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For an overview of
Denmark's Official
Development Assistance, please click here.
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The Danish Development Agency
(Danida) is based in the Danish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Denmark is providing development assistance in bilateral and
multilateral cooperation. Partner organizations of
multilateral development assistance are the development banks,
especially the World Bank, the European Union, the United
Nations, namely UNDP, UNAids; UNICEF, WFP, ILO, UNIDO, UNESCO.[1] |
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There are 15 priority countries
of Denmark's bilateral assistance, divided in three groups of
support:
- large assistance programs in six countries, assistance
of more than DKK[2] 200
million annually in their country frame: United Republic
of Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Ghana, Bangladesh, Viet
Nam;
- annual programs in seven countries, DKK 150-175 million
per country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Egypt, Nepal,
Nicaragua, Bolivia;
- limited country programs in two countries: Kenya (DKK 70
million) and Bhutan (DKK 65 million).
Support to selected other countries is being provided
concerning the following issues: poverty reduction, women in
development, democracy and human rights, conflict prevention,
support to the participation of developing countries in the
international fight against terrorism, environmental issues:
Afghanistan, Palestinian Authority, Niger, South Africa, India
(assistance will be phased out).
Environmental assistance is provided to Malaysia, Thailand,
Cambodia, Namibia, Botswana (decreasing amount of assistance).[3] |
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Danida's main focus lies on
poverty reduction. This goal is intended to be achieved by the
support to the following fields: sustainable development
through poverty-oriented economic growth; education; health;
infrastructure; development of a private sector as an engine
for growth and the framework conditions for its activities;
women's participation in the development process;
environmental issues; health, especially HIV/AIDS, fair trade
policy, humanitarian assistance.[4] |
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Danida has defined the following
six priority sectors: water and sanitation, private sector
development, education, health, agriculture and rural roads. |
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Danida uses the term
"Sector Programme Support".
Denmark has defined a maximal involvement in three sectors for
each program country.[5]
The Danish sectoral approach emphasizes the partner country's
central government as well as all other participation levels
including actors of the private sector and civil society as
owners of a program. Assistance is applicable to all levels
between policy making/ strategy planning and programme
implementation ("Guidelines for Sector Programme
Support", May 1998 (revised), that are currently being
revised again).
Danida favours of general budget support.
The agency names the following factors as preconditions: past
aid performances, macroeconomic conditions, adequate financial
management abilities by the recipient country. The
disbursement will be ended if program performance fails or the
issues democracy and human rights are neglected.
Danida names the following conditions attached to development
assistance: responsibility for development process in the
hands of the partner government; good governance in terms of
an efficient, poverty-oriented national strategy; plans and
procedures in development cooperation should reflect human
rights and democracy.[6]
The following connection between assistance policy and Danish
refugee policy is described:
"Countries receiving
Danish assistance must live up to their international
obligation to readmit their own citizens whose applications
for asylum in Denmark have been rejected. […] Denmark can
assist countries that have taken in large groups of
refugees. […] During the EU Presidency, Denmark will work
to create greater understanding of the importance of a
strategy to assist neighbouring countries to help countries
in conflict."[7]
The Project Approach is
considered of minor relevance since the decision for Sector
Program Support. Nevertheless projects will be held up in the
sectors and thematic areas, e.g. gender, democracy, civic
participation, good governance, protection of human rights,
etc.
Furthermore projects are supported under the Danish
Transitional Assistance, regional assistance, research
assistance, and small grants under control of each embassy.
A planned project need to be set in the frame of the Sector
Programme Support concept. A project is bound to a period of
ten to 15 years under Sector Programme Support, funds are
allocated in intervals of three to four years. |
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In 2001 Danida drafted a new
policy on skills development to replace the 1994 policy. Two
important changes have been worked out:
- Expression "Skills Development" instead of
"Vocational Education and Training/ VET": This
wider term makes Skills Development fit not only in a
sector called VET, but also in related sectors. This makes
it possible to support it in a context of various fields.
- Linkage of the policy to the new overall development
strategy "Partnership 2000": Recognition of
Skills Development of contributing to poverty reduction
and the Danish cross-cutting policy concerns (environment,
gender, human rights, good governance, democratisation/
participation).
Since 1994 the Danish support to VET is characterized by a
change of geographical concentration of aid: the emphasis for
the creation of new projects was laid on Africa instead of
Asia. With the move to sector program support less projects
were funded, but these projects more extensively.
Danish assistance to VET from 1990 to 2001 amounted to DKK 1.3
billion which was about 2.1% of total Danish bilateral
assistance. This sum was allocated in 23 countries dominantly
in Asia and Africa.[8]
Concerning TVET and other fields Danida is concentrating its
program support on systems reform and institutional
development.
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Danida provides technical
assistance in form of technical advisors, consultant services,
the multilateral Junior Professional Officer Programme. The
latter is question to adjustment in the current revision of
development assistance.[9]
The proportion of technical assistance in relation to the
total Official Development Assistance is low (6% in 1996, 5%
in 1999). New technical assistance guidelines have been
developed in 2001.
In 2001, the number of Danish long-term advisors in the field
increased. The percentage of non-Danish technical assistance
personnel lies between 30 and 40. |
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Denmark encourages the
assistance through NGOs.
Support to the development work of Danish NGOs was reduced by 9.5% in 2002, after it had been increased by 70% from 1996
to 2001.[10] |
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Danida works with governments
and -regarding TVET- public sector training centres. In
response to SWAps, Denmark is currently considering to shift
the decision-making authorities to the embassy level. The
embassies are already responsible for program implementation
and monitoring.
The following policy guidelines and submission information are
of interest:
- Guidelines for Sector Programme Support, May 1998
(revised), currently being revised, include:
- information about a National Sector Framework (NSF)
that Danida asks the partner government for in order
to start a sector programme;
- a detailed description of the Sector Programme
Support process and the role of the stakeholders
(institutions, organizations, donors, NGOs, private
enterprises, other stakeholders, target groups).
- Logical
Framework Approach (LFA) [PDF - 319 KB], project
planning guidelines favoured by Danida (see the Submission
Procedures section for information on LFA).
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- New overall development
strategy "Partnership 2000", replacing the
strategy document "A Developing World", 1994
(outlines Danida's poverty reduction strategy);
- Guidelines for Sector Programme Support[11],
May 1998 (revised), is currently being revised;
- 2001 draft on Skills Development, intended to replace
the 1994 policy (first-mentioned document in this
section).
Evaluations
- http://www.um.dk >
English > Development Policy > Danish Development
Policy > Evaluations.
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| Name |
Danish
Development Agency (Danida) |
| Street
Address |
Royal
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asiatisk Plads 2
1448 Copenhagen K |
| Phone |
[+45] 33 92 00 00 |
| Fax |
[+45] 32
54 05 33 |
| E-Mail |
um@um.dk
(ministry) |
| Website
(languages) |
http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy
Main language Danish, information also available in
English, French, German, Spanish |
| Telegram |
Etrangères |
| Telex |
31292
etr dk |
| Office hours
(local time) |
Monday through Wednesday
from 9 to 16, Thursday and Friday from 9 to 17 Telephone
and telefax monitored 24 hours a day |
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| [1] |
http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Policy > Multilateral Development
Assistance Please find information concerning Danida's
budget here: http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Policy > Statistics. |
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| [2] |
Denmark
Kroner (DKK): Rate of 11 June 2003: 100 Denmark Kroner =
15.7298 United States Dollars. |
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| [3] |
http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Policy > Bilateral assistance |
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| [4] |
http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Polic
http://www.um.dk >
English > Development Policy > Danish Development
Policy > Multilateral Development Assistance |
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| [5] |
http://www.um.dk/english/dp
(English) > Deutsch/ Español/ Français >
Danish development policy |
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| [6] |
Hasegawa,
Yusuke, "Trends in Aid by Major Aid Agencies
(Summary), Unofficial Translation, 2002, http://www.minbuza.nl
> Development Cooperation > Sectoral Approach >
Further reading > Resources > Trends in Aid by
Major Aid Agencies, access: 01 March 2003, pp. 49-54. |
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| [7] |
Danish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Policy, access: 04 June 2003. |
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| [8] |
Danish
Minstry of Foreign Affairs, Evaluation. Danish
Assistance to Vocational Education and Training, Aarhus
2002 (COWI), pp. 9 24. |
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| [9] |
http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Policy > Other forms of assistance and
activities. |
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| [10] |
http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Danish
Development Policy > Other forms of assistance and
activities. |
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| [11] |
You
find this document through the site map of the
"Extranet on Program-based Approaches by the
Canadian International Development Agency". A free
registration is needed: http://remote4.acdi-cida.gc.ca/extranet/ExtranetHome.nsf/vluaboutdoc/SWAPSEn?OpenDocument. |
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Information regarding Danida
chapter taken from the following sources:
- Danish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs' website: http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy;
- Danish Minstry of Foreign
Affairs, Evaluation. Danish Assistance to Vocational
Education and Training, Aarhus 2002 (COWI);
- Hasegawa, Yusuke,
"Trends in Aid by Major Aid Agencies (Summary),
Unofficial Translation, 2002, http://www.minbuza.nl
> Development Cooperation > Sectoral Approach >
Further reading > Resources > Trends in Aid by Major
Aid Agencies, access: 01 March 2003;
- Riddell, Abby,
"Synthesis Report on Development Agency Policies and
Perspectives on Programme-Based Approaches", prepared
for the Forum on Accountability and Risk Management under
Program-Based Approaches, organized by the Learning
Network on Program-Based Approaches, Ottawa, Canada 2002,
2002, draft, http://www.minbuza.nl
> Development Cooperation > Sectoral Approach >
Further reading > Resources >Synthesis Report on
Development Agency Policies and Perspectives on
Programme-Based Approaches; access: 1 March 2003
Danida contact information
taken from http://www.um.dk
> English > Development Policy > Contact. |
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