{"id":2169,"date":"2018-01-16T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/?page_id=2169"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:41:59","slug":"danish-international-development-agency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/danish-international-development-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish International Development Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danish International Development Agency<\/b> (DANIDA<\/b>), is the brand which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark<\/a>, uses when it provides humanitarian aid<\/a> and development assistance to other countries, with focus on developing countries<\/a>. There is no distinct Danida organisation within the Ministry.<\/p>\n

Origin of name<\/span><\/h2>\n

The organisation’s name was originally DANAID. In Greek mythology, the Danaids<\/a> were daughters of Danaus<\/a> who killed their husbands and were condemned to fill a bathtub<\/a> with water to wash away their sins. Because the buckets they were given to do this were actually sieves<\/a>, they worked for all eternity<\/a> in Tartarus<\/a> without making any progress. For this reason, the aid agency’s name was changed from DANAID to DANIDA at the last minute when this unfortunate connotation was discovered. The term Danida appeared in 1963.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/span><\/h2>\n

Denmark<\/a> has been granting development assistance since the end of the Second World War. It is one of the five countries in the world that meets the United Nation<\/a>‘s target of granting 0.7% of gross national income<\/a> (GNI) in development assistance. In 2011 Denmark disbursed roughly DKK:15.753 billion (US$2.98 billion) in development assistance to countries in Africa<\/a>, Asia<\/a>, Latin America<\/a>, the Middle East<\/a>, and Denmark’s European Union<\/a> neighbors.\u00a0In 2009, DANIDA worked in close association with the Indian Government’s Padmasree award winner, K.Viswanathan<\/a>, and the prestigious institution Mitraniketan<\/a>. Furthermore, DANIDA works in collaboration with many Danish NGOs such as Global Medical Aid<\/a>.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Focus areas<\/span><\/h2>\n

DANIDA focusses on these four areas of interest:<\/p>\n