Development research in Sweden today

Key messages

• 48% of the respondents in research/academia have adjusted their research in response to the funding cuts. Respondents are reportedly shifting their research focus to topics more likely to attract funding and more relevant to the Global North.

• About two-thirds of respondents (65%) say their work was either discontinued or significantly altered as a result of the funding cuts.

• 93% of respondents believe that the impacts of the cuts for the Global South are negative – both in the short and long term.

• Still, 86% of the respondents have been able to sustain contacts with research partners in developing countries, while only 14% of respondents report that relations have not been maintained.

• Of the respondents working in development policy and practice, 55% say that their work has been negatively affected by the cuts in funding.