Improving the efficiency of Norwegian aid through the UN and the World Bank

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In 2023, 31.7 billion Norwegian kroner (54% of Norway's aid budget) was allocated through multilateral organizations, with the UN system and the World Bank Group being the two main recipients. This note presents recommendations to the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Norad on how the foreign service can become a more effective and coordinated donor to Norway's largest partners. We focus on the UN system and the World Bank in this first note of the series.

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This is the first of four parts in a series of papers called “How to organize Norwegian aid?”

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10.10.25

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Survey on Norwegians' attitudes to aid

Langsikt has designed a survey on Norwegians' attitudes to aid, which was conducted by Ipsos on a representative sample of 1,069 Norwegians in the two weeks before the election in September 2025. Press the Download button to read the full report in which Ipsos summarizes the results.