22/02/2007 :: On 22 – 23 February, more than 45 states, UN bodies and agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Cluster Munitions Coalition, will come together in Oslo to discuss realistic and effective measures to for an international ban on cluster munitions that causes unacceptable human suffering. + More

25/09/2006 :: The UN has established that more than 50 per cent of the approximately 100 million children who do not attend school are affected by war and conflict. The Norwegian governments is contributing NOK 100 million (EUR 12 million) to Save the Children so that these children can also receive schooling. + More

03/01/2006 :: “Norway is contributing NOK 200 million to the new UN emergency relief fund, CERF, and is thus one of the first countries to make a contribution. We are doing this because the past year has shown that humanitarian crises call for an immediate response,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. + More

05/01/2005 :: The Government will propose to the Norwegian Parliament (the Storting) that an additional NOK 1 billion be granted for relief work following the tsunami disaster in South East Asia. + More

The Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation, or Norad, is a directorate under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2004 the Norwegian development co-operation administration was re-organised, and the responsibility for long-term ... + More