Swedish official development assistance has experienced a renewed surge in outgoing aid flows. Following a peak in 2015 — largely attributed to heavy investments in the internal management of refugees in Sweden — the data shows that 2018, the last complete year, was a strong moment for Swedish aid, encompassing $5.8 billion across 4,461 individual disbursements.
Bilateral development cooperation agencies can face difficulties with partner diversification and shifting their funding toward local partners. To help, Devex Analytics explored recipient organizations’ data to look at underlying trends of the partner landscape for Swedish aid.
Since the last analysis on Swedish aid flows in the past decade, based on the Swedish information service Openaid.se, Devex has broken down generic categories, such as “donor country-based NGOs,” based on disbursement titles and descriptions, to provide a more accurate and in-depth analysis of the partner data.