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 ...

This is the third in a series of six qualitative studies monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, PARPA. Many communities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 'Mine Action for Peace' programme Afghanistan. Workshop report Kabul, 29 April 2004 Arne Strand

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.

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.

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 ...

Background: Cash Transfer (CT) schemes have become popular poverty reducing measures in many low and middle-income countries. Research indicates that ...

Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land ...

This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis ...

Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy ideabecomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of thepolicy. What ...

The international community is devoting increasing attention to social security issues in developing countries as part of its preoccupation with poverty ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

This article discusses the current framework for development research in Norway, which today is entirely dependent on the development assistance budget. ...

For decades the international donor community has turned a blind eye to corruption in developing countries. This attitude appears to have changed. There ...

The Afghan NGO CoAR is involving their staff and partners in formulation of a new 5 year strategy, to be facilitated by CMI.  The process will take ...

Boris Divjak started as Director of our U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre in September. He wants to reach even more practitioners from the development community.