Can Codes of Conduct set realistic ethical standards for officials? Can training in ethics and professional standards make any practical difference in ...

Join us for an introduction on how to conduct survey experiments in Africa.

Most people are familiar with codes of conduct. Often overlooked, however, is the important role that organisational ethics policies have not only as ...

The Centre fo Development and the Environment (SUM) is an interdisciplinary research centre established with a mandate to conduct, coordinate, and stimulate ...

A baseline survey was conducted in the Hararghe region in Ethiopia in 1989 to identify constraints to agricultural production and environmental protection ...

Education budget work conducted by civil society is a powerful way of holding governments accountable to their citizens, and drawing attention to corruption ...

A unique family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate the economic consequences of having a first-born girl. Women have more children, but we find ...

A recent and relatively successful anti-corruption strategy on value added tax refunds conducted in Bolivia, applied a process flow approach that appears ...

A unique family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate the economic consequences of having a first-born girl. Women get more children, but we find ...

A family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate whether female empowerment leads to more education, in particular for girls. The relative economic ...

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.

This Practice Insight summarises lessons learned from four case studies conducted to examine what bearing the notion of ownership has on anti-corruption ...

Since the 1990s there has been increasing concern in the North about products from the South and the conditions under which they are produced. In least ...

What are the challenges on issues related to corruption and other illegal causes of unfair competition?

This report presents a study of corruption in international markets by exploring the perspectives of Norwegian firms, their challenges, their experiences ...

On 21 November 2005, a referendum on a proposed new constitution was held in Kenya, which was conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner. The poll represented ...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate determinants of child mortality in the regions of Luanda and Uíge in Angola. The country has one of the ...

Background Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention ...

CMI researcher Magnus Hatlebakk has received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for the best article in Journal of Development Studies in 2014.

This is a follow-up to an earlier survey conducted in Maymane district by the Organization for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR) during a two-week ...