Development Sweden #35. Sida’s Director General shows no regrets

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Finally, the Director General had time for an interview. Read it here along with more information on Sida report to the Government with the proposal as on who will take the risk when something goes wrong.

Also in Development  Sweden #35: Which are the CSO organisations that managed to pass on to Sidas third screening? We have the list.

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Sida’s Director General shows no regrets

It has been a turbulent six months for Sida. But despite the harsh criticism directed towards the agency's management for its handling of civil society, support to UNRWA and the internal reorganisation process, there is nothing that Sida's Director-General Jakob Granit regrets:
- I have not heard the criticism you mention elsewhere, he says.

In several articles this spring, we has scrutinised Sida's handling of support to civil society, UNRWA, and how the ongoing, very rapid internal change process at Sida has been handled. How does Jakob Granit view the criticism of his management style? Is it true that instructions have been issued that answers to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should be given verbally so that they cannot be traced? What actually happened when support to UNRWA was suspended­ –  and why did Jakob Granit choose to have a tax supported car when other Governmental ODA managers choose not to?

Excerpts from the interview. Listen to the full conversation in Global Podd (Swedish only).