Annual Report on Norwegian Bilateral Development Cooperation 2006

Norwegian development assistance in 2006 totalled NOK 18.9 billion.Of this, bilateral assistance (including multi-bilateral assistance) amounted to NOK 12.6 billion. In 2006, 114 countries received bilateral assistance from Norway. This assistance was channelled through national authorities, civil society organisations (Norwegian, local and regional) and multilateral institutions (earmarked contributions). These funds have been spent on long-term development cooperation, humanitarian aid, peace-building measures, cooperation on research, and cooperation with the private sector.

This report provides a detailed account of bilateral development cooperation between Norway and 25 of the countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East that received the most assistance in 2006. The report focuses on the results achieved in the priority areas for cooperation and general development trends in the countries concerned, and describes Norway's contribution in this context. None of the results that are described here are a consequence of Norwegian assistance alone. Norway's contribution is always only one of several that supplement the most important effort, that of the countries themselves.

Norad's first annual report on results was published in autumn 2007.In this report, information from reviews, evaluations and research reports will be collated and Norwegian development assistance will be placed in a wider context.