Danish International Development Assistance
Danish International Development Assistance : Danish development assistance is directed toward alleviating poverty by promoting economic growth and social development. Recent DANIDA policy is to increase aid quality by establishing long-term program cooperation with fewer (20-to-25) developing countries, by emphaiszing grants instead of loans, by strengthening the role of women in development, and by promoting respect for human rights and democractic values. About half of Danish aid is bilateral assistance intended to reach the least privileged in the poorest countries, about half the bilateral assistance is allocated to the countries classified by the UN as least developed countries. Most of the remaining aid is granted as multilateral assistance through international orgnizations -- the UN system, the regional development banks, the European Community, and as humanitarian assistance. Following a May 1991 restructuring of Danish aid administration, DANIDA has ceased to exist as an organization but is used to denote official Danish cooperation with developing countries. That reorganization established a South Group in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the locus of development assistance. South Group headquarters are in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark
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