Our Partners
DANIDA - The promotion of sustainable development through poverty oriented economic growth is the fundamental challenge for Danish development cooperation. Improving all aspects of governance is vital to reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development for poor women, men and children. The quality of public sector management and administration is crucial to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, as public sector entities are responsible for delivering services such as health, education etc.
A key challenge for development cooperation is to support the efforts of partner countries towards improving the effectiveness and accountability of the public sector. Too often donors, including Denmark, have established parallel and unsustainable management systems in the sectors for which support is provided instead of improving existing management and administrative systems. In the area of public financial management Denmark has focused its involvement on procurement, accounting and financial reporting as well as on management control and internal auditing.
OECD DAC - The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD is a key forum of major bilateral donors and their development partners. The DAC members and their partners work together to increase the effectiveness of their common efforts to support sustainable development. The DAC concentrates on two key areas:
a) how international development co-operation contributes to the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global economy, and
b) the capacity of people to overcome poverty and participate fully in their societies.
OECD DAC Joint Venture for Procurement
The Joint Venture for Procurement is an international forum for procurement specialists representing multilateral institutions, bilateral development agencies and developing countries engaged in procurement reform. The PCDC contributes to the OECD DAC Joint Venture for Procurement in meeting its mandate to fulfill the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and its commitments to: strengthen national procurement systems; support capacity development, and use of local country systems.
DFID - The Department for International Development is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.
Why is the UK Government involved in development?
More than a billion people, one in five of the world's population, live in extreme poverty. This means they live on less than 65p a day. Ten million children die before their fifth birthday, most of them from preventable diseases. More than 113 million children do not go to school.
In a world of growing wealth, such levels of human suffering and wasted potential are not only morally wrong, they are also against our own interests. We are becoming much closer to people in faraway countries. We trade more and more with people around the world.
Many of the problems which affect us, such as war and conflict, international crime, refugees, the trade in illegal drugs and the spread of diseases like HIV and AIDS, are caused or made worse by poverty in developing countries. Getting rid of poverty will make for a better world for everybody.