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The resource bites back: Entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife crime
U4 Issue | Nov 2016
Corruption has recently risen up the global wildlife conservation agenda with a series of international agreements highlighting the role of ...
natural resource management
Besteuerung und Kapitalflucht aus Afrika: Die Steuervermeidungsindustrie [The tax avoidance industry: facilitators of capital flight from Africa]
Newspaper Op-Ed | Sep 2018
To combat the global problems of tax evasion, corruption and money laundering, it is vital to understand the essential role tax havens play ...
Tax havens, capital flight, illicit capital flows, tax evasion, wealth managers, Big Four, Africa
Combating Corruption in the Revenue Service: The Case of VAT Refunds in Bolivia
U4 Brief | May 2008
A recent and relatively successful anti-corruption strategy on value added tax refunds conducted in Bolivia, applied a process flow approach ...
Corruption, revenue administration, public financial management, public financial management and procurement, Bolivia
Revenue administration and corruption
U4 Issue | Jan 2005
The aim of this U4 Issue paper is to identify and discuss major challenges, appropriate responses, and relevant tools for addressing corruption ...
Corruption, public financial management and procurement, World
The ‘Joyce Banda Effect’: Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in Malawi
CMI Brief | Apr 2016
In the 2014 elections in Malawi, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency, and the number of women MPs was reduced from ...
voting, election, gender, Malawi
The Strømme Foundation. An organisational review
Report in External Series | Aug 2014
The report provides an organisational review of the Norwegian NGO the Strømme Foundation. The focus is on is on assessing the organisational ...
NGOs, civil society, development aid, organisational performance, financial management, Sri Lanka, Uganda
SUGAR project in Uganda & STAAC project in Ghana
Project | Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
SUGAR in Uganda
DFID has initiated a new programme, called Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-Corruption and Accountability Regime (SUGAR). ...
Anti-corruption, real-time evaluation, PDIA, Developmental Evaluation, institutional transformation, collective action, innovation, Uganda, Ghana
Flammable societies?
News | 24 Jan 2012
Despite the discovery of oil and gas, most countries rich in natural resources are still economically troubled and conflict-ridden. -Resources are not only tied to financial value, but also to social identity and cosmology. Current explanations of the resource curse fail to consider historical grievances and the significance of social territorialism, says John-Andrew McNeish in his newly published book Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas.
Going beyond impact evaluation: Performance-Based Financing of Health Care Provision in Low-Income Countries
Event | 13 Jun 2013
The workshop made real progress in the dialogue between researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The priorities for research were made clearer. Read reports and summaries from the participants.
Planning the new 'Natural Resources Management Programme' in Tanzania
Project | Feb - May 2007
Norway has been supporting the development of natural resources management in Tanzania since the 1970s, focusing on fisheries, forestry, wildlife ...
Natural resources, governance, Tanzania
Peacebuilding in Africa
Event | 22 Mar 2006
The founder and executive director of ACCORD, Mr Vasu Gounden, and the programme manager of ACCORD's peace and security unit, Mr Kwezi Mngqibiza, is visiting CMI on March 21 and 22. Their seminar presentation will focus on Africa: Destination for Conflict Resolution or Investment? and the African Union and Conflict Management: Lessons Learnt
Norwegian Refugee Council: Durable Management for Durable Solutions
News | 16 Apr 2007
NRC is very efficient, professional and creative when it comes to implementation of
projects and emergency response. But the management routines and coordination
need to be improved.
DRC, Colombia
Development aid: A blind spot for EU anti-corruption efforts
News | 10 Jul 2015
The European Union needs to develop a coherent strategy and invest in tackling corruption outside its own neighbourhood.
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Report in External Series | May 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
Child rights, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Report in External Series | Feb 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
child rights, civil society, mainstreaming, targeting, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Effects of Payment for Performance on accountability mechanisms: Evidence from Pwani, Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2017
Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability ...
P4P, RBF, Health, Tanzania
Civil society’s role in petroleum sector governance: The case of Tanzania
CMI Brief | May 2019
Good governance in the management of natural resources is now recognized by scholars and policy makers as key to ensuring that countries can ...
Tanzania
Evaluation of the implementation and long-term impact of performance based financing of health services
Project | Aug 2014 - Aug 2019
Results-based financing has been launched as a strategy to increase the use and improve the quality of health services in low- and middle-income ...
Tanzania, P4P, results based financing, public health, motivation
Good tax governance in Africa
Commissioned Report | Jan 2010
Good Tax Governance (GTG) and more effective tax systems are central for sustainable development because they can: (i) mobilise the domestic ...
Taxation, governance
Responding to the challenges of supreme audit institutions: Can legislatures and civil society help?
U4 Issue | Feb 2009
The gaps between approved budgets and the realisation of policy and development goals stand among key governance challenges in many developing ...
Supreme Audit Institution, external audit, financial audit, compliance audit, performance audit, audit, public resources, accountability, public financial management and procurement