Søg
Home >
About Denmark >
Development Assistance
ABOUT DENMARK
ABOUT DENMARK
Denmark in brief
Danish Design & Architecture
Development Assistance
Map of Denmark
Religion
Government & Politics
Royal Denmark
History
Greenland & The Faroes
Print
Subscribe
Send
Development Assistance
Denmark’s development policy aims to contribute to reducing global poverty while helping people to take charge of their own lives. This is the overriding objective of Danida - the Danish International Development Agency.
Danida has responsibility for the planning, implementation and quality assurance of development cooperation. There are local and posted staff at Danish embassies and missions abroad who are responsible for the administration and management of development cooperation with the individual country.
Danida facts
■ Denmark grants an annual approximately DKK 15 billion in development assistance.
■ Denmark is one of five countries in the world to live up to the UN's recommendation to grant a minimum of 0.7 per cent GNI in development assistance.
■ Denmark has been granting development assistance since the end of the Second World War.
What does Danida mean?
■ Danida is the name of Denmark’s International Development Agency and is under the activity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
■ The term Danida first appeared in 1963. Danida has its own logo highlighting the fact that Danida is as an independent area of activity under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Bhutan - People now live 19 years longer
Burkina Faso - 900.000 people now have clean drinking water
Nepal - One million more young people have attended school up to the 10th form
