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Sub-Saharan Africa

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Map: CMI projects on Sub-Saharan Africa

Projects

A Way Out of Violent Conflict? The Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Peacebuilding
Start: Apr. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: Transitional justice, impact assessment
Geography: Angola, Chile, Peru, Rwanda

Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Southern Mozambique (sub-project 3)
Start: Mar. 2010 (Current)
Geography: Mozambique

Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights
Start: Feb. 2010 (Current)
Geography: Guatemala; Kenya; Mozambique; Sudan

Nigeria: Norwegian Support of Good Governance
Start: Feb. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: Good governance, anti-corruption
Geography: Nigeria

Sida: Study on Support to Parliaments
Start: Feb. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: Parliaments, donor support
Geography: Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya

Climate Change Discourse, Rights, and the Poor
Start: Jan. 2010 (Initiation)
Keywords: Climate change, discourse, global challenge, the poor, poverty
Geography: South Africa

Review of Training for Peace
Start: Dec. 2009 (Current)
Keywords: Peacekeeping, AU, SADC, training

'Opitanha' Revisited. Assessing the Implications of PARPA II in Rural Northern Mozambique 2006-2009
Start: Nov. 2009 (Completed)
Geography: Mozambique

Election processes, liberation movements and democratic change in Africa
Start: Nov. 2009 (Current)
Keywords: Liberation movements, pro-democray movements, Africa, elections, democracy
Geography: Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabawe,

Follow the Money: An Analysis of trends in support to civil society in Southern Africa
Start: Oct. 2009 (Completed)
Keywords: Aid,Civil Society
Geography: Southern Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa
News

Media constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa

Democratic elections depend on a free press. "Free and fair" elections require free access to information. The last two decades of elections show that political constraints and restricted access to information prevents an independent media in Sub-Sharan Africa. Read more

Navigating complexity.

TfP has been an important programme which has made a significant contribution to the evolving African Peace and Security Architecture, but the programme has struggled with implementing suggested measures to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. Read more

Gunnar Sørbø comments in VG

Senior researcher Gunnar M. Sørbø comments on the election results in Norwegian paper VG. Read more

Monitoring and Evaluating Mozambique's Poverty Reduction Strategy

This report analyses poverty and well-being in the rural district of Murrupula, revisiting four local communities and a total of 120 households, three years after the first study in 2006. Read more

Ownership and Everyday Peacebuilding

Lack of local ownership is seen as a central explanation for why peacebuilding efforts fail to yield sustainable peace dividends. Based on research in Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia and Sudan, this study shows that external actors foster unsustainable reform efforts because they assume ownership as a conditional right as their to give when certain conditions are met. Read more

Recent publications

Overworked? On the relationship between workload and health worker performance Ottar Mæstad, Gaute Torsvik and Arild Aakvik (forthcoming)

Informal payments and the quality of health care: mechanisms revealed by Tanzanian health workers Ottar Mæstad (forthcoming)

Fishery as a livelihood strategy in Malawi. Analyzing a small LSMS sub-sample Magnus Hatlebakk (forthcoming)

Media constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa Marie-Soleil Frère of Université Libre de Bruxelles (2010)

Local violence and international intervention in Sudan Gunnar M. Sørbø (2010)

Recent projects and programmes

A Way Out of Violent Conflict? The Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Peacebuilding

Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Southern Mozambique (sub-project 3)

Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights

Nigeria: Norwegian Support of Good Governance

Sida: Study on Support to Parliaments

Recent library acquisitions

Complicated coordination in a complex emergency by Bjørn Ivar Kruke
Humanitarian assistance, Emergency relief, Aid coordination, Theses, Sudan

Desafios para Mocambique 2010 organiza#pcÆo, Lu¡s de Brito ... [et al.]
Politics, Economic policy, Social policy, Foreign relations, Mozambique

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