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Beyond the code of conduct: Building ethical competence in public officials
U4 Brief | Sep 2009
Can Codes of Conduct set realistic ethical standards for officials? Can training in ethics and professional standards make any practical difference ...
ethics
From a Temporary Emergency Shelter to an Urbanized Neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr
Sudan Working Paper | Aug 2016
Introduction
In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency ...
Khartoum, El-Fasher, IDP camp, Abu Shoak, camp, Sudan, Darfur
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...
women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda
Norwegian Firms and Business Climate Challenges in Brazil
News | 28 Jun 2007
What are the challenges on issues related to corruption and other illegal causes of unfair competition?
Brazil
Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading initiatives
CMI Report | Jan 2003
Since the 1990s there has been increasing concern in the North about products from the South and the conditions under which they are produced. ...
Ethics, Codes of conduct, International trade, Working conditions, Labour standards, Textile industry, Bangladesh, Asia: Bangladesh
Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation
Journal Article | Dec 2018
Background
Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention ...
Malawi, community health workers, malaria
Faryab Survey Comparison of Findings from Maymane, 2006 and 2009
CMI Report | Feb 2009
This is a follow-up to an earlier survey conducted in Maymane district by the Organization for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR) during ...
Afghanistan
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
CMI Brief | Sep 2017
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice.
In 2009, a ...
FGM, female genital mutilation, weak law, law, paper tiger, ARUSS, Sudan
"Women's fight against violence and for justice in northern Sudan"
News | 26 Aug 2011
A scholarship is offered to a master student in social sciences, law or gender studies to conduct fieldwork and write a master thesis on a topic related to gender based violence in northern Sudan.
Sudan
Norwegian aid is wasted
News | 21 Jun 2013
Or isn't it? Do aid efforts to reduce child mortality actually work? Do projects aimed at female empowerment lead to less violence against women?
New projects to CMI
News | 28 Nov 2013
CMI has won a framework agreement with the Norwegian embassy in Tanzania to conduct 7-10 in-depth studies on aid, public finance, natural resources, land and agriculture, macroeconomics the next 4 years.
Survey experiments in Africa. Do's and don'ts.
Event | 4 Mar 2015
Join us for an introduction on how to conduct survey experiments in Africa.
Humanitarian Diplomacy
Project | Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
This project aims to study the policies, practices and impact of humanitarian diplomacy (HD) as conducted by select state actors that are new ...
Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, UAE
Benefit streams from mining in Botswana, Namibia, Mali and Tanzania. Lessons from studies conducted in 2005
Commissioned Report | Nov 2007
The main objective of this brief report is to present the lessons learned and the main findings from six case studies of large scale mining ...
Mining, Botswana, Namibia, Mali, Tanzania
Evaluation of the Centre for Development and Environment (SUM)
Commissioned Report | Jan 2007
The Centre fo Development and the Environment (SUM) is an interdisciplinary research centre established with a mandate to conduct, coordinate, ...
Corruption in international business transactions: The perspective of Norwegian firms
CMI Report | Jan 2004
This report presents a study of corruption in international markets by exploring the perspectives of Norwegian firms, their challenges, their ...
Corruption, Business surveys, International market
Constraints for a conservation-based agricultural development policy in Ethiopia. A baseline study in Fedis Awraja
CMI Report | Jan 1992
A baseline survey was conducted in the Hararghe region in Ethiopia in 1989 to identify constraints to agricultural production and environmental ...
Energy crisis, Environmental protection, Agricultural policy, Women, Ethiopia
Is oil-rich Angola a development success?
Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2012
Ten years after the end of its civil war, Angola, which is heading to the polls Friday, has been transformed into a regional African power with ...
poverty, oil, diversification, Angola
The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state
Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2011
This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from ...
Sudan
Determinants of child mortality in Angola: an econometric analysis
Master's Thesis | Jan 2011
The aim of this thesis is to investigate determinants of child mortality in the regions of Luanda and Uíge in Angola. The country has ...
Child mortality, Angola