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policy and strategy
Since 2001 when the current government came into office, the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Danish International Development Agengy (DANIDA) has launched three development policy plans outlining the vision for political priorities and long-term economic frameworks for Danish development assistance. The current plan 'Security, Growth – Development' presents its development policy priorities and economic framework for the 2005-2009 period. Defining development policy as a key instrument of the Danish Government’s foreign policy and setting poverty reduction in developing countries as its main and central challenge, the plan points out at a number of new, concrete initiatives to further improve Danish development assistance: a better, more efficient poverty reduction, a new Danish African policy, a wider Middle East initiative, a strengthened environment profile and stronger global environment cooperation.
implementing organisations
Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish International Development Agengy is responsible for the definition and implementation of development cooperation. Since 2001, the Danish Government has worked consistently to reorient and reprioritise Denmark’s development assistance in order to carefully reflect current global development challenges. Moreover, in 2003 the administration of Danish development assistance to the programme countries has been decentralised. Accordingly, capacity has been transferred from Copenhagen to the missions in the Danish programme countries.
The Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights, DCISM, carries out research, analysis, and information activities in Denmark concerning international affairs, i.e. the fields of foreign, security, and development policy; conflict; holocaust; genocide and political mass murders; and human rights in Denmark and abroad. The Centre, established as of January 2003, consists of two independent institutes: the Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS, and the Danish Institute for Danish Human Rights, DIHR.
Research, analysis and related activities at DIIS are located within five research departments and an analysis unit: European Studies, Development Research, Globalisation and Governance Research, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Conflict and Security Studies and finally Cold War Studies.
In accordance with the strategy for Danish development assistance, Danish NGOs have to concentrate their efforts and to ensure the necessary coherence and efficiency of the programmes. To do so, 17 organisations working on development and relief issues cooperate in the Danish EU-NGO platform. Its aim is, on one side, to provide Danish NGOs with the relevant information on EU's development policy and, on the other side, to influence it via a constructive dialogue with Danida and the EU institutions. The platform is member of CONCORD.
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