several country studies have tried to measure and assess long-term aggregate impact of external support and end up presenting findings with weak empirical foundation. The learning for the donor – about how to improve its own aid...

2016:08

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Lisa Román, Måns Fellesson

The spirit of the Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is mirrored in the recently adopted Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sweden has a comparatively long tradition of PCD through its Swedish version, the Policy...

2016:07

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Cathy Shutt

International development cooperation wants to make a difference and for their work to have ‘results’ on the lives of poor or marginalised people. It was this motivation that led to the 2005 Paris Declaration’s focus on results....

2016:05

Evaluation of Aid

Description of method

Barbara Befani

In the search for new, more rigorous and more appropriate methods for development evaluation, one key task is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a broad range of different methods. This report makes a contribution in this sense...

2016:04

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Kristina Jönsson, Magdalena Bexell

In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all UN Member States. Attention now turns to realisation of the goals at national level. In light of their broad scope, a clear allocation...

2016:03

Education and Research

Review

Joel Samoff, Jane Leer, Michelle Reddy

Formal evaluations of aid to education have become more frequent, more systematic, and more important in subsequent policy and programmatic decisions. What do we learn from that increasing volume of evaluations? The objective of this...

2016:01

Education and Research

Review

Amy Damon, Paul Glewwe, Suzanne Wisniewski, Bixuan Sun

The study is a synthesis of high quality and rigorous evaluations in the field of education aid in order to direct the Swedish government’s education aid strategy toward investments that have been shown to result in positive impacts on...

2015:01

Business, Democracy and Human Rights

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Sandra Atler

Forskaren Rasmus Kløcker Larsen och MR-experten Sandra Atler har skrivit EBA-rapporten ”Business and Human Rights in Development Cooperation – has Sweden incorporated the UN Guiding Principles?. Rapporten innehåller en analys av hur...

2016:01

Public Administration

Analysis

Fredrik Söderbaum, Therese Brolin

Regional cooperation and integration in Africa has deepened and expanded considerably during the last two decades, partly as a result of intesified outside support and financing. Over time, Sweden has provided substantial support in to...

2015:09

Climate and Environment

Review

Ariana Salas, Daniel Ternald, Erin Sills, Eskil Mattsson, Gunnar Köhlin, Madelene Ostwald, Subhrendu Pattanayak

International development assistance is increasingly shaped by climate change concerns.  Climate interventions have become an increasingly important part of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), reaching 15 % of the total bilateral ODA,...

2015:07

Public Administration

Review

Bo Rothstein, Marcus Tannenberg

Institutional development and corruption have been a major concern in international development cooperation for decades. In the report, the authors address the question of why the development agenda has failed, and what donors should do to...

2015:05

Economic Development, Public Administration

Analysis

Matt Andrews

Many donors are working on Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms in developing countries, but these reforms are commonly limited. Observers suggest that the impact can be improved if reforms are designed and implemented in a more...

2015:06

Economic Development, Public Administration

Review

Ari Kokko, Hanna Norberg, Sara Johansson da Silva

Private investment to developing countries has surged since the 1990s with notable impacts on local economies and living standards. This increase the pressure to form new partnerships between private and public actors, so called "Joint...

2015:04

Economic Development, Education and Research

Review

Kjetil Bjorvatn

Young people in low income countries have realistically very minor options to get a job in the formal sector of the economy. Most will instead find themselves in the informal sector, with all the insecurity and low income that it implies....

2015:03

Organisation and Management of Aid

Evaluation

Rune Hagen

One of the major points on the so called Paris Agenda on aid effectiveness was the negative effects of aid dispersion – the fact there are too many donors funding too many activities in too many recipient countries. Sweden has undertaken...

2015:02

Evaluation of Aid

Mapping

Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys

An essential difference between international aid and other publicly financed activities is that development cooperation occurs abroad. Both learning and holding decision makers to account is complicated by geographical distance and the...

2014:05

Organisation and Management of Aid

Mapping

Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys

One way to define and understand official development assistance (ODA) is as a donor country's total costs for its work to achieve its aid policy goals The aim of this study is to chart out the part of Swedish development assistance...

2014:04

Organisation and Management of Aid

Analysis

Christopher Humphrey

A significant part of Swedish development assistance is channeled through multilateral development banks. One of these is the African Development Bank, AfDB. The Africa focus of Swedish development assistance makes the bank an important...

2014:03

Democracy and Human Rights

Mapping, Review

Lars G Svåsand

International party assistance (IPA) has become part of the international efforts to assist new democracies, andhence part of international democracy assistance. Well-functioning parties and party-systems are considered to perform...

2014:02

Health and Social Protection

Analysis

Gavin Yamey, Helen Saxenian, Robert Hecht, Jesper Sundewall, Dean Jamison

In 2013 the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) published Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation. The report laid out a series of opportunities for donors, low-income countries, and lower middle-income...

2014:01

Evaluation of Aid

Description of method

Anders Olofsgård

The report explores the role of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in evaluations of the impact of aid-financed activities. The first part looks at how RCTs have been used in research and practice to promote evidence-based development...