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In January 2018, Ebba Östlin (S), president of the Botkyrka municipal board, and Development Aid Minister Isabella Lövin (MP) presented the government’s allocation to move operations with 500 of the development agency’s employees Sida the municipality. Now Sida chooses Sundbyberg in her place. Stock Photography.
There was no relocation of the development agency Sida and 500 employees from Stockholm city center to Botkyrka, something the government marked for 2018.
Sida now chooses Rissne at Sundbyberg.
Sida states in a press release that they have started negotiations with an owner about a move to Rissne in the Sundbyberg municipality northwest of Stockholm.
“This will save money, in the form of lower costs per square meter and smaller premises, providing more money to help eradicate global poverty,” Marie Ottosson, Sida’s executive director, said in the press release.
In January, almost three years ago, the then Minister of Development Aid, Isabella Lövin (MP), held a press conference together with the Chairman of the Botkyrka municipal board, Ebba Östlin (S) in Botkyrka.
Botkyrka was the mission
Lövin made it clear that the government had given Sida the task of investigating the transfer of a large part of the business to Botkyrka.
Sida was among a number of authorities tasked with requesting premises outside of Stockholm to reduce rental costs, increase the state’s presence across the country and contribute to work in socially and economically vulnerable areas. In all, there were 2,000 jobs and the Sida move was the largest but also the shortest, from Östermalm in Stockholm, a few miles south.
Not local
But according to the authority, it soon became clear that it was not possible to find a suitable location in Botkyrka. In order to move there, Sida had had to build a new office and it was deemed impractical.
In June this year, the government made a new decision on Sida’s relocation and abolished the requirement that it be Botkyrka. Instead, the assignment was to move to a municipality in Stockholm County. The requirements that the move should contribute to socio-economic development, a greater presence of the government outside of Stockholm, and rental costs that remain low are maintained.
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