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Deciding over nature: Corruption and environmental impact assessments

Journal Article | Jul 2017

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are an important analytic tool for identifying and potentially mitigating project risks and negative environmental ...

environmental impact assessments, corruption, anti-corruption, natural resource governance, environmental crime, Albania

Assessing aid impact: A review of Norwegian evaluation practice

Journal Article | Dec 2009

This article reviews recent Norwegian aid evaluations with a mandate to study impact, and assesses how the evaluators establish causal effects. The analytical ...

Development aid, Aid evaluation, Norway

Towards a framework for impact assessment

Book Chapter | Apr 2015

Bridging the literatures on peacebuilding and transitional justice, this chapter outlines an analytical framework for assessing the impact of transitional ...

transitional justice, democracy, peace, human rights violations, accountability, conflict, post-authoritarian, post-conflict, Peru, Rwanda, Angola

Litigating the right to a healthy environment. Assessing the policy impact of "The Mendoza case"

Master's Thesis | Jun 2010

Litigating the right to a healthy environment. Assessing the policy impact of "The Mendoza case" K

Deciding over nature: Corruption and environmental impact assessments

U4 Issue | Nov 2016

Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are a core aspect of environmental decision-making in most countries. Despite massive potential for public harms ...

natural resource management

The Challenge of Assessing Aid Impact: A Review of Norwegian Evaluation Practice

Report in External Series | Apr 2008

The Challenge of Assessing Aid Impact: A Review of Norwegian Evaluation Practice Alf Morten Jerve

Aid evaluation, Evaluation, Norway

Litigating for medicines: How can we assess impact on health outcomes?

Book Chapter | Oct 2011

Litigating for medicines: How can we assess impact on health outcomes? Ole Frithjof Norheim and Si

Dealing with a violent past: The impact of transitional justice

CMI Brief | Jun 2012

This brief assesses the impact of transitional justice mechanisms on peace and democracy. Based on four case studies from Africa and Latin America, it ...

Angola, Rwanda, Peru, Uruguay

Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Historical Perspective ( Abingdon, Routledge, 2015) 258pp

Book Review | Nov 2018

Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconcilia

Chile, truth commission, transitional justice

Assessing the impact of health rights litigation: A comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India and South Africa

Book Chapter | Oct 2011

Assessing the impact of health rights litigation: A comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Col

Legal enforcement of social rights: Enabling conditions and impact assessment

Journal Article | Jan 2010

This article commends the concise and useful analysis of courts and the legal enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights given in Christian Courtis’ ...

Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis

Journal Article | Jul 2014

This paper assesses rural households’ decision to use improved maize varieties in Malawi and examines its impact on household welfare using a three-year ...

improved maize, , technology adoption, , input subsidy, , food security, , Malawi, , Africa

MS at the crossroads. Danish Association for International Cooperation

Report in External Series | Jan 2003

The main objectives of this Evaluation are a) to assess the relevance effectiveness and impact of Danish development assistance administered by MS; and ...

Evaluation

The impact of the international financial crisis on the economy of the Sudan

Sudan Report | May 2009

The ongoing international financial crisis has forced experts, economists, politicians, and decision-makers to assess what is happening and seek to understand ...

Sudan

Sørbø Gunnar M.

Emeritus

Anthropologist focusing on development; conflict and peacebuilding; social impact assessment (incl. resettlement); agricultural and pastoral systems; and regional analysis and economic adaptations.

Conflict and peacebuilding, economic adaptations, arid and semi-arid areas of Africa, agricultural and pastoral systems, rural development, development planning, regional systems, resettlement and ecosystems analysis, Norway's aid policy, Norway's co-operation with developing countries, Africa: Sudan., Asia: Sri Lanka

Litigating the right to a healthy environment assessing the policy impact of "The Mendoza Case"

CMI Report | Nov 2011

This thesis enquires into the policy consequences of the Mendoza case, a public interest litigation case in Argentina, in which several non-governmental ...

Pollution, River basins, Supreme court, Litigation, Argentina

Impacts of Low-cost Land Certification on Investment and Productivity

Event | 28 May 2008

New land reforms are again high on the policy agenda and low-cost, pro-poor reforms are being tested in poor countries. Stein T. Holden, professor at the Norwegian University of Life Science, looks at the Tigray region in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia

Norwegian aid is wasted

News | 21 Jun 2013

Or isn't it? Do aid efforts to reduce child mortality actually work? Do projects aimed at female empowerment lead to less violence against women?

Can litigation clean rivers? Assessing the policy impact of "the Mendoza case" in Argentina

CMI Brief | May 2012

The people of the Matanza-Riachuelo river basin in Argentina live in one of the most polluted places on earth. They suffer from severe health problems, ...

Argentina

Reconciliation in a Transitional Justice Perspective

Journal Article | Sep 2012

Reconciliation is one of the most contested concepts in the scholarly debate on transitional justice, and arguably also the most difficult to measure ...

transitional justice, truth, justice, reconciliation, impact assessment