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Tribal Peoples, Nationalism and the Human Rights Challenge. The Adivasis of Bangladesh
Book | Jan 2005
The mapping of the chaning historical relationships between people, lands and identities in the central tribal belt of India and in north-eastern parts ...
Ethnic minorities, Human rights, Violence, Adivasis, Asia: Bangladesh
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004
Edited Book | Jan 2005
Human rights are currently an important area of research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), as they have been for the past 20 years. This anthology ...
Human rights, Economic and social rights, democracy, democratization, development, party systems, truth comissions, reconcilliation, foreign policy, courts in transition, Africa: South Africa, Zambia., Asia: Bangladesh., Americas: Latin America
Fragmented production: regionalization of trade?
Report in External Series | Jan 2003
This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of production. Within such a framework ...
Asia: China., Americas: Mexico
Review of the Nepal Human Rights Yearbook 1993-2002
CMI Report | Jan 2003
NORAD has been supporting the Nepal Human Rights Yearbook for a decade, from the pilot issue in 1992 and up to the present date. The Yearbook has over ...
Human rights, Aid, Evaluation, Nepal, Asia: Nepal
Afghanistan: Current humanitarian challenges
CMI Report | Jan 2001
More than twenty years of war and civil war and a severe drought has increased the vulnerability of the Afghan population. The warring fractions, the ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Evaluation of the Norwegian Fredskorpset (FK Norway)
Project | Jun - Dec 2015
Fredskorpset is a Norwegian government agency established to promote and fund exchange of young professionals and volunteers between Norway and developing ...
Civil society, technical assistance, NGOs, Norway, Africa, Asia
Corruption in the Education Sector in Bangladesh
Project | Jan 2001 - Mar 2005
The project focuses on the relationship between education and corruption in Bangladesh. The main interest is in the types of interpersonal transactions ...
Corruption, education, bureaucracy, transactions, anthropology, Bangladesh, Asia: Bangladesh
Breaking the landlords' hold on labourers
News | 31 May 2012
The transition from a feudal to a modern economy has changed the labour market in Nepal. There are more and better paid jobs available, also outside the agricultural sector. Yet, some Nepalese labourers in rural areas continue to have coercive traditional contracts with landlords. Government programmes can help poor families out of these contracts through access to insurance, credit and social services.
Economic determinants of food intake and health outcomes in Nepal
Project | Jan 2006 - Dec 2012
The project is part of a larger program at the Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, which focuses on child nutrition in Bhaktapur, Nepal. ...
Asia: Nepal
Conflictual peacebuilding: Afghanistan two years after Bonn
Project | Jul 2003 - Feb 2004
The report examines the development in Afghanistan between December 2001 and February 2004. Three standards are relevant for such an examination, ranging ...
Afghanistan, Peacebuilding, Asia: Afghanistan
Evaluation Hambantota Integrated Rural development Project - Sri Lanka
Project | Jan - Dec 2001
NORAD terminated in 2000 its funding for HIRDEP, which has been the longest lasting IRDP within Norwegian aid. The project was evaluated in 1992 by CMI, ...
Programme evaluation, Asia: Sri Lanka
Participatory study on Santal culture in Bangladesh
Project | Sep 1996 - Sep 1999
The project, which started in September 1996 and ran over three years, was funded by the Strømme Memorial Foundation, a Norwegian NGO. The project was ...
Asia: Bangladesh
When Neighbours Become Killers: Ethnic Conflict and Communal Violence in Western Uganda
CMI Working Paper | Jul 2007
Across Africa land rights conflicts are escalating between indigenous and migrant ethnic groups. This paper analyses the communal violence that took place ...
Ethnic conflicts, Violence, Uganda
Peacebuilding: Lessons for Afghanistan?
CMI Report | Jan 2002
This report examines lessons from previous peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and from other countries, in order to highlight issues of central relevance ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Chia Se Poverty Alleviation Programme - Vietnam/Sida
Project | Oct 2003 - Dec 2009
This 6 year Sida-funded programme develops an approach for supporting local level activities in the poorest communes in 6 districts (in three provinces ...
Poverty, local level planning, participatory planning, national poverty strategy, Asia: Vietnam
Gender (in)justice - Pakistan
Project | Nov 2003 - Nov 2006
The report review steps taken by the Musharraf government to combat honour killings through an examination of legal reforms in the years between 2003- ...
Honur killings, Pakistani plural legal traditions, Jirga, Sharia courts, the Hudood Ordinance, and the Zina laws, Asia: Pakistan
Social Development and Investment. The Cases of Botswana and Malaysia
Project | Aug - Dec 2003
This case study project is related to an attempt by the World Bank to come up with a set of measurable social indicators. The Bank wishes to:
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Malaysia Botswana Social Development Investment, Africa: Botswana., Asia: Malaysia
Evaluation of the Danish Association for International Cooperation (MS)
Project | Jan - Dec 2003
The main objectives of the evaluation were to (a) assess the relevance, effectiveness and impact of Danish development assistance administered by MS; ...
aid, NGOs, partnership, Africa: Kenya, Zambia., Asia: Nepal
TRAFIG Transnational Figurations of Displacement
Project | Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
TRAFIG, Transnational Figurations of Displacement, is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 research and innovation project. From 2019 to 2021, 12 partner organisations ...
Pandey Saumya
PhD Candidate
Saumya Pandey is a doctoral candidate working on the political economy of river sand mining in South Asia. Her research project follows world’s ...
Nepal, India