The performance and outcome evaluation report offers a clear picture of how Sweden has contributed through efforts in different policy areas to equitable and sustainable global development since May 2006. Sweden’s efforts have contributed to equitable and sustainable development in numerous areas. A number of the activities and initiatives described in the report are ongoing processes of a long-term character undertaken by multilateral organisations. Thus the results – and the extent to which Sweden has contributed to them – are sometimes difficult to quantify and often cannot be directly linked to Sweden’s global development policy.
Moreover, the report points to a lack of focus and effective strategic control of activities in this area. It is difficult to determine what headway has been made in achieving greater coherence over time and how
different policy areas have interacted to strengthen coherence and Sweden’s overall contribution to equitable and sustainable global development. In the absence of proper goals and targets for policy implementation, it has not, for example, been possible to follow the way in which knowledge and awareness of the policy for global development has developed.
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and previous years, the Government concludes that policy implementation – and thus the results available for reporting – has been hampered partly by the large number of objectives (65) and partly by the fact that some of these lack relevance and/or are inadequate as policy instruments.
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Appendix - Key to abbreviations used in the text
AERC African Economic Research Consortium
ATT Arms Trade Treaty
AU African Union
ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific States
ASEM Asia-Europe Meeting
CAP Common Agricultural Policy (EU) CATW Coalition Against Trafficking in Women CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Discrimination against Women CODESRIA Council for the Development of Social
Science Research in Africa
CSD (UN) Commission on Sustainable Development
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility CSW Commission on the Status of Women DDI Diamond Development Inititative DDR Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (of former combatants) DfiD UK Department for International Development
DPKO (UN) Department for Peacekeeping Operations
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ECBI European Capacity Building Initiative ECDPM European Centre for Development
Policy Management
ECOSOC (UN) Economic and Social Council
EFA Education for All
EIDHR European Instrument for Democracy and
Human Rights
EPAl Economic Partnership Agreements
EU European Union
Europol European Police Office EWL European Women’s Lobby
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
of the UN
UN United Nations
FDI Foreign Direct Investment FTI Fast Track Initiative
GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Genfund Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Gender
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68 GDN Global Development Network
GFATM Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
GFMD Global Forum on Migration and Development
GOVNET (OECD DAD) Network on Governance
GPG Global Public Goods
GSP (EU) Generalised System of Preferences HBT (persons) homosexual, bisexual and transgender persons
HCFC Hydrochlorofluorocarbon HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries IAVI International Aids Vaccine Initiative ICPD (UN) International Conference on
Population and Development
IDEA International Institute for Democracy
and Electoral Assistance
IF Integrated Framework
IFFIm International Finance Facility for Immunisation
IGWG (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and
Intellectual Property
IHR (WHO) International Health Regulations IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development
ILO International Labour Organisation IMF International Monetary Fund
INSTEC Indo-Swedish Cooperation on Technical
Research and Education
IOM International Organisation for Migration IPEC International Programme on the
Elimination of Child Labour IPPC International Plant Protection Convention ISA Invest in Sweden Agency
ISAF International Security Assistance Force ITPGRFA International Treaty on Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture LDC Least Developed Country
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
NGO Non Governmental Organisation OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development
OECD/DAC OECD Development Assistance Committee
OHCHR (UN) Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights
OSCE Organisation for Security and
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69 PRS Protracted refugee situation
PRT Provincial Reconstruction Team REACH Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation
and Restriction of Chemical Substances RPP Regional pilot protection programme SAICM Strategic Approach to International
Chemicals Management
SALW (Action Programme on) Small and Light Weapons
SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome SCP Sustainable consumption and production
SI Swedish Institute
Sida Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency
SRHR Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
SSR Security Sector Reform
TRIPS (WTO Agreement on) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights UNCTAD United Nations Conference of Trade and Development
UNDEF UN Democracy Fund
UNDOC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNEP UN Environment Programme
UNFCCC UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UNHCR (Office of the) United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
VIF World Infection Fund
WAIPA World Association of Investment
Promotion Agencies
WASHA Work and Health in Southern Africa WHO World Health Organization
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WTO World Trade Organization
WUF World Urban Forum
YPARD Young Professionals Platform for Agricultural Research for Development
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Extract from the minutes of the Cabinet Meeting of 17
March
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Present: Prime Minister Reinfeldt, Ministers Olofsson, Ask, Leijonborg, Hägglund, Björklund, Carlsson, Malmström, Sabuni, Billström, and Björling.
Rapporteur: Minister Carlsson
The Government hereby adopts the Government Communication, Sweden’s Policy for Global Development
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