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Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries

CMI Report | Apr 2018

Executive summary How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires ...

education, life skills, girls, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Tanzania

Socio-economic effects of training programs for refugees. An evaluation of Norwegian Refugee Council's and Norwegian Church Aid's income generating programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Commissioned Report | Jan 1993

(Report 1993:4)

In Tanzania, The Many Costs Of Pay-For-Performance Leave Open To Debate Whether The Strategy Is Cost-Effective

Journal Article | Mar 2015

Pay-for-performance programs in health care are widespread in low- and middle-income countries. However, there are no studies of these programs’ ...

Tanzania

Guide to using corruption measurements and analysis tools for development programming

U4 Guide | Mar 2019

Development practitioners routinely encounter corruption as a key obstacle to achieving their programming objectives. They confront questions such as: ...

Countries in violent conflict and aid strategies: The case of Sri Lanka

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

In countries with an ongoing violent conflict aid donors are confronted by four sets of issues: How the volume and orientation of the program may influence ...

Asia: Sri Lanka

Appraisal - the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights. Program document 2005-2007

Commissioned Report | Jan 2004

Appraisal - the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights. Program document 2005-2007

Cluster Development Programs in Ethiopia: Evidence and Policy Implications

Report in External Series | Jan 2015

Cluster Development Programs in Ethiopia: Evidence and Policy Implications Merima Ali, Olivier Godar

Shady traffic: Part three: Review of the portefolio supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on combating trafficking in human beings

Report in External Series | Feb 2009

As a response to the growing international and national focus on combating human trafficking, Norway developed its first action plan on trafficking for ...

trafficking, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia

Non-formal girls’ life skills programming Implications for policy and practice

Report in External Series | May 2018

Research in developing countries demonstrates the importance of life skills for improving a range of outcomes for adolescent girls. These outcomes include ...

Ethiopia, Lebanon, Tanzania

President Guebuza's own micro-credit program: Development failure and political success

Newspaper Op-Ed | Jun 2010

In 2007, two years after he took power, the President of Mozambique Armando Guebuza launched one of his Presidency’s principal initiatives: The ...

Mozambique

A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of climate change induced displacement

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2020

Place-based resettlement capacity assessments to identify potential resettlement places for climate migrants are needed to guide climate change related ...

climate change, migrants, displacement, livelihoods, resettlement, assets, conditions

Evaluation of agreement between Norwegian Church Aid and Norad for financial support to Haydom Lutheran Hospital

CMI Report | May 2018

Executive summary Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) opened in 1955. HLH is owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT), Mbulu Synod, but ...

Tanzania

We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan women

CMI Report | Dec 2015

Norway has a strong political commitment to promote the rights of women and their participation in public life through its development cooperation programs. ...

Afghanistan

Government's role in cluster development for MSEs: Lessons from Ethiopia

CMI Report | Sep 2012

Cluster development programs have become increasingly widespread tools in fostering innovation and growth of a competitive private sector in developing ...

Micro- and small-scale enterprises, Industrial clusters, Cluster development policies, Ethiopia

Can food-for-work encourage agricultural production?

Journal Article | Dec 2008

Food-for-work (FFW) is the most widely used type of public works program in Ethiopia through which a high share of the food aid is distributed. This paper ...

Food-for-work, , Food aid, , Liquidity constraint, , Fertilizer, , Poverty, , Tigray, , Ethiopia

Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance

Journal Article | Sep 2010

There is increased awareness that success among small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important ...

Tanzania

The New Deal as an anti-corruption tool?

U4 Brief | Aug 2015

New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States provides a framework in which donors and host countries establish shared priorities for reducing fragility, ...

aid, fragile states

On the Way to Good Health? Rural Roads and Morbidity in Upland Orissa

Report in External Series | Oct 2015

This paper investigates the effects of India’s rural roads program (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households drawn from 30 villages in ...

India

Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance

CMI Working Paper | Oct 2009

There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important ...

Microcredit, Small enterprises, Business training, Evaluation, Tanzania, Classification-JEL: C93, I21, J24, O12

Transparency and Accountability in an Electronic Era: The Case of Pharmaceutical Procurements

U4 Brief | May 2008

The burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic means that more labor and financial resources are being dedicated to the procurement of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines ...

corruption, health sector