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6.3.2025

Policy note

Norwegian aid management should be streamlined

How to organize Norwegian aid? Part 2 of 4.

4.11.2024

Policy note

Norway can, Norway should: Take the lead in halving premature death by 2050

Norway has played a leading international role in global health during the last 25 years, contributing to saving millions of lives. How should this work be continued? An expert committee, led by Camilla Stoltenberg, has released a report examining Norway's opportunities and challenges in global health up to 2050, providing recommendations to Norwegian policymakers.

2.5.2024

Executive Director Eirik Mofoss in NRK Debatten on Aid

Executive Director Eirik Mofoss meets Development Minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim (Sp), Hans Andreas Limi (FrP), and Kari Helene Partapuoli (Plan International Norway) in NRK Debatten on whether Norwegian aid is working well enough and whether it should be divided into two: poverty alleviation and global common goods.

Publikasjoner

6.3.2025

Policy note

Norwegian aid management should be streamlined

How to organize Norwegian aid? Part 2 of 4.

25.2.2025

Op-ed

Dear Minister of Development: -- The answer to USAID cuts should be increased support for IDA

Senior Adviser Cindy Robles writes this post as an open letter to our Minister of Development: “The World Bank accepts extraordinary contributions at any time, so I hereby challenge you: Will you strengthen the aid superhero through an extraordinary contribution to IDA?”

20.2.2025

Policy note

Leadership in crisis: a Nordic counter-reaction to Trump

With cuts to USAID, the world needs greater and more effective investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights.

14.2.2025

Input

Criticism must be based on facts to contribute to improvement

A former aid adviser criticizes both aid organizations, Norad and Long Term for defending themselves rather than providing answers. But without truthful stories, there is little to answer.

4.2.2025

Op-ed

Have we reached “peak aid”?

The United States and several European countries are turning their backs on the world. Is this the beginning of the end for aid as we know it?

3.2.2025

Op-ed

Aftenposten prevents an enlightened aid debate

Shutting down aid is as knowledgable as shutting down health care.

20.1.2025

Op-ed

More knowledge-based aid. What's the next step?

Tighter budgets and new crises make it even more important to have knowledge-based and cost-effective aid. Norway is already doing a lot to make this happen, but we have more to go on. A working group has presented a report with new recommendations.

15.1.2025

Policy note

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

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.

13.1.2025

Op-ed

An invisible environmental poison costs millions of lives

Lead in food and paint causes health damage to millions of children every year. Poor countries in particular have a long way to go.

Media coverage

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Media coverage

Executive Director Eirik Mofoss in NRK Debatten on Aid

First published:

NRK Debatten

2.5.2024

Reagerer på Eirik Mofoss’ oppgjør: – Bistand er politikk

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Morgenbladet

13.3.2024

Kirkens Nødhjelp og Care er kritiske til tidligere Norad-byråkrat Eirik Mofoss’ angrep på norsk bistandspolitikk. Men han får støtte fra Civita, som mener utviklingsministeren avviser en viktig debatt.

Handlingsregelen som kan redde norsk bistand

First published:

Morgenbladet

7.3.2024

Generalsekretæren i Redd Barna svarer på kritikken av norsk bistandspolitikk ytret av daglig leder Eirik Mofoss i et intervju i Morgenbladet 1.mars.

Aid

Publications

Norwegian aid management should be streamlined

Norway can, Norway should: Take the lead in halving premature death by 2050

Executive Director Eirik Mofoss in NRK Debatten on Aid

Publikasjoner

Norwegian aid management should be streamlined

Dear Minister of Development: -- The answer to USAID cuts should be increased support for IDA

Leadership in crisis: a Nordic counter-reaction to Trump

Criticism must be based on facts to contribute to improvement

Have we reached “peak aid”?

Aftenposten prevents an enlightened aid debate

More knowledge-based aid. What's the next step?

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

An invisible environmental poison costs millions of lives

Media coverage

Media coverage

Executive Director Eirik Mofoss in NRK Debatten on Aid

Reagerer på Eirik Mofoss’ oppgjør: – Bistand er politikk

Handlingsregelen som kan redde norsk bistand

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