The grants are funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
Out of 260 projects given grants, 3 are with Bangladesh, 24 with India, 2 with Nepal, 2 with Pakistan, and 4 with Sri Lanka. > See SASNET's specific list with the South Asia related projects among all the Linnaeus Palme projects - http://www.sasnet.lu.se/palmbevi09.html
> Go for the full list of Linnaeus Palme grants 2009 (as a pdf-file) - http://www.sasnet.lu.se/linnpalm09.pdf