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AUSTRALIA: AusAid
AUSTRIA: Foreign Ministry
AUSTRIA: Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
BELGIUM: Development Cooperation (DGDC)
BELGIUM: Technical Cooperation (BTC)
CANADA: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
DENMARK: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: DG Development
FINLAND: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
FRANCE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
FRANCE: Le Groupe de l'Agence française de Développement (AfD)
GERMANY: BMZ
GERMANY: GTZ
GERMANY: KfW
GREECE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
IRELAND: Irish Aid
ITALY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
JAPAN: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
JAPAN: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
JAPAN: Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
LUXEMBOURG: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
LUXEMBOURG: Lux-Development
NETHERLANDS: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
NEW ZEALAND: NZAid
NORWAY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
NORWAY: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
PORTUGAL: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
PORTUGAL: Portuguese Institute for Development Support
SPAIN: Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI)
SWEDEN: Sida
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
SWITZERLAND: State Secretariat for Economich Affairs (SECO)
UNITED KINGDOM: Department for International Development (DFID)
UNITED STATES: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
UNITED STATES: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
AUSTRALIA: AusAid
AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development, is responsible for the management of the official Australian Government overseas aid program. We are an administratively autonomous agency within the Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio. AusAID reports directly to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on all aspects of aid policy and operations.
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AUSTRALIA: AusAid
AUSTRIA: Foreign Ministry
The Austrian Development Cooperation is part of Austria's foreign policy and the development policy of the European Union, which is aimed at securing global peace in concert with other industrial and development countries.
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AUSTRIA: Foreign Ministry
AUSTRIA: Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
ADA is the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation and Cooperation with Eastern Europe (ADC). The ADA is responsible for the implementation of all bilateral programmes and projects in the ADC partner countries and administrates the corresponding budget.
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AUSTRIA: Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
BELGIUM: Development Cooperation (DGDC)
Direct bilateral cooperation is cooperation that is organised between the governments of two countries. The Belgian government, as represented by the DGDC, establishes the general framework for the activities in collaboration with the partner country. This encompasses projects, training programmes, technical assistance, financial cooperation and debt reduction.
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BELGIUM: Development Cooperation
BELGIUM: Technical Cooperation (BTC)
Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) is an implementing agency which carries out development projects in cooperation with partners in developing nations on behalf of the Belgian government and other donors.
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BELGIUM: BTC
CANADA: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) supports sustainable development activities in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world.
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CANADA: CIDA
DENMARK: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Development Policy section includes Danish Development Policy, Bilateral Development Assistance, Multilateral Development Assistance, other forms of assistance and activities, Statistics, Evaluations and Publications.
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DENMARK: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: DG Development
Includes News, the EU Development Policy, Publications, Operational Sectors and Activities, a link to the Development Directorate-General, and more...
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION: DG Development
FINLAND: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Development policy refers to coherent activity in all sectors of international cooperation and national policy that have an impact on the status of developing countries.
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FINLAND: Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Development Policy
FRANCE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
FRANCE diplomatie.
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FRANCE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs - FRANCE diplomatie
FRANCE: Le Groupe de l'Agence française de Développement (AfD)
The AfD is a Group comprised of the following entities : The AfD, Proparco, the CEFEB, as well as 14 subsidiaries (banking, financial, real estate) operating in the overseas departments, territories and entities.
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FRANCE: Le Groupe de l'Agence française de Développement
GERMANY: BMZ
The development policy of the Federal Republic of Germany is an independent area of German foreign policy. It is formulated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, BMZ) and carried out by the implementing organisations.
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GERMANY: BMZ
GERMANY: GTZ
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH has been operating as a service company in international development cooperation since 1975. The primary goal of GTZ's work is to improve the living and working conditions of people in the partner countries and sustain the natural basis for life.
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GERMANY: GTZ
GERMANY: KfW
Development Cooperation: Under the Financial Cooperation between the Federal Republic of Germany and developing countries KfW, on behalf of the German government, finances investments and project-related consultancy services to expand social, economic and industrial infrastructure and to protect the environment and natural resources. KfW appraises the eligibility of projects for financing according to development-policy criteria, assists the partner countries in implementing them, and evaluates their success after they are completed.
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GERMANY: KfW
GREECE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The MFA is responsible for the Hellenic Republic Development Cooperation programme.
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GREECE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
IRELAND: Irish Aid
Irish Aid is the Government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries. Development cooperation is at the heart of Ireland’s wider foreign policy.
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IRELAND: Irish Aid
ITALY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The MFA is responsible for the Italian Development Cooperation programme.
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ITALY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
JAPAN: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
MOFA is responsible for Japan's Official Development Assistance programs.
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JAPAN: MOFA
JAPAN: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
JICA is responsible for the technical cooperation aspect of Japan's ODA programs. Technical cooperation is aimed at the transfer of technology and knowledge that can serve the socioeconomic development of the developing countries. JICA carries out a variety of programs to support the nation building of developing countries through such technical cooperation.
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JAPAN: JICA
JAPAN: Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
The purpose of JBIC is to contribute to the sound development of Japan and the international economy and community through undertaking lending and other financial operations: for the promotion of Japanese exports, imports or Japanese economic activities overseas; for the stability of international financial order; and for economic and social development or economic stability in developing areas; in accordance with the principle that it shall not compete with commercial financial institutions.
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JPAN: JBIC
LUXEMBOURG: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Development Co-operation Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs represents Luxembourg in the DAC and its subsidiary bodies.
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LUXEMBOURG: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
LUXEMBOURG: Lux-Development
Lux-Developemnt is the development co-operation agent for almost all the bilateral projects financed by the government of Luxembourg, and for Luxembourg's emergency relief work.
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LUXEMBOURG: Lux-Development
NETHERLANDS: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The MFA is responsible for the Dutch Development Cooperation programme.
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NETHERLANDS: DGIS
NEW ZEALAND: NZAid
The underlying purpose of New Zealand's aid programme is to contribute to peace, security and development in an increasingly interdependent global economy from which some countries do not benefit fully.
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NEW ZEALAND: NZAID
NORWAY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The MFA is responsible for the Norwegian International Development programme.
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NORWAY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
NORWAY: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
NORAD's purpose is to assist developing countries in their efforts to achieve lasting improvements in political, economic and social conditions for the entire population within the limits imposed by the natural environment and the natural resource base.
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NORWAY: NORAD
PORTUGAL: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The MFA is responsible of the Portuguese Cooperation for Development programme.
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PORTUGAL: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
PORTUGAL: Portuguese Institute for Development Support
O Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD) é o órgão central da coordenação da política de cooperação portuguesa assegurando, enquanto tal, a programação, o controle de execução e a avaliação dos resultados da cooperação para o desenvolvimento, como vertente integrada da política externa do Estado Português. Compete-lhe ainda a preparação técnica dos documentos que balizam a cooperação portuguesa, os programas indicativos nacionais e programas integrados anuais, bem como os respectivos relatórios de execução. O Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento é pessoa colectiva pública, sob tutela do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros.
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PORTUGAL: Portuguese Institute for Development Support
SPAIN: Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI)
Está adscrita al Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores a través de la Secretaría de Estado para la Cooperación Internacional y para Iberoamérica (SECIPI). Es el Organismo técnico responsable del diseño, la ejecución y la gestión de los proyectos y programas de cooperación, ya sea directamente, con sus propios recursos, o bien mediante la colaboración (convenios, acuerdos) con otras entidades nacionales e internacionales y organizaciones no gubernamentales.
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SPAIN: AECI
SWEDEN: Sida
Sida is the Swedish government agency dealing with bilateral international development cooperation and the major part of the cooperation with Central an Eastern Europe. Sida's task is to create conditions conducive to change and to socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development.
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SWEDEN: Sida
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is responsible for the following four areas of activities: bilateral development cooperation, multilateral development co-operation, humanitarian aid and technical cooperation with Eastern Europe.
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SWITZERLAND: SDC
SWITZERLAND: State Secretariat for Economich Affairs (SECO)
The Economic Development Cooperation division of SECO is the Swiss government's competence centre for sustainable economic development and the integration of developing and transition countries into the global economy. Its primary objective is the reduction of poverty. Its main activities are in the fields of macro-economic support, investment promotion, trade and environmental technology cooperation, development of basic infrastructure, and cooperation with multilateral development banks.
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SWITZERLAND: SECO
UNITED KINGDOM: Department for International Development (DFID)
DFID is the British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. The government elected in May 1997 increased its commitment to development by strengthening the department (formerly the Overseas Development Administration) and increasing its budget.
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UNITED KINGDOM: DFID
UNITED STATES: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. The agency works in six principal areas crucial to achieving both sustainable development and advancing U.S. foreign policy objectives: 1. Economic growth and agricultural development; 2. Population, health and nutrition; 3. Environment; 4. Democracy and governance; 5. Education and training; 6. Humanitarian assistance.
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UNITED STATES: USAID
UNITED STATES: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a U.S. Government corporation whose mission is to provide assistance that will support economic growth and poverty reduction in selected developing countries that demonstrate a commitment to just and democratic governance, economic freedom, and investments in their citizenry.
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UNITED STATES: Millennium Challenge Corporation

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