DENMARK’S MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION TOWARDS 2015

In the autumn of 2007, the Danish government initiated a review of the Danish multilateral devel-opment cooperation.

In the booklet “Denmark's Multilateral Development Cooperation Towards 2015 the result is pre-sented in the form of new principles for Denmark's multilateral development engagement.

In the concrete allocation of the Danish development assistance, focus must continuously be on where the funds will benefit the most. It is also a key issue to find out how Danish development assistance can help to strengthen the international development cooperation by encouraging de-cisive reforms in the multilateral architecture of development cooperation.

Denmark will continue its active multilateral development engagement with Danish assistance focusing on fewer organisations in order to achieve greater influence on the policy making and development of selected organisations.

The Government will ensure that Denmark's multilateral development engagement contributes effectively to the development of a transparent and rule-based agenda for development assistance which contributes effectively to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Multilateral organisations must continue to become better at cooperating with recipient countries and bilateral donors on poverty reduction. And the multilateral organisations have a special role in providing global public goods, including conflict management, post-conflict assistance, food security, and resolving humanitarian crises and environment and climate problems.