The mapping of the chaning historical relationships between people, lands and identities in the central tribal belt of India and in north-eastern parts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fredskorpset is a Norwegian government agency established to promote and fund exchange of young professionals and volunteers between Norway and developing ...

The project focuses on the relationship between education and corruption in Bangladesh. The main interest is in the types of interpersonal transactions ...

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.

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. ...

The report examines the development in Afghanistan between December 2001 and February 2004. Three standards are relevant for such an examination, ranging ...

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, ...

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 ...

Across Africa land rights conflicts are escalating between indigenous and migrant ethnic groups. This paper analyses the communal violence that took place ...

This report examines lessons from previous peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and from other countries, in order to highlight issues of central relevance ...

This 6 year Sida-funded programme develops an approach for supporting local level activities in the poorest communes in 6 districts (in three provinces ...

The report review steps taken by the Musharraf government to combat honour killings through an examination of legal reforms in the years between 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: - ...

The main objectives of the evaluation were to (a) assess the relevance, effectiveness and impact of Danish development assistance administered by MS; ...

TRAFIG, Transnational Figurations of Displacement, is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 research and innovation project. From 2019 to 2021, 12 partner organisations ...

Saumya Pandey is a doctoral candidate working on the political economy of river sand mining in South Asia. Her research project follows world’s ...