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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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

What's the catch? Considering an EITI for fisheries

U4 Brief | Dec 2011

Lack of transparency in commercial fisheries has been a longstanding issue for those working to promote small-scale fishers’ rights in developing ...

natural resource management, corruption, marine fisheries, transparency

Human rights-based approaches to development: Concepts, evidence, and policy

Journal Article | Oct 2012

This article aims to organize thinking around human rights-based approaches to development (HRBAs) and to review available empirical evidence regarding ...

human rights, development, courts