Evaluation of the Norwegian research program "Health and Population in Developing Countries" at the universities of Bergen and Oslo, funded by the Research ...

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

Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås Wor

This report presents the findings of a mid-term review of the Agricultural Research and Development Programme (ARDEP) based at Bunda College of Agriculture ...

There are several different options for the design of REDD+ at the national level, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses in terms of feasibility ...

Electoral System Design and the Effects on Representation and Regionalization in Malawi 1994-2004.

The world is rapidly urbanising, and urban informality is a central feature of our times. Conventional thinking views informality as corrosive to clean ...

Aid for Human Rights and Democracy: Challenges of Design, Management and Evaluation Gunnar M. Sørb

Globally designed accountability and local social inequality. A case study of two maternal deaths in

This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies ...

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a major international effort to disclose information about extractive activities. Having an explicit ...

This chapter discusses the difficulties aid agencies encounter when entering the comparatively new and sensitive field of human rights and democracy support. ...

Multi-million dollar water infrastructure projects carry some of the largest corruption risks in the sector linked to the procurement of civil works and ...

Most anti-corruption initiatives fail. This Brief sets out to understand why that is, and what might be done about it. Anti-corruption initiatives ...

Despite broad international attention to corruption and its consequences, the crime continues to be a problem throughout the globe. Senior researcher at CMI and former Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC) advisor at the World Bank, Tina Søreide, will present some explanations for the lack of anti-corruption progress, with a focus on policy design, legal grey-zones and political agendas.

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an ...

Uganda's new anti-homosexuality law has disheartened the international human rights community. Would it have been possible to foresee Museveni's approval of the law? In an ideal world, actors promoting human rights can design projects and interventions and see them through with norms and laws in mind. In the real world, where politics and erratic decisions come into play, human rights work is extremely challenging.

How does corruption affect the appropriateness and design of budget support? The aim of this issue paper is to compare the effectiveness of budget support ...

Research on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) has grown rapidly over the last decade. This article consolidates existing social science research ...