Minister of Development Assistance and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa (M) wants to reduce Sweden's long-term development assistance and instead direct the money towards life-saving humanitarian efforts. He says this in an interview with Ekot on Saturday.
The minister wants humanitarian aid for emergency operations, which currently amounts to 17 percent of the aid budget, to be doubled.
Then we would save tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives worldwide, he says.
Dousa describes the current aid as a sprinkler but wants it to be “clearer jets of water.” He is not worried about the negative consequences of a long-term reduction in development aid.
