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The Ethiopian "model family": Primary Health Care Provision in the Developmental state
Project | Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government ...
Ethiopia
Seminar on corruption and anti-corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Project | May - Jun 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has hovered low on governance-related indices for many years. In 2010, the country scored 2.0 out ...
Corruption, anti-corruption, DR Congo
The MUWATIN agreement (phase 4): Development, Security and Democracy in the Palestinian areas
Project | Dec 2007 - Dec 2013
Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, Ramallah/Palestine, and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen/Norway, have ...
Palestine
Managing Modernity. Gender, State and Nation in the Popular Drama of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Project | Jan 1996 - Jan 2002
This Ph.D. project focuses on the various forms of popular culture in Dar es Salam and the role of these new cultural forms in identity- building ...
Why Sudan's Popular Consultation Matters
USIP Special Report | 22 Nov 2010
This report examines Sudan's popular consultation, an ongoing process whereby the people of the Sudanese states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile will democratically and popularly assess the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and determine whether it satisfactorily reflects the aspirations of the people.
Sudan
Guatemala: Violence and Insecurity after the Peace
Event | 19 May 2010
The aim of this seminar is to take stock of the situation in Guatemala regarding poverty, security and indigenous rights and analyze the root causes of the disappointing developments following the signing of the peace accords in 1996.
Guatemala
Ordering the World: Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States
Event | 23 May 2011
How has scholarship on state fragility influenced the policies of influential international actors? Roland Paris, one of the most influential scholars on post-war reconstruction and peacebuilding, challenges the relationship between research and policy.
Diversification or privatisation? Governance in the "Wild East" of Angola
Event | 30 Oct 2013
Rich in diamonds, yet abundant in poverty, Mathias de Alencastro looks at Angola's state-building efforts in the diamond-rich province of Luanda.
Angola
When More is Less: Aiding Statebuilding in Afghanistan
Report in External Series | Jan 2006
Post-war reconstruction sometimes focus on what is commonly called statebuilding, i.e. establishing an effective, central state that operates ...
Post-war reconstruction, State building, Asia: Afghanistan
Democratization of a Dependent State: The Case of Afghanistan
CMI Working Paper | Nov 2007
The post-Taliban democratic reforms in Afghanistan were in part a recreation of the past. Afghanistan has had six constitutions between 1923 ...
Afghanistan
Revenue Authorities and State Capacity in Anglophone Africa
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2008
Since the early 1990s, many countries in Anglophone Africa have established (semi-) autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally ...
Taxation, Tax administration, Privatisation, State capacity, Africa, JEL classification: H10, H29, 020, 038
Non-state actors and democratic consolidation
CMI Working Paper | Mar 2009
This working paper provides a review of the literature addressing the role of civil society or non-state actors in democratic consolidation, ...
Civil society, Democratisation, Democratic consolidation, Malawi
Review of and recommendations for Norwegian support to good governance in Pakistan
Report in External Series | May 2011
The report introduces a theoretical framework for analysis, and then discusses how Pakistan and Norway define governance and good governance ...
good governance, Pakistan
Building Mayan authority and autonomy: The "recovery" of indigenous law in post-peace Guatemala
Journal Article | Jul 2011
Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, ...
The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal
Book | Aug 2013
Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The book discusses ...
Federalism, Poverty, Social indicators, Nepal
The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal
CMI Report | Feb 2013
Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses ...
Federalism, Poverty, Social indicators
Costa Rica’s Anti-Corruption Trajectory: Strengths and Limitations
Report in External Series | Sep 2014
In spite of the economic and social policy successes of Latin America’s longest surviving democracy, corruption has become a major problem ...
corruption, Costa Rica
Revenue mobilization at sub-national levels in Sudan
Sudan Report | Jan 2016
Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...
Sub-national revenue mobilisation, local government, taxation, tax reform, intergovernmental fiscal relations, Sudan
The Battle over abortion rights in Brazil's state arenas, 1995-2006
Journal Article | Jun 2017
This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion ...
Peacemaking, Customary Laws and Institutions in Dārfūr
Sudan Working Paper | Oct 2016
The traditional native justice system in Darfur has an advantage over the modern state judicial one; it has proved its relevance for effectively ...
Institutions, Law, Darfur, Sudan