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Increasing local ownership, reducing administrative costs
News | 27 Oct 2014
A new report concludes that Norwegian umbrella and network organisations are effective in building capacity in the South, but are cost-inefficient and have poor systems for monitoring and evaluations. Researchers recommend a channeling of more funds to funding mechanisms for civil society in the South rather than leaning on umbrella and network organisations in Norway.
Added costs. Added value? Evaluation of Norwegian support through and to umbrella and network organisations in civil society
Report in External Series | Dec 2014
About five per cent of Norwegian support to civil society organisations is channelled via Norwegian umbrella and network organisations. These ...
Nepal, Norway, Tanzania
Media and Politics in the Middle East
Project | May - Dec 2010
This study deals with Arab media and its role in the shaping the public sphere in Arab society.
The satellitisation of Arab TV-channels has ...
Social Funds in Angola - Channels, Amounts and Impact
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2008
Private companies are spending significant resources on social projects in Angola, for the benefit of poor, for general development purposes ...
Angola, Social Funds, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Politics
Petroleum fund in Tanzania? Other alternatives may be better
CMI Brief | Jul 2016
The Government of Tanzania is looking for the best policies and institutional designs to turn future petroleum revenues into welfare, development ...
Fiscal policy, Extractive industries, Resource curse, Sovereign wealth fund, Tanzania
Strengthening civil society in developing countries? Development aid and Norwegian organisations
CMI Brief | Jan 2018
Norway channels a large portion of its development aid budget through Norwegian civil society organisations. This also includes disbursements ...
Development aid, Norwegian civil society organisations, Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda
Cross-border trade in the war areas of the Sudans: Smuggling or a form of cooperation?
Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2016
After the war broke out again in the border areas between the Sudans, a trading pattern known earlier as the “peace markets” reemerged. ...
war, Border, Coping mechanisms, markets, Sumbuk, trade, Livelihoods, Sudan, South Sudan, Southern Kordofan State
The UN and international organisations as channels for Danish humanitarian assistance 1992-1998
Report in External Series | Jan 1999
(Commissioned by DANIDA. Limited circulation)
Norway and the NGO channel. The case of South Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004
Norway and the NGO channel. The case of South Africa Elling N. Tjønneland CMI Working Paper Non-go
Non-governmental organisations, Development aid, Norway, South Africa
Norway and the NGO Channel: The Case of South Africa
Book Chapter | Dec 2007
Norway and the NGO Channel: The Case of South Africa Elling N. Tjønneland Reconceptualising NGOs an
NGOs, Aid, cicil society, , Norway, South Africa
The Role of the Judiciary in the 2004 General Elections in Malawi
Journal Article | Jan 2006
The paper analyses the central role played by the Malawian judiciary in the 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections. We argue that the ...
Elections, Africa: Malawi
Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies. An Institutional Voice for the Poor?
Edited Book | Jan 2006
Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volue examines the role of courts as a channel for social ...
courts, social transformation, access to justice, poverty
Working with Gender in Rural Afghanistan: Experiences from Norwegian-funded NGO projects
Report in External Series | Nov 2014
Gender equality and women’s rights is a key priority for Norway’s foreign and development policy in general and in Afghanistan in ...
Gender, development assistance, rural development, Afghanistan
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, ...
Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels
Journal Article | Apr 2018
We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household ...
Jobs, employment, poverty, food security, empowerment, , Ethiopia
Maintaining the Process? Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Report in External Series | Nov 2007
This report assesses the aid that was given in support of transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala between 1995 and 2005. The ...
transitional justice, criminal courts, truth commissions, traditional justice mechanisms, reparations, security sector reform, aid, peacebuilding, development, Rwanda, Guatemala
Labor-intensive jobs for women and development: Intrahousehold welfare effects and its transmission channels
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2015
We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. ...
salaried employment, wage labor, gender, bargaining, consumption, poverty, hunger
Mobility, Entitlement and Perceptions of Inequality
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2017
This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s ...
inequality, income, family, effort, mobility, entitlement, Chhattisgarh, India
Has recent political unrest affected garment exports from Bangladesh?
CMI Report | Jan 2018
According to the World Bank, political unrest in Bangladesh in the first part of 2015 resulted in a loss of 1% of GDP.[1] A previous study by ...
Garment exports, Trade channels, , Bangladesh
[FCG(SIDA)-Mid-term Evaluation of Swedish government funded Civil Society ]
Project | Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
The Swedish support to civil society in Mozambique is channelled through the programme AGIR (Programa de Acções para uma Governação Inclusiva ...
Civil Society, Evaluation, Mozambique