Netherlands Unveils Top Aid Priorities, Cuts for 2012. The Dutch government has unveiled its new development priorities for 2012 amid a €958 million ($1.3 billion) cut to its development cooperation budget. Despite the cut, which represents a 17.8 percent decrease from the 2011 budget, the Netherlands will still be spending a total of €4.34 billion for development cooperation in 2012. Saying that 2012 will be the year of “development policy modernization,” Dutch development minister Ben Knapen revealed the following four priority areas for which the Netherlands will be spending a total of €114 million more in 2012 than in 2011: Water: €181 millionFood security: €219 millionSecurity and the legal order: €385 millionSexual and reproductive health and rights, a major component of which is fighting HIV and AIDS: €335 million Aside from these priority themes, the Dutch government has announced it will not reduce the budgets for human rights and gender equality.
Read more: Ministry for Foreign Affairs draft budget 2012 - Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland: Ministry: Draft budgets. The 2012 draft budget for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs administrative branch comes to a total of 1,394.2 million euros. Ministry for Foreign Affairs draft budget 2012 Press release 205 /2011 (Ministry for Foreign Affairs /22 August 2011) Proposed operating expenses for 2012 total 211 million euros, including 4 million euros to strengthen the administration of development cooperation.
The proposal includes an increase of 21 FTEs to improve the impact and productivity of the administrative branch. This increase in person-years will be allocated to the management of immigration and to reinforce the administration of development cooperation. The proposed allocation for Finnish crisis management troops is 56.3 million euros, reflecting trends for the administrative branch as a whole. The sum proposed for cross-border cooperation is 13.5 million euros. Central government expenditure on development cooperation in 2012 is expected to come to 1,201 million euros, which is 0.59% of GNI.
Frequently asked questions on the Aid Budget 2012. The development cooperation budget corresponds to one per cent of estimated gross national income for 2012. This means SEK 35,8 billion. This includes for example costs from other parts of the central government budget that are classified as development assistance, such as the reception of asylum seekers, costs for Sweden's contributions to the portion of EU development aid that is financed from the regular EU budget as well as the regular budget of certain UN bodies to the sum of SEK 5,5 billion. The development cooperation part of the international development cooperation and reform cooperation in Eastern Europe totals SEK 30,3 billion.
What is the Government doing to strengthen efforts for democracy and respect for human rights within development cooperation? Democracy and increased respect for human rights are one of the Government's priority areas and the largest sector within Swedish bilateral development cooperation. Up What can be deducted from development assistance? Putting the new development policy into practice | MinBuZa. News article | September 20, 2011 ‘This will be the year of development policy modernisation,’ said development minister Ben Knapen about his 2012 budget. ‘Now that we’ve decided the amounts, the embassies in our 15 partner countries can set to work on our new development policy priorities.’ The new priorities are water, food security, security and the legal order, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR, with fighting HIV/AIDS as a major component).
These are all issues that the Netherlands, its business community and its knowledge institutions are good at and on which they have added value to offer. In 2012 the government will also invest €200 million in schemes to use Dutch business and academic expertise to foster economic growth, for example by enhancing food production in developing countries. ‘We will be making joint, targeted investments in developing countries in economic development, security, stability and the legal order,’ said Mr Knapen. DAC members' web sites. Redelaldía. Society for International Development - SID. ReliefWeb » Communities of Practice. League for Pastoral Peoples.
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