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Humanitarian Diplomacy: A New Research Agenda
CMI Brief | Jun 2018
Improving access to humanitarian aid in conflict and complex emergencies has always been a major concern for policy makers and humanitarian actors. Historically, ...
Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian diplomacy
When Do Donor Endorsements Help or Hurt? Policy Advocacy and Men's Interests in Malawi
Report in External Series | Jun 2018
Development organizations seek to improve support for gender reforms, especially among populations who might undermine implementation. Yet, little is ...
Fertility, household’s size and poverty in Nepal
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2014
Population control policies keep on attracting a lot of attention. The main argument in favour of a reduction in fertility rates, is that having more ...
Household, fertility, Nepal
A Peace Nation Takes Up Arms. The Norwegian Engagement in Afghanistan
Report in External Series | Jan 2011
What have been the main drivers of Norway’s approach to the post-9/11 international engagement in Afghanistan? This paper considers two ...
Beyond the surge: Policy options for Afghanistan
CMI Report | Jul 2009
The surge in the US presence in Afghanistan, announced by President Barack Obama soon after taking office, is unfolding rapidly. What does this ‘surge’ ...
Foreign policy, United States, Afghanistan, UN
Building accountable resource governance institutions
Report in External Series | Dec 2019
Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest ...
Natural resource management, accountability, formal institutions, informal institutions, anti-corruption
Liberalisation of agricultural produce marketing and household food security in Malawi
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991
This paper presents the preliminary findings of a baseline survey of 1800 households in three different agricultural development divisions which was undertaken ...
Agricultural policy, Food security, Household survey, Malawi, Africa: Malawi
Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking in Fragile States
Event | 23 May 2011
How has scholarship on state fragility influenced the policies of influential international actors? Professor Paris argues that academic research has helped policy-makers to define and refine understandings of state fragility as a policy problem, and has informed the development of operational frameworks for response.
Women’s status in Haiti ten years after the earthquake
CMI Brief | Jun 2020
Ten years ago, on January 12, at 16:53 in the afternoon, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. The country was left in shambles. So was the women’s ...
Women's movement, earthquake, gender policies, Haiti
Corruption in land administration: Roles for donors to minimise the problem
U4 Brief | Mar 2013
Land issues have been rising up the agenda of policy makers due to rapid urbanisation and high food prices. Yet, land administration is one of the most ...
Providing development aid to Africa: Comparing South Africa with China, India and Brazil
Report in External Series | Feb 2013
South Africa’s planned development aid agency, South African Development Partnership Agency, is expected to be established in 2013. This report ...
Development Aid, Emerging Powers, Africa, South Africa, Brazil, China, India
Gender and poverty in Mozambique
CMI Brief | Oct 2010
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are high on the government and donor agendas in Sub-Saharan Africa, but have largely failed to have an impact. ...
Mozambique, Gender, Poverty
Exploring the spatio-temporal processes of communal rangeland grabbing in Sudan
Journal Article | Jan 2018
The persistent policy of successive Sudanese governments in favouring large-scale agricultural investments at the expense of traditional land use is creating ...
Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture
CMI Report | Jan 2018
The report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and the role ...
Norwegian aid, Food security, Nutrition, Agriculture, Malawi, South-Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Strategies of Self-Proclaimed Pro-Life Groups: Effect of New Religious Actors on Sexual Policies
Journal Article | May 2016
Over the past few decades political processes recognizing and broadening sexual and reproductive rights have produced a reaction from conservative sectors ...
Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana
Report in External Series | Aug 2011
With a focus on the institutional set-up and the political environment as central to understanding and rectifying the poor impact of mining on Ghana’s ...
Political economy, corruption, mining, Ghana, Ghana
To Pay or not to Pay? Citizens' Views on Taxation by Local Authorities in Tanzania
Report in External Series | Jan 2006
Widespread tax evasion reflected in persistent public resistance to pay is seen as part of the problem of raising local government revenues in Tanzania. ...
Taxation, Local government, Tanzania
Bridging Research and Development Assistance. A Review of Danish Research Networks
CMI Report | Jan 2006
Danida has provided financial support to research networks with a view to creating better synergies between research and policy/operations. Six networks ...
Development research, Development aid, Research networks, DANIDA, ENRECA
Trade policy, poverty and inequality in Namibia
Book Chapter | Jan 2001
The analysis shows that trade liberalisation can be expected to lead to higher growth. Namibia conforms to the typical SSA picture of low growth and ...
Trade policy, , Poverty, Africa: Namibia
Assessing the restructuring of SADC - positions, policies and progress
CMI Report | Jan 2001
This study was commissioned by Norad. The Report provides an assessment of the institutional restructuring of SADC and an input to the planning of future ...
Regional integration, Regional co-operation, Southern Africa, SADC, Development assistance, Peace, Democratisation, Security, Water, Power, Trade agreements, Africa: SADC