Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Document Types "Report"

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    • Corona and food security in poor countries 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Brief no. 2020:04, Report, 2020-05-01)

    • Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Brief, Report, 2007-01-01)
      The question of corporate responsibility in poor and undemocratic countries, has been addressed by a CMI strategic institute programme (SIP) entitled "Business ethics for multinational corporations in developing countries". ...

    • Corruption and Commercial Fisheries in Africa 

      Standing, André (U4 Brief 2008:23, Report, 2008-12-05)
      Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence on revenues and investments from foreign countries, as well as ...

    • Corruption and doing business in Serbia 

      Devine, Vera (U4 Brief 2007:11, Report, 2007-10-09)
      Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up 99% of Serbian companies, employing 53% of the working population, this is ...

    • Corruption and Forest Revenues in Papua 

      Setiono, Bambang (U4 Brief 2008:18, Report, 2008-06-05)
      Under a sustainable, well-managed, logging regime, Papua - the most densely forested part of Indonesia - can potentially contribute substantial forest revenues for socio-economic development. Yet, it remains the poorest ...

    • Corruption and Fraud in International Aid Projects 

      Kramer, Michael (U4 Brief 2007:4, Report, 2007-10-05)
      By probing projects in many different sectors and differing contexts it has been possible to find some striking similarities in terms of how fraud is taking place. This brief describes corruption and fraud schemes encountered ...

    • Corruption and REDD+: Identifying risks amid complexity 

      Standing, André (U4 Brief 2012:2, Report, 2012-05-10)
      Corruption and other factors can influence deforestation in contradictory ways. For the purpose of country-level implementation of REDD+, donors should focus particularly on three corruption risk areas: land grabbing and ...

    • Corruption definitions and their implications for targeting natural resource corruption 

      Williams, David Aled (Report, 2021-08-01)
      This Brief addresses how understandings of corruption have changed over time, particularly focusing on the practical implications of definitions for how we address corruption. It provides conservation and NRM practitioners ...

    • Corruption et REDD+ : Identifier les risques dans une situation complexe 

      Standing, André (U4 Brief 2012:4, Report, 2012-06-15)
      La corruption et différents facteurs peuvent exercer une influence à double tranchant sur la déforestation. Dans le cadre des procédures nationales de mise en oeuvre de l’initiative REDD+, les donateurs devraient se ...

    • Corruption et revenus forestiers en Papouasie indonésienne 

      Setiono, Bambang (U4 Brief 2009:22, Report, 2009-10-14)
      Sous l’impulsion d’un régime d’abattage durable et bien géré, la Papouasie – parée de la plus dense couverture forestière de l’Indonésie – aurait le potentiel de consacrer de larges revenus forestiers à son développement ...

    • Corruption in Emergencies: What Role for Media? 

      Mortensen, Gemma (U4 Brief 2006:2, Report, 2006-01-01)
      This brief is based on the discussion and recommendations that emerged from a meeting of aid agencies, donors and media experts convened by U4 and NORAD in May 2006. For a more comprehensive report of the meeting, along ...

    • Corruption in land administration: Roles for donors to minimise the problem 

      Wren-Lewis, Liam (U4 Brief 2013:1, Report, 2013-03-15)
      Land issues have been rising up the agenda of policy makers due to rapid urbanisation and high food prices. Yet, land administration is one of the most corrupt government activities. How should international donors respond? ...

    • Corruption in Natural Resource Management - An Introduction 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Søreide, Tina; Williams, Aled (U4 Brief 2008:2, Report, 2008-02-01)
      Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed with natural resources, these contexts pose a particular challenge ...

    • Corruption risks and experiences in REDD+ financial benefit sharing mechanisms 

      Dupuy, Kendra (U4 Brief 2014:11, Report, 2014-12-10)
      The success of REDD+ hinges on providing forest users with positive monetary and nonmonetary incentives or benefits that both motivate behavioral change regarding forest use and help offset the various costs associated ...

    • Corruption-free Education. Lessons from a State- and Civil Society Joint Initiative in Peru 

      Castilla, Samuel Rotta (U4 Brief 2008:6, Report, 2008-03-01)
      A recent anti-corruption initiative targeting Peru's education sector was undertaken jointly by the Office of the Ombudsman and Transparency International's chapter in Peru, Proética. The initiative sought to help shape ...

    • Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa 

      Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise; Tønnessen, Liv; Wang, Vibeke (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 8, Report, 2017-11-01)
      Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. Why does counter-mobilization arise ...

    • COVID-19 and the urgent need to protect Sudanese women against violence 

      al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (Report, 2020-07-01)
      Three decades of Islamist rule institutionalized a culture of violence against women in Sudan. The COVID-19 pandemic and state instructed lockdown has led to an acute situation for many Sudanese women suffering domestic ...

    • Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan: A never ending story? 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Insight 2016:1, Report, 2016-01-01)
      Women inside and outside of the Sudanese government were deeply concerned about the high prevalence rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) after decades of efforts to eradicate the practice. Criminalization of FGM emerged ...

    • Crisis at South Africa’s universities – what are the implications for future cooperation with Norway? 

      Tjønneland, Elling N. (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 3, Report, 2017-03-01)
      South Africa’s universities have witnessed unprecedented student revolts over the past two years. It began as protests against a rise in tuition fees and calls for removals of symbols of the apartheid past. It rapidly ...

    • Curbing Women Activists in Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal Court 

      Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Insight 2015:5, Report, 2015-01-01)
      In 2009, the international criminal court (ICC) warranted the arrest of Sudan’s sitting President indicting him for systematic and widespread sexual violence in Darfur. In the wake of the ICC, the Sudanese regime has curbed ...