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[CoAR: Strategy development ]
Project | Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
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 ...
Fragil states, Community development, Diaster management and prevention, Capacity building, Afghanistan
Creating an Enabling Environment for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Framework and Promising Approaches
Journal Article | Jan 2015
This article provides a conceptual framework and points out the key elements for creating enabling environments for adolescent sexual and reproductive ...
Study of the impact of the work of Save the Children Norway in Ethiopia: Building civil society
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
This report is part of a series of four reports resulting from a study commissioned by the Evaluation Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December ...
NGOs, Civil society, advocacy, capacity building, democratisation and good governance, poverty impact, children's rights, civil society organisations, Africa: Ethiopia
What's trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa
Journal Article | Jan 2004
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, Compliance, Local government, South Africa
A Review of Ireland Aid's Human Rights and Democratisation Scheme
CMI Report | Jan 2002
In 1997, Ireland Aid (IA) established a Human Rights and Democratisation (HRD) scheme in order to assist projects outside IA's programme countries. Its ...
human rights, democratisation, aid, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Central America
Traditional, but changing, cultural norms: Rural community views on child marriage in Algadaref State, Sudan
Sudan Report | Dec 2017
This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region.
Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting ...
child marriage, cultural norms, rural community, Algadaref, Sudan
Peacemaking, Customary Laws and Institutions in Dārfūr
Sudan Working Paper | Oct 2016
The traditional native justice system in Darfur has an advantage over the modern state judicial one; it has proved its relevance for effectively managing ...
Institutions, Law, Darfur, Sudan
Public services, security and the legacy of pre-colonial states in Uganda
Project | Feb 2020 - Dec 2023
Public services are essential for development. However, their provision varies greatly across communities within developing countries. Although local ...
Public services, Security, Pre-colonial states, Uganda
New Director for U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
News | 29 Sep 2014
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.
Review of support.to the Blue Diamond Society in Nepal
Project | May - Jul 2018
Norway has provided financial support to the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) since 2007. The Norwegian Embassy (in the current phase) provides support ...
Civil society, health, development aid, Nepal
Debating the developmental state
Event | 7 May 2013
'Good governance' is no longer the catch word in the international donor community. The focus is now on 'good fit' or 'good enough governance' - on which ...
State-religion relations and attempts at regulation: The Indonesian draft law on inter-religious harmony
Event | 16 Aug 2012
While it is generally accepted that states may regulate the activities of religious communities in the interests of social order and public harmony, how ...
Monitoring and evaluating poverty reduction policies in Mozambique: Social relations of rural-urban poverty
CMI Brief | Aug 2009
Many communities in Mozambique find themselves in the rural-urban interface, either by being small towns or rural areas in the vicinity of cities. There ...
poverty reduction, , Mozambique
Keep on Talking! Review of the Nansen Dialogue Network in the Western Balkans
CMI Report | Jan 2008
The review considered whether NDN activities have contributed to improved ethnic relations and to sustainable peace and reconciliation in the Western ...
Macedonia, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Peace-building, Post-conflict, Reconciliation
Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries. Vol. 1: Synthesis report Vol.2: Case studies
Book | Jan 2003
Fisheries in the South Africa Development Community freshwaters are found to function as an economic buffer and as a safety valve for thousands of people ...
Fishery, Freshwater fish, DR Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
American constitutional democracies
News | 12 May 2005
In his new book, senior researcher Roberto Gargarella argues that many of the problems currently attributed to modern constitutional democracies, are not unfortunate "distortions" of a properly organized institutional design, but rather foreseeable effects of that framework.
Does democracy travel well? The role of donors in exporting democratic governance to sub-Saharan Africa
Event | 13 Oct 2011
The international donor community has been trying to promote democratic systems of governance in developing countries. Is progress being made?
Human Rights Forum
Event | 21 Mar 2006
CMI senior researcher Siri Lange:
"Who are to represent local communities in land disputes with mining companies? Pastoralists and land rights under the new mining code in Tanzania"
Utenriksanalyse: Vestlig press styrker Bashir
Newspaper Op-Ed | Apr 2010
Omverdenen taler med to tunger overfor Sudan, og gjør dermed valgseier mulig for landets ettersøkte president.
elections, democracy, authoritarianism, International Criminal Court, ICC, international community, Sudan
Sudan: Challenging the law
News | 6 Jul 2016
The Islamist government in Sudan deter women from divorce in court insisting they are preserving the cornerstone of the Islamic nation, the Muslim family. ...