CMI Reports

CMI Report | Apr 2025

Taxation and Business Development in Zanzibar Insights from a Business Survey

Viola Asri, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Lucas Katera, Samwel Nassary and Ahmed Saadat (2025)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2025:02)
CMI Report | Mar 2025

La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, Convivencia y la No-repetición, y Violencia Sexual Relacionada con los Conflictos

Adriana Rudling (2025)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2025:01) 55 p.
CMI Report | 2024

The Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Adriana Rudling (2024)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2024:04)
CMI Report | 2024

How can women benefit from private sector development?

Viola Asri, Magnus Hatlebakk and Espen Villanger (2024)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2024:03)
CMI Report | 2024

Violencia sexual relacionado con el conflicto armado interno y justicia transicional en Guatemala

En este informe, la antropóloga guatemalteca Irma Alicia Velásquez detalla en qué medida los informes de las comisiones de la verdad en Guatemala abordaron la violencia sexual relacionada con el...
Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj (2024)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2024:2) 53 p.
CMI Report | 2024

Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and Transitional Justice in Guatemala

Preface Guatemala is a paradigmatic case of long-run efforts to punish perpetrators for conflict-related crimes of sexual violence during armed conflict. Truth commission reports published after the internal armed conflict ended...
Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj (2024)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2024:01)
CMI Report | 2023

Changing Geopolitics of the South Caucasus after the Second Karabakh War. Prospect for Regional Cooperation and/or Rivalry

This report is from the research project “Changing Geopolitics of the South Caucasus: The Prospect for Regional Cooperation and the Role of the External Actors”, funded by the Norwegian Ministry...
Siri Neset, Mustafa Aydin, Ayça Ergun, Richard Giragosian, Kornely Kakachia, Arne Strand (2023)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2023:4) 72 p.
CMI Report | 2023

The spatial governance of the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan: Refugees between urban settlements and encampment policies

This CMI Report presents a critical analysis of the Jordans’ governance of the Syrian refugee crisis and discusses the spatial policies in the framework of space and power. It identifies...
Zaid Awamleh, Kamel Dorai (2023)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2023:3) 16 p.
CMI Report | 2023

Save the Children’s work on child protection and child rights in Mozambique and South Sudan

Background Save the Children Norway (SCN) and its partners are implementing an extensive programme to support children’s education, child protection and child rights in 16 countries. The programme is running from...
Matthew Gichohi, Ottar Mæstad (2023)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2023:2) 44 p.
CMI Report | 2023

Examining poverty and food insecurity in the context of long-term social-ecological changes in Kabul, Afghanistan

This report examines how long-term socioeconomic and environmental changes have shaped the context for poverty and food insecurity in Afghanistan. An estimated 97% of the population is currently under the...
Yograj Gautam, Anwesha Dutta, Patrick Jantz, Alark Saxena, Antonio De Lauri (2023)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2023:1) 20 p.
CMI Report | 2022

Household wellbeing and coping strategies in Africa during COVID-19. Updated Findings from high frequency phone surveys

Peter Hangoma, Carlo Koos, Ottar Mæstad (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2022:07)
CMI Report | 2022

Refugees as future returnees? Anatomy of the ‘paradigm shift’ towards temporary protection in Denmark

The ‘paradigm shift’ in Danish asylum policy, officially introduced in 2019, implied the adoption of quasi-mandatory rules on revocation of asylum residence permits as soon as the circumstances in the...
Jens Vedsted-Hansen (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2022:6) 44 p.
CMI Report | 2022

The temporary turn in Norwegian asylum law and practice

In Norway during the 1990s, a concept of temporary protection developed both as a principle of asylum for all refugees and as a tool for facilitating and coordinating asylum in...
Jessica Schultz (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2022:5) 42 p.
CMI Report | 2022

UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward

Summary This commissioned report has two main aims: First, providing a description of what UNRWA is, including its history, mandate and services, with particular emphasis on the recent funding deficit and...
Kjersti G. Berg, Jørgen Jensehaugen, Åge A. Tiltnes (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2022:04) 48 p.
CMI Report | 2022

Community-Driven Development or community-based development?

Review of Norwegian-funded CDC projects in Afghanistan
Arne Strand, Magnus Hatlebakk, Torunn Wimpelmann, Mirwais Wardak (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2022:3) 60 p.
CMI Report | 2022

Community driven development in fragile contexts

This review of community driven development discusses the incentive problems that arise when an external agency attempts to involve the local community in the planning and implementation of development projects. 
Magnus Hatlebakk (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2022:2) 18 p.
CMI Report | 2022

UN Resolution 16/18 and the Istanbul Process: What has been achieved? A charting of blasphemy trends in Pakistan and Indonesia.

Kari Telle (2022)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2022:01) 32 p.
CMI Report | 2021

Does aid work?

This report attempts to understand why research findings differ on the impacts of foreign aid on in particular economic growth, but as a corollary also on the impacts of aid...
Magnus Hatlebakk (2021)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2021:11) 24 p.
CMI Report | 2021

Direct Financing of Health Facilities. Experiences from financing reforms in Tanzania.

Ottar Mæstad, Jo Borghi, Farida Hassan, Eskindir Shumbullo Loha, John Maiba, Iddy Mayumana, Vincent Somville, Sarah Tobin, Peter Binyaruka (2021)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2021:10)
CMI Report | 2021

Direct health facility financing in Tanzania. Process evaluation. Phone Survey #3

Peter Binyaruka, Ottar Mæstad, Vincent Somville (2021)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report 2021:09)