CMI Staff
Jan Isaksen
Thematic research group:
Public Sector Reform
Keywords:
Macro-economics, policy analysis, public finance, poverty analysis, development aid, regional co-operation, institutional development and capacity building for policy analysis.
Geographic keywords:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southern and Central Asia
Africa: South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya.
Asia: Armenia.
Senior Researcher
E-mail: jan.isaksen@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938078 Mob: +47 93002944
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Jan Isaksen is an economist with 38 years experience in research, research management, policy advice and public sector technical assistance. His geographical concentration is on Southern and Eastern Africa but also includes Eastern Europe and Asia. His experience include operational work as a civil servant and as United Nations HQ staff (UNIDO), and in-country advisory positions, consultancies with UN and the World Bank as well as other international organisations. On the consultancy side, his particular skills lie in conceptualising, funding and running policy research projects, serving as Team leader/project director.
Isaksen has played a key role in setting up two well known research institutes in the Southern African region (BIDPA in Botswana and NEPRU in Namibia) and served as their first co-ordinator/director. Isaksen's background in econometrics, macro-economics, macro economic management and public finance management, trade statistics and industrial sector research serves as a strong foundation for his work in the area of policy analysis. Current research interests are policy analysis for development, including macro-economics, macro modelling and institutional aspects of macro-economic management as well as public finance, poverty analysis, development aid issues, regional co-operation and institutional evelopment /capacity building.
Isaksen is currently co-ordinator of CMI's Angola-forum and directs a major cooperation programme with the research centre CEIC in Angola. He is a member of the CMI board and also a member of the Executive Board of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). He is a Norwegian Honorary Consul to Botswana.
| Projects | Project search: Jan Isaksen |
Current and recently completed projects:
Review of Project proposal on Vocational Training
Start: Feb. 2009 (Current)
Appraisal of NPA Mine Action Programme proposal in Angola
Start: Jun. 2008 (Current)
Keywords: Demining, Angola
Geography: Angola
Budget system and Public expenditure
Start: Apr. 2008 (Current)
Keywords: Angola Budget system, budgeting Public sector budget
Geography: Angola
CEIC - CMI Cooperation Programme
Start: Feb. 2008 (Current)
Macro Model for Angola
Start: Jan. 2008 (Current)
Geography: Angola
The Political Economy of the Angolan Budget Process
Start: Mar. 2007 (Current)
Keywords: Angola, governance, budget, public sector
Geography: Angola
African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Start: Jul. 2005 (Current)
Keywords: Capacity building, Policy analysis, Research
Geography: Africa
The Basics of Integrity in Procurement. A Guidebook
Start: Nov. 2009 (Completed)
Keywords: procurement, corruption, development aid
Evaluation of the World Bank's Support for Public Sector Reform
Start: Jun. 2007 (Completed)
Keywords: Developing countries, transitionary countries, corruption, transparency, public sector, evaluation
Evaluation of Norway's Power Related Assistance
Start: Jan. 2007 (Completed)
Keywords: electricity, power, Mozambique, Nepal
Geography: Mozambique
Managing Aid Exit and Transformation: Lessons from Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi and South Africa
Start: Dec. 2006 (Completed)
Keywords: Aid effectiveness
Geography: Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi, South Africa
Teaching material: Business Ethics, Public Sector Ethics and Natural Resources Management
Start: Feb. 2006 (Completed)
Geography: Angola
Research and Institutional Development Links between CMI and SEAPREN
Start: Apr. 2003 (Completed)
Keywords: Institutional cooperation, research, policy analysis, capacity building, poverty, governance, regioanal integration
Geography: Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
Budget Process and Transparency in Angola
Start: Oct. 2006 (Completed)
Keywords: public reform, budget, transparenct, civil society
Geography: Angola
| Publications | Publication search: Jan Isaksen |
Publications by category:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Macro-Economic Convergence Policy in the Southern African Development Community: Prospects and Challenges
Kweka, Josaphat, Dennis Rweyemamu, Eliab Luvanda, Jan Isaksen and Samuel Wangwe (2007)
in Jonathan Mayuyuka Kaunda (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2006 FOPRISA Annual Conference. Gaborone: Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis pp. 235-272
Botswana
Isaksen, Jan (2006)
in Oljespill: Jakten på Afrikas Svarte Gull. Fellesrådets Afrikaårbok 2007. Oslo: Fellesrådet for Afrika/Solidaritet forlag pp. 214-215
SADC restructuring and the future
Isaksen, Jan (2003)
in Dirk Hansohm, Willie Breytenbach and Trudi Hartzenberg: Monitoring regional integration in Southern Africa yearbook, Volume 3. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan pp. 201-219
Prospects for SACU after apartheid
Isaksen, Jan (1993)
in Bertil Odén (ed.): Southern Africa after apartheid. Uppsala: The Scandinavia Institute of African Studies pp. 182-200
Reports
Open budgets, transform lives.
Carlitz, Ruth, Paolo de Renzio, and Warren Krafchik and edited by Delaine (2009)
Washington DC: International Budget Partnership 58 p.
Managing Aid Exit and Transformation. Botswana Country Case Study. On CD-Rom
Isaksen, Jan (2008)
Stockholm: Sida/Norad/ Danida/ Netherland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Joint Donor Evaluation)
Anti-corruption Reforms: Challenges, Effects and Limits of World Bank Support
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Jan Isaksen (2008)
Washington DC: Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank (IEG Working Paper no. 7) 78 p.
Public Sector Reform: What Works and Why?
Webb, S. W(team leader), M. Casanegra (tax adm), A. Evans (civil service reform), O.-H. Fjeldstad & J. Isaksen (anticorruption), I. Funke (ass team leader), R. Webb (history), C. Wescott (public financial management) (2008)
Washington DC: World Bank (IEG Evaluation Report) 90 p.
Reclaiming the fields of war: Mainstreaming mine action in development
Isaksen, Jan and Kristian Berg Harpviken (2004)
Oslo/New York: International Peace Research Institute / United Nations Development Programme 110 p.
Budgetary processes and economic governance in Southern and Eastern Africa. Literature review.
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge, Dirk Hansohm, Jan Isaksen and Erwin Naimhwaka (2004)
Windhoek: NEPRU (Working Paper no. 95) 38 p.
CMI Reports
O Papel das Igrejas na Redução da Porbreza em Angola
Jensen, Søren Kirk, Nelson Pestana (2010)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2010: 1) 45 p.
Orçamento, Estado e Povo. Processo de Orçamento, Sociedade Civil e Transparência em Angola
Isaksen, Jan, Inge Amundsen, Arne Wiig, com Cesaltina Abreu (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007: 14) 91 p.
Budget, State and People. Budget Process, Civil Society and Transparency in Angola
Isaksen, Jan, Inge Amundsen, Arne Wiig with Cesaltina Abreu (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007: 7) 87 p.
Experience and Institutional Capacity for Poverty and Income Distribution Analysis in Angola
Isaksen, Jan, Inge Tvedten, Pacheco Ilinga (2006)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2006: 19) 65 p.
Mid-term Review of the Angola Programme of Norwegian People's Aid
Isaksen, Jan, Ingrid Samset and Fernando Pacheco (2006)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2006: 1) 101 p.
Micro and Small-scale Industry. Development in Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique
Isaksen, Jan and Carlos Rafa Mate (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2005: 10)
Poverty in Mozambique. Discourse, Analysis and Monitoring. Suggestions for National Stakeholders and the Donor Community
Isaksen, Jan, Anette Staaland and Bernhard Weimer (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2005: 9) 114 p.
SADC's Restructuring and Emerging Policies. Options for Norwegian Support
Tjønneland, Elling N., Jan Isaksen and Garth le Pere (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2005: 7) 42 p.
SADC in 2003: Restructuring and progress in regional integration
Isaksen, Jan (2004)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2004: 3) 30 p.
Best practice in capacity building in public finance management in Africa. Experiences of Norad and Sida
Isaksen, Jan and Göran Andersson (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2002:16) 53 p.
Restructuring SADC - progress and problems
Isaksen, Jan (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2002:15) 83 p.
Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS in African countries
Isaksen, Jan, Nils Gunnar Songstad and Arild Spissøy (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2002:10) 89 p.
Assessing the restructuring of SADC - positions, policies and progress
Isaksen, Jan and Elling N. Tjønneland (2001)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2001:6) 65 p.
CMI Working Papers
Energy cooperation in Southern Africa: What role for Norway?
Isaksen, Jan (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2002:4) 66 p.
U4 Publications
The budget process and corruption
Isaksen, Jan (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2005:3)
Other External Publications
Botswana
Isaksen, Jan (2009)
in Sigrun Johnstad og Thorodd Ommundsen (Eds.): Arena Afrika. Kappløp om makt og ressurser. Fellesrådets Afrikaårbok 2009. Oslo: Fellesrådet for Afrika og Solidaritet forlag pp. 154-155
Newspaper Op-Eds
Botswanas suksesshistorie
Isaksen, Jan (2006)
Bergens Tidende 24.03.2006
