Norway and the NGO channel. The case of South Africa Elling N. Tjønneland CMI Working Paper Non-go

Private companies are spending significant resources on social projects in Angola, for the benefit of poor, for general development purposes and for positioning ...

Norway and the NGO Channel: The Case of South Africa Elling N. Tjønneland Reconceptualising NGOs an

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Norway channels a large portion of its development aid budget through Norwegian civil society organisations. This also includes disbursements from Norad’s ...

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.

About five per cent of Norwegian support to civil society organisations is channelled via Norwegian umbrella and network organisations. These organisations ...

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 expanded ...

Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volue examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation ...

The paper analyses the central role played by the Malawian judiciary in the 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections. We argue that the judiciary ...

We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, ...

This paper examines Arab aid flows and aid policies, and contrasts them with the broad picture of Western practice. Most Arab bilateral aid is channelled ...

We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and ...

This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s income ...

This project is a study of the foreign aid that was channelled to transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala from 1995 to 2005. Goals of the ...

Many resource-strapped developing country governments seek international aid, but when that assistance is channeled through domestic civil society, it ...

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 UNDP (2005) ...

The Swedish support to civil society in Mozambique is channelled through the programme AGIR (Programa de Acções para uma Governação Inclusiva e Responsável) ...

Can social rights litigation contribute to more equitable and socially sustainable development outcomes?  This chapter investigates the potential ...

This report assesses the aid that was given in support of transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala between 1995 and 2005. The analysis is ...