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 ...

Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success ...

    Development agencies, by definition, must engage with corruption risk. Working in settings where corruption is engrained ...

Norway channels a large portion of its development aid budget through Norwegian civil society organisations. This also includes disbursements ...

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.

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.

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.

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?

Is aid helping or hurting Africa? Pete Ondeng urges for empowerment of people.

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.

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.

- 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.

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?”

This project is the contribution of a chapter on the changing global aid architecture in edited collection of papers on changing global politics and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poverty reduction in Norwegian aid: Workshop 20 April 1999 commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Econ-report 1999 no. ...

This paper identifies the major environmental issues in Mozambique under the present conditions of war and economic crisis, which differ considerably ...

Aid and conditionality - the role of the bilateral donor. A case study of the Norwegian-Tanzanian a