Denmark

Country Profile

Throughout the last couple of years the Danish government has repeatedly announced that support for SRHR is a top priority for Danish development assistance. This is confirmed in the following documents:

• ‘Freedom from Poverty – Freedom to Change’, adopted by a small majority in parliament in 2010. The strategy has five overall priority areas of support for Danish ODA, one of which is Gender Equality, which includes SRHR and FP (mentioned as access to contraception). All five priority areas are operationalised in one-year Road Maps.

• ‘The Danish strategy on support to SRHR’, a sub-strategy launched by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006 and reviewed in 2010. The SRHR strategy is still guiding the Danish interventions on SRHR, but the Road Map provides the Operational Framework.

In October 2011, Denmark got a new centre-left government. The newly appointed Minister of Development Cooperation, Mr. Christian Friis Bach, has announced that the new government will launch a new Danish Strategy on Development Cooperation. So far, it is unclear when this will take place, and what will be the outcome.

Key Documents

• Road Map for the Implementation of the Strategy for Denmark’s Development Coorperation, Gender Equality (2011)
• Strategy for Denmarks Development Cooperation, ‘Freedom from Poverty – freedom to Change’ (2010)
• The Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Denmarks Strategy (2006)