CMI Research by Geographical Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Map: CMI research on Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is CMIs core geographic region. Research on Sub-Saharan Africa dominates our research portfolio and our commissioned work.
Core thematic areas include: aid, poverty, good governance, peacebuilding, natural resources, political institutions, elections, courts, taxation, rights, corruption, health, and religion.
Africa is a core focus in all four thematic research areas. Much of the research is multidisciplinary and involves African research institutions. CMI has a large network of research partners in several countries across the continent.
CMI staff have extensive research competence in a number of African countries including Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Special focus: Regional Co-operation in Southern Africa
Several CMI researchers from all four thematic groups are involved in a new multi-year research programme which seeks to provide scholarly assistance to the process of regional integration in Southern Africa. This research is co-ordinated by the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) in close consultation with the SADC Secretariat. Researchers from several SADC countries participate in this programme which is funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Pretoria.
CMI researchers participating in the programme contribute to projects related to external donor support to SADC, SADC's institutional restructuring, economic integration related to trade and finance, and democratisation issues. The first publication emanating from this project was a background study for SADC's consultative conference with the International Co-operating Partners in April. The publication - SADC and Donors - Ideals and Practices. From Gaborone to Paris and Back by CMI researcher Elling N. Tjønneland.
The new research programme builds on a long tradition of CMI research and commissioned work related to SADC and regional co-operation and to the role of the international community and donor countries. CMI projects have included preparation of background studies for SADC's inaugural conference in 1980, the first major study on intra-regional trade in Southern Africa for the SADC Secretariat (1986), SADC's official history (1994) and a range of studies, appraisals, reviews and evaluation for all the Nordic development aid agencies. In recent year the focus for CMI's work has been the ongoing institutional reform of SADC, strategies and options for external support, South Africa's role as the regional power, implication of the continental development related to the African Union, and several issues linked to SADC's programme of action. This is especially linked to trade, finance, governance and security issues.
In carrying out these projects CMI draws upon its in-house country expertise related to most of SADC's member countries and to the scholarly competence in all the research groups. CMI also has a network of collaborating scholars and partner institutions in many of the countries concerned - Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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