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In wintertime Tromsø is the area with the highest probability of seeing the northern lights. This August weekend another kind of light lit the city at night-time.

Join us for a magical night trek for the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Tromsø, on Saturday 31th of August 2019.

In 2018, Norway gave NOK 34.6 billion in development aid. This is an increase of half a billion from 2017. A growing proportion is channelled through multilateral organisations.

Will provide new and useful knowledge about what works and does not work within important areas of Norwegian participation in international development cooperation.

Astonishingly 12.000 citizens of Oslo joined the World’s Most Beautiful Night Trek this weekend. Together with Mr. Nikolai Astrup, Minister of International Development, they defied the cold October night to shed a light on the Global Goals. 

The Governments of Norway and Burkina Faso, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be hosting two events - Beating the Drum: Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for Accelerating Progress Towards SDG3+, and the Global Financing Facility Replenishment on 5-6 November 2018.

Join us for a magical night trek for the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Oslo, on Saturday 27th of October 2018.

Norad launches new principles for support to civil society.

Norway provided NOK 34.1 billion in official development aid in 2017.

A new evaluation finds that the results-based management practised by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Norad fails to contribute to effective development assistance because the results information collected is not used to a sufficient extent.