Swedish Development Cooperation with South Africa

South Africa and Sweden jointly set the priorities for and share ownership of the cooperation. The aim of the cooperation with South Africa is to promote equitable and sustainable development, to help create opportunities for poor people to improve their lives.

Strategy for the full range of Swedish Cooperation with South Africa (2009-2013)

Bilateral development cooperation between Sweden and South Africa is governed by a country strategy. This strategy is based on South Africa’s guiding strategies and priorities. The current strategy is unique in that it is a coherence strategy and as such it covers the full range of Swedish cooperation with South Africa, of which development cooperation, in the form of selective cooperation is a part.  For the full strategy please see column to the right.

In response to economic and social development in South Africa, a new modality of cooperation – selective cooperation – has replaced conventional Swedish development assistance.

Selective Cooperation

Selective cooperation with South African shall promote equitable and sustainable global development  in accordance  with the goal of Sweden’s policy of global development. Priority shall be given to partner driven cooperation  with the goal to facilitate broader cooperation and hence strengthen the relations between our two countries. The purpose of partner driven cooperation is to support joint activities and projects aimed at achieving closer collaborations that have the potential of becoming self-supporting over time. Some thematic areas are prioritised such as; peace and security, democracy and good governance, gender equality and human rights, trade and economic cooperation, environment, climate and energy.
> Read more about Partner Driven Cooperation

In addition to partner driven cooperation, targeted interventions in the sphere of HIV/AIDS are to continue during the strategy period. The goal of these interventions is to strengthen and broaden national efforts to prevent the incidence and spread of HIV/AIDS.

> Read more about the work with HIV/AIDS

The strategy also highlights the importance of tripartite cooperation where Sweden and South Africa can jointly generate added value in a third country  or regional institution.

> Read more about tripartite cooperation

Case studies

Under the headline "Case studies" you will find examples of projects and programmes.
> Case studies

Read more about Swedish development cooperation on:
> www.sida.se