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CMI Brief | Jan 2021
Reverting five years of progress: Impact of COVID-19 on maternal mortality in Peru
Peru has moved back at least five years on its road to reducing maternal mortality, due to the profound impact COVID-19 has had on the capacity of health services. Our...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2021:1) 4 p.

Commissioned Report | 2020
Evaluation of Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) and UNEP as Implementing Organization
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 51 p.

U4 Issue | 2020
Tackling forestry corruption in Indonesia. Lessons from KPK prosecutions
The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission has successfully prosecuted more than 600 defendants in corruption cases since 2004, but only about 5% of these defendants were charged for offences related to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:15)

Report in External Series | 2020
Evaluation of Norway’s Engagement in Somalia 2012–2018
The purpose of this evaluation commissioned by Norad's evaluation department is to draw lessons from Norway's involvement over time in a country affected by conflict. Somalia is one of the...
Oslo: Norad (Evaluation Department Reports no. 7/2020) 122 + 78 p.

Report in External Series | 2020
Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic - Early Norwegian Development Aid Support
This report - commissioned by Norad's Evaluation Department - provides a mapping and analysis of early Norwegian development aid related to Covid-19 . It gives an overview of all Covid-19...
Oslo: Norad (Background Study, Norad Evaluation Department no. 1/20) 30 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Improved Understanding of FGM/C Abandonment among Sudanese Families in Khartoum and Kassala States
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is widely practiced in Sudan, where the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014 in Sudan, showed a prevalence of FGM/C among women and girls ages 15–49...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:02)

Sudan Brief | 2020
Food Insecurity in Sudan as seen from Kassala State
Sudan’s commitment to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 – zero hunger – can turn out to be even more challenging than anyone had bargained for. Due to prolonged conflict, environmental...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2020:3) 4 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Food Security and Agricultural Development in Sudan: The case of Kassala State
This research discusses the relationship between agricultural development and food security, determinants of supply of (production of food) and demand for (consumption of food) food and determinants of food insecurity...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:1)

CMI Brief | 2020
Women’s status in Haiti ten years after the earthquake
Ten years ago, on January 12, at 16:53 in the afternoon, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. The country was left in shambles. So was the women’s movement. Three of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:07) 4 p.

U4 Issue | 2020
Health sector corruption. Practical recommendations for donors
Corruption in the health sector can make the difference between life and death. It has severe consequences for access, quality, equity, efficiency, and efficacy of health services and is an...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:10)

U4 Practitioner Experience Note | 2020
Twenty years with anti-corruption. Part 4. Evidence on anti-corruption – the struggle to understand what works
The evidence base for donors’ anti-corruption work points to some inconvenient truths about the prospects for success. We are far from possessing a coherent understanding of what should be done...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Practitioner Experience Note 2020:4)

Commissioned Report | 2020
Report on the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Program V in Liberia. Results from the Randomized Controlled Trial
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Why fix KPK when it is not broken?
Indonesia’s most promising attempt at controlling corruption and an inspiration for its peers internationally is about to lose a lot of what enabled it to be so effective and trusted...
Jakarta Post 27 September

CMI Brief | 2019
Priorities and challenges of Qatar’s Humanitarian Diplomacy
This Policy Brief analyzes Qatar’s role in Humanitarian Diplomacy. It begins by defining the term Humanitarian Diplomacy and situating Qatar’s interventions within broader trends of humanitarianism in the Gulf sub-region....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:07) 6 p.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Evalueringer – se til Sverige
Evalueringer har få venner – men de fleste i bistandsbransjen erkjenner at de er nødvendige.
Utenriksdepartementet og Norad – som de fleste andre institusjoner – liker egentlig ikke å bli kikket...
Bistandsaktuelt Mai 2019

U4 Issue | 2019
Beyond the work permit quotas. Corruption and other barriers to labour integration for Syrian refugees in Jordan
In 2016, the Jordanian government began issuing work permits for Syrian refugees through the Ministry of Labor and cooperating labour associations. Despite its successes on some fronts, reliance on intermediaries...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:4)

CMI Report | 2019
Review of the realisation of Norway’s “Strategy for intensifying international efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation for the period 2014–2017”
This report was commissioned by Norad and the evaluation was realised by Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Joar Svanemyr is the main author of the report. Camilla Gianella at CMI and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:16)

Report in External Series | 2019
Transforming Pastoralist Mobility in West Darfur: Understanding Continuity and Change
In the Darfur Region of Sudan, patterns of livestock mobility and livelihood systems are continually adapting and transforming themselves in the face of multiple challenges. Earlier studies have shown that...
A Feinstein International Center publication, January 2019

Report in External Series | 2019
Norwegian Aid and Triangular South-South Cooperation. Mapping, analysis and implications for Norwegian knowledge transfer
This is a mapping study commissioned by Norad's Knowledge Bank as an input to the preparation of their new approach to South-South cooperation. The study maps and reviews trends in...
Oslo: Norad (Discussion Paper, Norad Report no. 1/2019) 28 p.

Journal Article | 2019
What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique
Motivated by the siloed nature of much poverty research, as well as the challenge of finding inclusive operational definitions of poverty, this study reflects on the merits of seeking to...
in World Development vol. 117 pp. 153-166