| Company type | Parastatal of the Government of Denmark |
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| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen,Denmark |
Key people | Lars Gert Lose Permanent State Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jesper Moller Sorensen State Secretary of Foreign Policy Lotte Machon State Secretary of Development Policy Steen Hommel State Secretary for Trade and Global Sustainability[1] |
| Products | Development finance, small and medium enterprise finance, export finance, import finance, foreign investment finance, development aid |
| Website | DANIDA |
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) is the brand used by theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark when it provideshumanitarian aid and development assistance to other countries, with focus ondeveloping countries. There is no distinct Danida organisation within the Ministry.
According to theOECD, Denmark’s totalofficial development assistance (ODA) (USD 2.9 billion) increased in 2022 due to in-donor refugee costs. It represented 0.7% ofgross national income (GNI). Most of Denmark’s official development assistance (ODA) is provided as bilateral co-operation, primarily to fragile partner countries in Africa.[2]
The organisation's name was originally DANAID. In Greek mythology, theDanaids were daughters ofDanaus who killed their husbands and were condemned to fill abathtub with water to wash away their sins. Because the buckets they were given to do this were actuallysieves, they worked for alleternity inTartarus without making any progress. For this reason, the aid agency's name was changed from DANAID to DANIDA at the last minute when this unfortunate connotation was discovered. The term Danida appeared in 1963.[3]
Denmark has been granting development assistance since the end of the Second World War. It is one of the five countries in the world that meets theUnited Nations' target of granting 0.7% ofgross national income (GNI) in development assistance. In 2011 Denmark disbursed roughly DKK:15.753 billion (US$2.98 billion) in development assistance to countries inAfrica,Asia,Latin America, theMiddle East, and Denmark'sEuropean Union neighbors.[4] Furthermore, DANIDA works in collaboration with many Danish NGOs such asGlobal Medical Aid.[5] According to theOECD, 2020 official development assistance from Denmark increased 0.5% to USD 2.6 billion.[6]
DANIDA focusses on four areas of interest:[7]
As of 2015, DANIDA was involved in a total of 73 countries and regions across the world, with 21 countries of high priority. Most of the priority countries are among the poorest of the world, located in Africa and Asia.[8][9]
The sectors receiving the largest amount of financial bilateral support is government and civil society, and humanitarian aid, at roughly 28% and 14% respectively.[10]
Most of the goals of DANIDA's projects gets fulfilled, with an annual success rate between 79% and 88% since 2005.[11]
Danish development assistance in the 1950s was nearly exclusively channeled through theUnited Nations. In 1962, Denmark established its first bilateral development assistance programme for developing countries under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2010, about 40% of Denmark’s bilateral assistance went to social sectors, includingeducation andhealth. Danida also works in collaboration with theUnited Nations, theWorld Bank,regional development banks and theEuropean Union.[12]
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