This week, the Expert Group for aid studies publishes a report on the future role of Swedish health aid. The report summarizes main finding from recent international work and elaborates on the implications for countries currently receiving...
Sweden has repeatedly been criticized for spreading its bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) thinly. For example, the OECD’s recent peer review of Sweden’s development assistance concluded that “In the absence of clear...
Good quality aid statistics are essential in order understand how, when, where and for which reasons aid is provided, and in order to properly evaluate the effects of aid. How reliable are the data currently available? In a new EBA working...
A voice for knowledge and decency has fallen silent. During Hans’ three years as a member of EBA, we learnt to know him as a devoted and fearless defender of humanitarian principles and knowledge based decisions; a person with a warm...
Mahmoud Fathalia, tidigare president i the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FIGO) genom Susanne Sjöström.
Med EBA:s rapportserie Development Dissertation Briefs (DDB) ges nyligen disputerade doktorer...
EBA arranged a session on evaluation methods on October 19th, 2017, at the biannual conference of the Swedish Evaluation Society. Under the steer of Kim Forss, member of EBA, three authors presented their own take and discussed that of the...
We are living in an era where civil liberties are increasingly under threat. How does this trend affect forms and content of Swedish international development cooperation?
The EBA hereby invites proposals for an evaluation of the long-term Development cooperation between Ethiopia and Sweden.
More information here. Deadline August 9th 2019.
The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) is a government committee...
The EBA hereby invites proposals for a statistical study of the effects from Swedish and international democracy support. Deadline September 11, 2019. More information here.
The study will systematically evaluate the effects of...
Watch this popular webinar at any time convenient for you. 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.
Our annual report is based on the studies that we have published during the last year. You can easily download it. Over arching themes in The EBA Aid Review this year are: Democracy, Risk, Corruption and mediatisation, Aid for sustainability and Anti-discrimination and gender equality.
A new EBA-evaluation concludes, among other things, that Swedish government authorities contributed to sustainable results in terms of improving the capacity of their partner agencies in the Western Balkans – particularly in relation to...
A lot of people watched the seminar on trust in interorganizational aid relations.
If you missed it, you can watch it here:
https://youtu.be/UG9ruC5Y1VI
If you want to read the report, you can do it...
PRESS RELEASE 20201209 New study: Democracy aid has an impact
Does development cooperation aimed at strengthening democracy work? A new study from the Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) addresses critical knowledge gaps on aid...
EBA has produced a new short film presenting our evaluation, "Effects of Swedish and International Democracy Aid." This evaluation explores the effects of aid on countries' level of democracy and under what conditions it might work better. We hope you enjoy it!