Background and objectives Most studies on health inequalities use average measures, but describing the distribution of health can also provide ...

Executive summary How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation ...

This paper studies decision making in shifting cultivation, in particular labour inputs, length of rotation or fallow period (intensity of production), ...

Research in developing countries demonstrates the importance of life skills for improving a range of outcomes for adolescent girls. These outcomes ...

Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, ...

Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social ...

How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires learning ...

Introduction In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency ...

In this introductory chapter to the anthology, the editors discuss the meaning of associational life in the context of rapid urbanisation in ...

This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting ...

Democracy is fragile in Bangladesh. The new 2008 government promised change in politics and governance. Professor Rounaq Jahan, from the University of Colombia, explores the challenges faced by the new government.

If the nuclear framework agreement is to be the start of something bigger, the US and other Western countries need a vision beyond the fight against terrorism, argues Walter Posch at the National Defence Academy in Vienna. Recognizing the role of energy security and economy in the region may be key to long-lasting change.

This brief shows that the poor in Angola’s capital Luanda are effectively trapped in poverty through material deficiencies, limited income ...

This report is an evaluation of the conflict transformation programmes of Life and Peace Institute in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

This ethnographically grounded study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics ...

Background: Maximising health as the guiding principle for resource allocation in health has been challenged by concernsabout the distribution ...

In Senegal, school-based sexuality education has evolved over 20 years from family life education (FLE) pilot projects into crosscurricular ...

Young people between the ages of 10 and 19 make up 23% of Pakistan’s population. In Pakistan, young people face many challenges in terms ...

Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. ...

Kabul – September 2016.  The Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)-Norway and Peace Training and Research Organisation (PTRO) have been ...