Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Document Types "Report"
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Ebola and corruption: Overcoming critical governance challenges in a crisis situation
(U4 Brief 2015:1, Report, 2015-01-01)Since the end of 2013, the Ebola virus disease has been ravaging the economies and societies of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea-Conakry, infecting over 20,000 people by the end of 2014. The disease also spread to Nigeria, ... -
Ebola outbreak 2014-2016: Effects on other health services
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Economic growth in Angola to 2017: The main challenges
(Angola Brief vol. 2 no. 4, Report, 2012-12-11)This article argues that Angola’s “golden age” of tremendous post-war growth (2002-2008) has come to an end. Growth will at best be at a much lower level. Given the rapid population growth, annual gains in GDP per capita ... -
Educación sin corrupción en el Perú: Lecciones de una intervención combinada entre el estado y la sociedad civil
(U4 Brief 2008:21, Report, 2008-08-08)En este texto se presenta una reciente experiencia anticorrupción en el sector educativo del Perú, llevada a cabo por una alianza entre la Defensoría del Pueblo y el capítulo peruano de Transparencia Internacional, Proética. ... -
Egypt's constitutional cul-de-sac: Enabling military oversight and a security state in a nominally democratic order
(CMI Insight 2014:1, Report, 2014-04-02)Egyptians began 2014 being summoned back to the polls for the third time in three years on a constitutional matter. This time, as in the past two polls (and indeed, all such balloting in Egyptian history), the people gave ... -
El humanitarismo: Una breve reseña
(CMI Insight 2021:04, Report, 2021-06-01)Este resumen analiza brevemente cuatro ámbitos cruciales del humanitarismo contemporáneo: la diplomacia humanitaria, la educación en situaciones de emergencia, el concepto de sociedad civil en el humanitarismo y las fronteras ... -
El poder de la información: Mejorando la transparencia en el sector educación de Sierra Leona
(U4 Brief 2009:11, Report, 2009-07-14)La mejor defensa contra la corrupción son las cifras y los datos fidedignos. Un Sistema de Información sobre la Gestión Educativa que funcione de forma eficaz puede señalar transgresiones dentro de ámbitos tales como el ... -
Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects
(U4 Brief 2008:11, Report, 2008-05-02)Donor funding has fuelled a vast increase in service delivery, medical research and clinical trials throughout the developing world. Yet, there is a dark side to this badly needed influx of funding: with pressures to spend ... -
Encuestas de Seguimiento del Gasto Público: Lecciones de Tanzania
(U4 Brief 2009:9, Report, 2009-07-14)Si bien la exitosa ejecución de la Encuesta de Seguimiento del Gasto Público (PETS, por sus siglas en inglés) en Uganda ha sido y continúa siendo objeto de mucha atención, poco se ha dicho de las lecciones de PETS en otros ... -
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
(CMI Insight 2016:4, Report, 2016-05-01)Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization to non-criminalization in the legal ... -
Enforcement of water rights
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9, Report, 2016-05-01)In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved the ability of poor and marginalized people to secure access to water? Of the ... -
Enrolling the local: Community-based anti-corruption efforts and institutional capture
(Report, 2021-02-01)This Brief examines community-based anti-corruption efforts in natural resource management in order to better understand their rationales, potentialities, and challenges—especially complications posed by the intersection ... -
Enseigner l'éthique dans les sociétés fortement corrompues: préoccupations et opportunités
(U4 Brief 2011:7, Report, 2011-08-30)Cette note de synthèse U4 explore les raisons pour lesquelles une approche traditionnelle de l’enseignement de l’éthique n’est pas adaptée aux sociétés fortement corrompues, et met en exergue des éléments clés concernant ... -
Espaço Urbano e Pobreza em Maputo, Moçambique
(CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 2, Report, 2013-06-01)Este é o primeiro de uma série de sínteses sobre políticas relacionadas com um projecto de investigação, “A Etnografia de uma Cidade Dividida: Socio-política, Pobreza e Género em Maputo, Moçambique” (2012–2015), financiado ... -
Everyday humanitarian diplomacy: Experiences from border areas
(CMI Brief no. 2020:2, Report, 2020-02-01)The term humanitarian diplomacy (HD) emerged in early 2000s. HD recognises the role of humanitarian actors when negotiating access, assistance and protection for civilians in situations of extreme insecurity and armed ... -
Evolving anti-corruption practice in rebuilding Ukraine: The Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development
(U4 Brief 2024:1, Report, 2024-02-01)Under the pressure and constraints of an ongoing war and eager to work towards EU accession, the Ukrainian government has undertaken rapid efforts in 2023 to mainstream anti-corruption efforts into its reconstruction framework. -
Excluding women: the clanization of Somali political institutions
(CMI Brief no. 2020:9, Report, 2020-07-01)Hawa Jibril, a poetess and a long-time activist for Somali women’s rights, identified male elders as a barrier to women’s inclusion in the politics and governance of their society. In her 1962 poem, ‘the ... -
Expanding foreign investment in the energy sector: Challenges and risks for Bangladesh?
(CMI Brief vol. 13 no. 4, Report, 2014-04-22)Our recent research indicates that increased corruption brings increased foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industries. Moreover, corruption has no effect on FDI in the energy provision industries. This brief ... -
Exploring the links between UNCAC and the Paris Declaration
(U4 Brief 2009:25, Report, 2009-10-20)It is acknowledged by donors that the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) should play a central role in country-level dialogue, implementation, and monitoring of anti-corruption work. At the same time, when supporting ... -
Faire face à la corruption en éducation : faire progresser des pratiques de responsabilisation grâce au suivi budgétaire.
(U4 Brief 2009:17, Report, 2009-08-13)Le travail sur le budget de l’éducation effectué par la société civile est un instrument puissant permettant de rendre les gouvernements comptables vis-à-vis de leurs citoyens et d’attirer l’attention sur la corruption ...