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Why can we not demonstrate the difference that Norwegian aid makes? An evaluation of the results measurement system and practice
Journal Article | Mar 2016
We assess why the Norwegian aid administration is not able to document its results. We find that the system is not designed to provide the necessary ...
Evaluation, foreign aid, methods, review, monitoring, M&E systems
The Politics of Humanitarianism. Power, Ideology and Aid
Edited Book | Jan 2016
Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success ...
Why is corruption risk management so hard? Assessing current practices in development aid
U4 Brief | May 2016
Development agencies, by definition, must engage with corruption risk. Working in settings where corruption is engrained ...
anti-corruption, corruption risk management, donor policies, integrity in aid, OECD
Strengthening civil society in developing countries? Development aid and Norwegian organisations
CMI Brief | Jan 2018
Norway channels a large portion of its development aid budget through Norwegian civil society organisations. This also includes disbursements ...
Development aid, Norwegian civil society organisations, Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda
Evaluation of Aid to Afghanistan
News | 31 Jan 2005
CMI has won a key joint-donor evaluation to assess post-Taliban humanitarian and reconstruction aid. The Danish Minsity of Foreign Affairs leads the evaluation on behalf of Sweden, U.K, Ireland and the Netherlands. CMI's Afghanistan expert Arne Strand will be team leader.
Bergen Seminar in Development Economics
Event | 8 May 2014
Robert Lensink (Groningen) and Carol Newman (Dublin) are visiting CMI for the spring Bergen seminar in development economics. There will be papers on son-preference in South-Asia, technology transfers and foreign investments in Vietnam, the role of IMF for foreign aid flows, and on financial literacy in rural Rwanda.
Ethnographies of Aid and Development
Event | 31 May 2007
The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources, argues Dr. David Lewis from the London School of Economics.
The ethics of priority setting in global health
Event | 2 Nov 2011
Maternal and child health is prioritized in most countries. This leads us to give less priority to the treatment of chronic diseases in adults, such as AIDS. What is the basis for such priorities?
Ethiopia, India
African leadership for African development
Event | 18 Jun 2013
Is aid helping or hurting Africa? Pete Ondeng urges for empowerment of people.
Rettferdighet og bistand
Event | 28 Jan 2014
Er vestlig bistand på ville veier? I sin nye bok 'Western Aid at a Crossroads - the End of Paternalism' argumenterer Øyvind Eggen og Kjell Roland for at vestlig bistand har mistet bakkekontakt.
Promoting human rights in ever changing contexts
News | 31 Mar 2014
Uganda's new anti-homosexuality law has disheartened the international human rights community. Would it have been possible to foresee Museveni's approval of the law? In an ideal world, actors promoting human rights can design projects and interventions and see them through with norms and laws in mind. In the real world, where politics and erratic decisions come into play, human rights work is extremely challenging.
Natural Resource Management: The importance of good policy makers
News | 30 Jun 2014
- Policy makers and their decisions matter much more than a supposed resource curse, says Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. As East Africa booms with oil, he urges international actors and donors to repoliticise the international reform and financial agenda.
Evaluationprize to CMI
News | 29 Sep 2014
During the annual evaluation conference which was arranged by CMI in Bergen, the first Evaluationprize was announced. CMI and ITAD won the prize for an evaluation of Norwegian “Can We Demonstrate the Difference that Norwegian Aid Makes?”
Changing global politics and implications for Norwegian foreign policy - the case of development aid
Project | Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
This project is the contribution of a chapter on the changing global aid architecture in edited collection of papers on changing global politics and ...
Foreign policy, development aid, global aid architecture, Norway
Impact Assessment of Norwegian Development Aid to Rukwa Region, Tanzania
Project | May 2007 - Sep 2008
Norwegian aid to Rukwa Region started in 1979 with the planning of a water supply programme aiming at covering most villages and towns. In 1986, ...
Development aid, Rural development, Aid effectiveness, Tanzania
A review of Norwegian evaluations
Project | Mar - Dec 2007
The Norad strategy announces the decision to prepare an annual report on the results of Norwegian foreign aid, a report that is due in late ...
Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS in African countries
Project | Jan - Aug 2001
The present decade will be the worst ever with regard to AIDS morbidity and mortality in Africa. The exception is Uganda, which was early at ...
Norway's policies on poverty reduction and development aid
Commissioned Report | Jan 1999
Poverty reduction in Norwegian aid: Workshop 20 April 1999 commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Econ-report 1999 no. ...
Norwegian aid and the environment in Mozabique. The issues
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
This paper identifies the major environmental issues in Mozambique under the present conditions of war and economic crisis, which differ considerably ...
Environmental problems, Development aid, Mozambique, Africa: Mozambique
Aid and conditionality - the role of the bilateral donor. A case study of the Norwegian-Tanzanian aid relationship
Commissioned Report | Jan 1999
Aid and conditionality - the role of the bilateral donor. A case study of the Norwegian-Tanzanian a