Open aid - transparent Swedish development cooperation
"Open aid" is the name of the next step in the reform of Sweden´s development cooperation. The step is being taken to better adapt development cooperation to today´s reality and the opportunities created by globalisation and technological development. The goal is to achieve as effective poverty reduction as possible. To achieve this goal, development cooperation must be opened up to transparency and ideas from others.
Opening up development cooperation builds on the need for greater transparency
- through active transparency to promote greater knowledge of, demand accountability in, and monitor Swedish development cooperation
- to promote fresh thinking and harness the knowledge that exists in different parts of society
- for increased cooperation and greater involvement of more actors in Swedish development policy
Five projects
Every aspect of "Open Aid" will be underpinned by transparency, participation and cooperation. Its implementation has been divided into five projects:
- A transparency guarantee
- Active anti-corruption
- Courage to speak out
- More actors and more knowledge
- Freedom, women and the Internet
