We study an effective intervention into a specific form of bonded labor. The intervention led to a shift in agrarian contracts, from bonded labor to sharecropping. ...

This paper outlines the landscape of development interventions in South Kordofanbetween the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 ...

Development interventions and pastoral dynamics in Southern Ethiopia Johan Helland Pastoralists, et

Twelve hours a day, 7 days a week, there are 150 million children below the age of 15 working to make the clothes we wear, the carpets on our floors and ...

Election Funding and Donor Interventions Arne Tostensen and Rafiq Hajat The Malawi 2014 Tripartite

Building a repressive peace: The case of post-genocide Rwanda Ingrid Samset Journal of Intervention

Violent conflict and intervention Astri Suhrke, Torunn Wimpelmann, Ingrid Samset Politics in the Dev

The critique of the Liberal Peace is based on the assumption that Western countries attempt to impose ‘their’ values and models on war-torn ...

Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by ...

Thematic Review of Special Interventions in Support of Human Rights and Democratisation: Desk Revie

Thematic Review of Special Interventions in Support of Human Rights and Democratisation: Synthesis

Corruption poses a serious threat to sustainable development and security. Donors spend large sums in support of interventions to reduce corruption and ensure that their funds are used for the intended purposes. Yet, despite these investments, the causes of corruption are better understood than how to most effectively reduce corruption.

Child marriage is legal, and accepted, throughout Sudan and the country has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. This brief examines ...

Why do 'integrity building' interventions in development settings rarely induce governance practices that are consistent with the standards set out in ...

This paper charts the current evidence on effectiveness of different anti-corruption reforms, and identifies significant evidence gaps. Despite a substantial ...

Governments and donor agencies are under increasing pressure to show hard evidence that their interventions are effective and good value for money. Anti-corruption ...

A new paradigm for post-conflict donor intervention was put at test in Afghanistan: adjusting to complex political, military and economic imperatives. ...

Early pregnancies are generally associated with negative effects on women’shealth and education (Goldin & Katz 2002; Rasul 2008), as well as theireconomic ...

This report addresses governance issues in post-war situations as these are dealt with in three sets of literature: - the growing case-based knowledge ...

Some donor interventions, like supporting public financial management, seem to help combat corruption. Others are ineffective. This opinion article ...