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CMI Brief | 2020
La diplomatie humanitaire
Améliorer l’accès à l’aide humanitaire dans les conflits et dans les situations d’urgence complexes a toujours été la plus grande préoccupation pour les acteurs humanitaires. Historiquement l’humanitarisme a été conduit...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:06) 4 p.

U4 Brief | 2020
Covid-19 and donor financing. Minimising corruption risks while ensuring efficiency
With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, development aid and donor agencies face new challenges. They have to deliver essential products and financial assistance in a short time frame to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2020:10)

U4 Report | 2020
Submission to the UK Parliament International Development Committee “Effectiveness of UK Aid Inquiry”, 2020
Corruption in its various guises is well established as an impediment both to aid
effectiveness and broader development goals: this is why anti-corruption efforts are a core aspect of official development...
Presented at: International Development Committee, House of Commons, UK

CMI Insight | 2020
The changing role of Chinese development aid
In recent years, China has significantly increased its development interventions. China is now among the major providers of aid to Africa. Foreign aid has become an important tool in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:1) 8 p.

U4 Practitioner Experience Note | 2020
Twenty years with anti-corruption. Part 2. Fighting the ‘seven deadly thins’ – starting the DFID journey
DFID’s experience between 1997 and 2010 saw a fundamental shift in the accepted role of a development agency and unique innovations in anti-corruption thinking and operations. The years would also...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Practitioner Experience Note 2020:2)

U4 Brief | 2020
Corruption in the time of COVID-19: A double-threat for low income countries
It is critical to continue a strong stance against corrupt practices during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-corruption procedures and systems of accountability will ensure that development aid is...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2020:6)

U4 Brief | 2020
La corruption au temps du COVID-19 : double menace pour les pays à faibles revenus
Maintenir la lutte contre la corruption durant la réponse à l’épidémie du Covid-19 s’avère essentiel. Mettre en place des procédures ainsi que des systèmes permettant de rendre compte des décisions...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2020:7)

Report in External Series | 2020
Blind Sides and Soft Spots – An Evaluation of Norway's Aid Engagement in South Sudan
The evaluation has looked at Norway's engagement in South Sudan during the period 2011-2018 (with a look back to 2005). The evaluation has assessed the effects of the total Norwegian...
Oslo: Norad (Evaluation Reports no. Report 3/2020) 130 p.

CMI Brief | 2020
Everyday humanitarian diplomacy: Experiences from border areas
The term humanitarian diplomacy (HD) emerged in early 2000s. HD recognises the role of humanitarian actors when negotiating access, assistance and protection for civilians in situations of extreme insecurity and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:2) 4 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
The UAE’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Claiming State Sovereignty, Regional Leverage and International Recognition
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the world’s third-largest donor of humanitarian aid relative to Gross National Income in 2016. The country was among the top five humanitarian assistance state-donors...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:1) 11 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of climate change induced displacement
Place-based resettlement capacity assessments to identify potential resettlement places for climate migrants are needed to guide climate change related resettlement programs. The authors propose and validate a conceptual climate change...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:3) 46 p.

U4 Issue | 2020
Reciprocity networks, service delivery, and corruption: The wantok system in Papua New Guinea
In all countries, informal systems of reciprocity influence the distribution of state resources. These social networks help people cope with adversity but can also promote favouritism and corruption, posing a...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:1)

Journal Article | 2020
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
Climate change is predicted to cause voluntary and forced internal migration on an unprecedented scale in the coming decades. Yet, research on host communities that will be on the front...
in Global Environmental Change vol. 65

Journal Article | 2019
Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal
Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation of attitudes towards women as...
in The Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 57 no. 3 pp. 459-481

Journal Article | 2019
The New Lost Boys of Sudan
Currently, around seven million people are affected by migration and displacement to, from, and through Sudan. Nearly one million people are seeking refuge inside Sudan’s borders from neighboring and regional...
in POMEPS Studies : Youth Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. vol. 36

Edited Book | 2019
Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in...
Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd. c 200 p.

Book Chapter | 2019
Ceasefires
A review of the practice and content of ceasefire agreements and provisions in peace agreements. The article include a discussion on the definition of ‘ceasefire’ and related terms, such as...
in Romaniuk, S., Thapa M., and P. Marton: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan

Journal Article | 2019
Emergency Urbanism in Sabra, Beirut.
Since the mid-1980s, generations of displaced people have sought refuge in the ramshackle buildings that were once the Gaza-Ramallah Hospital, a multi-story hospital complex built by the Palestinian Liberation Organization...
in Public Anthropologist vol. 1 no. 2 pp. 171-193

CMI Brief | 2019
Turkey’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: The AKP Model
Turkey has become a major global humanitarian actor. They have been widely engaged in Somalia and Syria, Pakistan and Myanmar and hosts the world’s largest number of refugees with more...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:08) 5 p.

U4 Brief | 2019
‘Kenyapowerless’ – Corruption as 'Problem Solving' in Kenya's Periphery
Rising demand for electricity in the Kenyan periphery has created opportunities for corruption. Decentralised solar electricity exists, but those running a business from home using modern appliances need more energy....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2019:1)