Norwegian development assistance - figures and main partner countries

Norwegian development assistance – figures and main partner countries

Norway is one of the five countries that allocate over 0.7 per cent of its annual gross national income (GNI) to official development assistance (ODA), and its aim is to increase this amount to 1 per cent.

In 2005 Norway’s official development assistance amounted to about NOK 17.9 billion (approx. EUR 2.23 billion), which is approximately 0.94 per cent of GNI. In 2004, this comprised approximately 47 per cent in purely bilateral assistance, 30 per cent in purely multilateral assistance, 17.7 per cent in earmarked assistance channelled through international organisations and programmes, and 5.3 per cent on administration.

Norway gives development assistance to a large number of countries. We have also selected seven main partner countries to which we provide broad-based, in-depth, long-term assistance. These countries are Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia in Africa, and Bangladesh and Nepal in Asia. In 2004 development assistance to these countries was as follows (in NOK thousands):

Other countries are recipients of large amounts of Norwegian development assistance as well, not least for humanitarian reasons. In 2004, Afghanistan received approximately NOK 456.4 million, Sudan NOK 385.4 million, and the Palestinian areas NOK 362,8 million.

Norwegian NGOs are important partners in our development co-operation. Well over NOK 2.5 billion (approx. EUR 250 million) of our ODA was administered by these organisations in 2004. These funds go to long-term development co-operation as well as humanitarian assistance.

By the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs