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 by 2005.

In 2004 Norway’s official development assistance amounts to about NOK 15 billion (approx. EUR 1,9 billion), which is approximately 0.94 per cent of GNI. Of this, about 50,1 per cent is purely bilateral assistance, 28,3 per cent is purely multilateral assistance, 16,7 per cent is earmarked assistance channelled through international organisations and programmes, and 4.9 per cent is being spent 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 2003 development assistance to these countries was as follows (in NOK millions):

Norwegian NGOs are important partners in our development co-operation. Well over NOK 2 billion (approx. EUR 250 million) of our ODA is administered by these organisations every year. These funds go to both long-term development co-operation and humanitarian assistance.

By the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs