
Bård Vegar Solhjell
@bardvegar
Director General of NORAD. Working for Sustainable Development🌍 Former MP+ Min. of Education- and Environment. Author of four Non-fiction books. Chess-player
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Great meeting with Dr. Natalia Kanem /she/her/ella/ of UNFPA yesterday. They are an essential United Nations agency and key partner for Norad and Norway MFA Working for gender equality and #humanrights, providing #SRHR and Comprehensive Sexuality Education+ delivering humanitarian assistance around the world


Veldig glad for å fortelle: Stiftelsen Stiftelsen Fritt Ord Pris for 2024 tildeles krigs- og pressefotograf Harald Henden for modig og kompromissløs dokumentasjon av kriger, konflikter og naturkatastrofer i over tre tiår. frittord.no/nb/aktuelt/fri…

1% - også i 2023! Utenriksdepartementet Norway MFA Norad





Sterkt: Utdeling av Stiftelsen Fritt Ord sin pris til Harald Henden i Operaen i kveld. Ein pris til Henden, men også til det truverdige biletet som tek stilling frittord.no/nb/aktuelt/hve…


Great meeting with Ismahane Elouafi before the weekend. CGIAR is one of Norad most important knowledge partners, supporting research and development for food security across all continents Utenriksdepartementet


-Aid will need to adapt to the changed landscape for international co-operation & the growing importance of cross border issues," Spent a day with 20+ colleagues discussing the future of #ODA #SDG17 #FFD25 cgdev.org/blog/rethinkin… Article w @MasoodCGD Rémy Rioux on Future of Dev.


Vi feirar nytt partnerskap med 7 norske organisasjonar - #Plusspartnerskap - bygd på Anne Beathe Tvinnereim si tillitsreform for norsk bistand. Meir strategisk, meir fleksibelt og større effektivitet, med same gode risikohandtering Norad Norway MFA Bjørg Sandkjær


Moving to meet Ammal Awadallah of the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association. Words can hardly describe how hard it is to give birth, raise a toddler or get hold of contraceptives on #Gaza now. The war must end, humanitarian aid must be allowed in #Palestine


With Shameran Abed of BRAC - The World's largest south-based NGO. They go deep, and work community-based and knowledge-driven in Asian and African countries. An interesting partner for Norad and Norway MFA


In #Hanoi with Hilde Solbakken #Vietnam is a 100 mill people country with high and impressive growth + high coal-consumption, land use and plastic pollution. Utenriksdepartementet and Norad are assisting with the green transition, through projects on forests, waste management ao




I think this is the best and most interesting interview I have heard with a politician in ... ages. And she is now Deputy Prime Minister of the aunited Kingdom Angela Rayner podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/lea…



Leaving Beautiful #Hamburg! Industrial and medieval. Free and hanseatic. City Hall and the Chamber of Commerce symbolically adjacent to each other. Now also the venue of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference #HSC2025 Antón Leis Center for Global Development Bundesentwicklungsministerium UN Development Achim Steiner
