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Law in Afghanistan: A Critique of Post-2001 Recontruction
Journal Article | Jan 2013
This article provides a critical reflection on the efforts at legal reconstruction initiated in 2001 by the international community and the Afghan government. ...
Asian Models for Aid: Is There a Non-Western Approach to Development Assistance? Summary record of seminar held in Oslo, December 2006
CMI Report | Oct 2007
The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, ...
Development aid, Asia, Japan, China, India, South Korea
Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
CMI Report | Jul 2007
Government policy since independence has by and large disregarded Sudan's multi-religious character through continuous Islamisation and Arabisation processes ...
Religious freedom, Women's rights, Sudan, Gender, Human rights, Religion, Islam, Christianity, Peace building
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, co-published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press (Paperback February 2021)
Book | Sep 2020
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state ...
The Ethiopian "model family": Primary Health Care Provision in the Developmental state
Project | Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government has during ...
Ethiopia
The Depoliticisation of Development and the Democratisation of Politics in Tanzania: Parallel Structures as Obstacles to Delivering Services to the Poor
Journal Article | Jan 2008
Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms that are ...
Local government reform, service delivery, Tanzania
Of laagers, lepers and leanness
CMI Report | Jan 1994
South Africa's return to the international community is fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. The gap between hopes and outcomes, between popular ...
South Africa, Southern Africa, Security, International relations, Foreign policy, Africa: South Africa
Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the Community Development with Traditional Leade
Project | Apr - Jul 2009
Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the Community Development with Traditional Lead
Dos Justicias: Coordinación interlegal e intercultural en Guatemala
Book | Oct 2012
Dos Justicias: Coordinación interlegal e intercultural en Guatemala (Two Justices: Interlegal and Intercultural Coordination in Guatemala) is the ...
indegenous law, Guatemala
Social security, poverty dynamics and economic growth in Angola's smallholder agriculture
CMI Report | Aug 2011
A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines ...
Customary land tenure, Agricultural development, Angola
Humanitarian challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative structures and gender and assistance
CMI Report | Jan 2001
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies
U4 Brief | Feb 2014
Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development community. ...
Addressing corruption in the health sector: Securing equitable access to health care for everyone
U4 Issue | Jan 2011
The development community is striving to achieve results and value for money with its investments in health around the world. Yet, donors often work ...
health, corruption
Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries
Journal Article | Jan 1993
Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries Ragnhild Overå Maritime Anthropologi
Fish traders, fishing communities, gender relations, Ghana, Ghana
[CMI Cluster: Natural Resources ]
Project | Jan - Dec 2017
The aim of this group is to create a multi-disciplinary, multi-method Bergen-based research community focused on the study of natural resources, with ...
The Virtual Museum: Connecting the Humanities, Visual Technologies and Community Development
Event | 8 Dec 2010
What opportunities do virtual museums create for dialog between diverse communities? How can virtual museums contribute to a development paradigm that moves beyond enduring conceptions of aid as a one-way transaction? How can digital media positively augment these processes?
Benefit Streams of Mining in Tanzania
Project | May 2004 - Feb 2005
This projets explores the social and economic effects of mining on two local communities in Tanzania: Geita (gold mining) and Mererani (Tanzanite). the ...
Africa: Tanzania
Hard won wisdom: What conservationists need to know about wildlife-related corruption
Report in External Series | Dec 2016
Wildlife crime is big business — by some estimates it is the fourth largest source of illegal trade after drugs, counterfeit goods and human trafficking. ...
wildlife crime, anti-corruption, wildlife conservation
Making sense of the Southern African Development Community
Journal Article | Sep 2013
SADC has a poor record in advancing peace and security in Southern Africa. Many identify poor policy frameworks and weak technical capacities as ...
SADC. cooperation, security, democracy, Southern Africa
Local violence and international intervention in Sudan
Journal Article | Jun 2010
The efforts of the international community to build peace in Sudan have been frustrated by the failure to stop the violence in Darfur, continuous setbacks ...
Sudan