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Civil society and peace building in Sudan: A critical look
Sudan Working Paper | May 2016
Abstract
The role of civil society organizations in peace making and peace building is often valorized, especially in countries that witness protracted ...
peace, society, organizations, civil society, Sudan
The global participation backlash: Implications for natural resource initiatives
U4 Brief | Jun 2017
Civil society organizations can help to ensure good governance over natural resources as members of global multi-stakeholder initiatives like the Extractive ...
natural resource management
Evaluation of Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) and UNEP as Implementing Organization
Commissioned Report | Nov 2020
Evaluation of Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) and UNEP as Implementing Organization Kari Tell
Politics, adminstration and agricultural development. The case of Botswana's Accelcerated Rainfed Arable Programme
CMI Report | Jan 1992
This is a case study of a large programme for arable faring in Botswana from 1985 to 1990. The focus is upon the organization of the programme. The study ...
Agricultural policy, Public administration, Modernization, Organization theory, Botswana
Per diem policy analysis toolkit
U4 Issue | Dec 2012
Most organizations use per diems as a way to reimburse out-of-pocket expenses for travel and to encourage staff to attend professional development activities. ...
health, per diem, abuse of per diem, wages, human resource management, motivation, incentives, control, travel, fraud
Sustainable peacebuilding: The role of non-governmental organizations and researchers
Book Chapter | Dec 2010
Sustainable Diplomacies looks at how to create conditions for the reconciliation of rival ways of living, the formation of durable relationships and the ...
Protection of Civilians – Norway in the Security Council
CMI Report | Feb 2021
This report summarizes a policy seminar organized by the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies in December 2020. It briefly points out some of the ...
How can Aid for Trade promote poverty reduction
Project | Dec 2007 - Mar 2008
Does a regional organization like SADC has any comparative advantages in implementing Aid for Trade measures? Many constraints for increasing trade are ...
Aid for trade, Poverty, SADC
Review of Bistandsnemda's (Norwegian Missions in Development) Work with Indigenous Peoples
CMI Report | Jan 2007
Spanish version
As part of Norway's efforts to strengthen its cooperation with indigenous peoples a set of Guidelines were published by the Norwegian ...
Bistandsnemda, Indigenous peoples, Rights, Development aid, Guidelines, Bolivia, Paraguay, Bangladesh
Leaving Them to It? Women's Rights in Transitioning Afghanistan
Report in External Series | May 2014
Donors, Western publics and Afghan activists and their local allies should recognize that external support cannot in any way compensate for local political ...
Afghanistan
In the business of peace: the political influence of private military and security companies on UN peacekeeping
Journal Article | Jan 2013
Private military and security companies increasingly perform services for the UN. The article describes how these companies are used by the UN organization ...
The Financial Action Task Force: An introduction
U4 Brief | Jan 2015
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is a Paris-based intergovernmental organization that was founded with the objective of promoting effective implementation ...
international drivers of corruption
When Do Donor Endorsements Help or Hurt? Policy Advocacy and Men's Interests in Malawi
Report in External Series | Jun 2018
Development organizations seek to improve support for gender reforms, especially among populations who might undermine implementation. Yet, little is ...
Complaints mechanisms in health organizations
U4 Brief | Oct 2013
Strategies to increase transparency and accountability often include complaints mechanisms by which organisations can respond to individual suspicions ...
health, India
Hands Off My Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries
Journal Article | Mar 2016
Many resource-strapped developing country governments seek international aid, but when that assistance is channeled through domestic civil society, it ...
Elite Capture of Kabul Bank
Book Chapter | Mar 2014
Afghanistan is entering the most critical period since the overthrow of Taliban back in 2001. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced ...
Corruption, Banking Sector, Aid, Fragile States, Afghanistan
Administrative and political grassroots corruption in rural Kenya: it takes two to tango
Master's Thesis | Jun 2012
Administrative and political grassroots corruption in rural Kenya: it takes two to tango Onyango G
Public administration, Corruption, Kenya
Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean c. 1880-1940. Ripples of Reform
Book | Sep 2014
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned ...
Islam, Sufism, East Africa, Indian Ocean, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, Yemen
Research priorities on ending child marriage and supporting married girls
Journal Article | Sep 2015
Over the past few years the issue of child marriage has received growing political and programmatic attention. In spite of some progress in a number of ...
child marriage, early marriage, adolescents
Vulnerable populations and the right to health: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon around tuberculosis control
Journal Article | Jun 2019
In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the “End TB Strategy”, setting new ambitious goals for elimination of tuberculosis (TB). ...
Perú