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'Mucupuki'. Social relations of rural-urban poverty in central Mozambique
CMI Report | Jan 2008
This is the third in a series of six qualitative studies monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, PARPA. Many communities ...
Poverty, Mozambique
The role of participation and empowerment in income and poverty dynamics in Indonesia 1993-2000
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004
The objective of this study is to assess whether living in a community that has a more democratic decision making system or in a society with a higher ...
Household income, Poverty reduction, Indonesia
Multiparty elections in Africa's new democracies
CMI Report | Jan 2002
Why has the electoral process in the newly democratised African states had such limited impacts? How can the continued one-party dominance on the continent ...
Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa: The continued threat of famine
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference ...
Africa: Horn of Africa
Marine protected areas and managing fished ecosystems
CMI Report | Jan 1999
This paper provides a synthesis of the current literature on the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool to limit the ecosystem ...
Ecosystems, Fishery, Marine reserves, Marine protected areas, Community participation, Socio-economic aspects
The 'Mine Action for Peace' programme Afghanistan. Workshop report Kabul, 29 April 2004
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
The 'Mine Action for Peace' programme Afghanistan. Workshop report Kabul, 29 April 2004 Arne Strand
What's Trust Got to Do with It?
News | 1 Feb 2005
A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is inadequate collection of revenues, mainly due to widespread non-payment. However, huge variations in compliance exist both within (poor) communities and between communities that have quite similar socio-economic characteristics.
Gold over love: Making sense of corporate community development projects
News | 27 Feb 2012
Corporate community development projects typically do not fail due to incompetence. They fail because promoting development is not their underlying objective. Making money is.
Collaborative filmmaking in Guatemala
News | 1 Jul 2011
Visual anthropologist Carlos Y. Flores talks about "collaborative video and shared anthropology", showing clips from "K'ixba'l" (Shame, Guatemala, 2010), his latest film from Guatemala.
Guatemala, Mexico
Conference on the conflict in Sri Lanka and the international response
Project | Jan 1996
The conference on the Sri Lankan situation and the role of the international community was arranged by CMI, in cooperation with the All Parties Solidarity ...
Acceptability of an economic support component to reduce early pregnancy and school dropout in Zambia: a qualitative case study
Journal Article | Nov 2019
Background: Cash Transfer (CT) schemes have become popular poverty reducing measures in many low and middle-income countries. Research indicates that ...
Acceptability, Cash transfer, adolescent health, Zambia, Zambia
Building peace through community development
News | 17 Jan 2007
In a war-torn corner of DRC, in Ituri, they have shown that income-generating activities, reconstruction of infrastructure, local radio stations etc., are means to create peace in the midst of violence.
Africa: Democratic Rep. of Congo
Minorities in the Middle East
Event | 23 May 2008
Professor Kais M. Firro holds the opening lecture. Minority politics, minority community dynamics, and relations between members of majority and minority religious communities in the Middle East from a historical and a contemporary perspective.
Legal limits to tribal governance: coal mining in Meghalaya, India
CMI Brief | Mar 2017
Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land ...
mining, coal mining, environment, India, Meghalaya
TB in Vulnerable Populations: The Case of an Indigenous Community in the Peruvian Amazon
Journal Article | Jun 2016
This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis ...
Peru
Good Governance Facades
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2015
Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy ideabecomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of thepolicy. What ...
Towards feasible social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004
The international community is devoting increasing attention to social security issues in developing countries as part of its preoccupation with poverty ...
Social security, Africa South of Sahara
What has trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003
A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...
Public finance, Service charges, Trust, Local government, South Africa, Africa: South Africa
Debate: Development research in Norway
Journal Article | Jan 2001
This article discusses the current framework for development research in Norway, which today is entirely dependent on the development assistance budget. ...
Development research, research policy, globalisation
Combating corruption: A transparency index for donors?
Journal Article | Jan 1999
For decades the international donor community has turned a blind eye to corruption in developing countries. This attitude appears to have changed. There ...
Corruption, Foreign aid