• Eneweyay (Let's Discuss). Report from a training programme for democracy in rural Ethiopia 

      Pausewang, Siegfried (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      Report of a project to teach principles of democracy in a "down-to-earth" way, through discussions with rural and urban people in Ethiopia. The "Ecumenical Training Initiative for Democracy" developed before the elections ...
    • Enforcement of water rights 

      Côrtes, Lara; Gianella, Camila; Wilson, Bruce (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 ...
    • Enhancing Public Service Ethics in Bangladesh: Dilemmas and Deterrents 

      Kim, Pan-Suk; Monem, Mobasser; Baniamin, Hasan Muhammad (Journal article, 2014-05-01)
      There may be many factors that diminish or destroy trust in governmental institutions. However, none may destroy trust easier or faster than unethical behavior or blatant corruption by public officials. Bangladesh is rated ...
    • Enough food is not enough - Litigation as a strategy to secure the right to food 

      Brandt, Lene Chr. M. (Master thesis, 2011-10-28)
      This thesis aims to investigate the conditions for legal enforcement of the right to food in Guatemala. In recent years there has been an increase in the phenomenon of protecting social rights through the legal opportunity ...
    • Enrolling the local: Community-based anti-corruption efforts and institutional capture 

      Klein, Brian; Zhu, Annah; Pardo-Herrera, Camilo; Mullard, Saul (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 

      Whitton, Howard (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 ...
    • Entangled Biographies: Rebuilding a Sasak House 

      Telle, Kari (Ethnos vol. 72 June 2007 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-01-01)
      The concept of ‘compatibility' has a particular salience in many Indonesian societies. This article examines ‘compatibility' with reference to person-house relationships on the island of Lombok. Examining a case where ...
    • Enterprise in the Undergrowth: Exploring the Ways Chinese Companies Operate in the Dja Forest in Cameroon 

      Mayers, James; Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel; Zhou, Hang (African Study Monographs vol. 43, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-01)
    • Entre loi et coutumes. L'interconnexion normative dans les cours de justice de Kaboul 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Diogène vol. 239-240, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)
      Le système juridique afghan est formé de pratiques coutumiè-res, de principes de la shari‘a, de lois promulguées par l’État et denormes internationales. Cet arsenal a généralement été étudié enprêtant une attention ...
    • Environment, society and the state in southwestern Eritrea 

      Naty, Alexander (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper examines the relationships between environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea. Through an examination of the environmental narrative of the local communities and the state, the ...
    • Environmental, social and economic problems in the Borkena plain, Ethiopia 

      Balcha, Berhanu Gutema (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)
      People in Borkena in Ethiopia suffer from a complex interplay of environmental degradation, increasing shortage of land due to population growth, conflicts between different ethnic and religious identities, and social ...
    • Equinors skattemilliarder til Afrika kommer ikke vanlige folk tilgode, mener skatteekspert Odd-Helge Fjeldstad 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (Others, 2023-09-01)
      – Equinor betalte over 32 milliarder kroner i skatt til Algerie, Angola, Libya og Nigeria i 2022. De enorme inntektene fra oljesektoren har imidlertid i liten grad kommet befolkningen til gode, sier Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, ...
    • Er diamantene renvasket? 

      Samset, Ingrid (Others, 2007-01-01)
      Til tross for Kimberley-prosessen kan diamanter fortsatt bidra til både borgerkriger og barnearbeid.
    • Er Kabul trygt for retur? 

      Wimpelmann, Torunn; Strand, Arne (Others, 2017-11-01)
      Noreg har så langt i år returnert over 500 afghanarar til Kabul. Samtidig er tryggleiken forverra i heile landet, og spesielt Kabul har store sivile tap. Stortinget er delt i oppfatninga om ein skal stanse eller halde fram ...
    • Espaço Urbano e Pobreza em Maputo, Moçambique 

      Tvedten, Inge; Roque, Sandra; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (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 ...
    • Et lite offer? En analyse av årsakene til det diplomatiske bruddet mellom Norge og Kenya i 1990 

      Selbervik, Hilde Beate (Research report, Research report, 1995)
      Den 22. oktober 1990 ble den norske ambassadøren innkalt til det kenyanske utenriksdepartementet; kenyanske myndigheter hadde besluttet å bryte de diplomatiske forbindelsene med Norge. Dette var resultatet av en unik ...
    • Ethiopia After Meles: Stability for How Long? 

      Aalen, Lovise (Journal article, 2014-05-01)
      When Meles Zenawi, the national and ruling party leader for 21 years, died in August 2012, most observers predicted that Ethiopia would be thrown into an uncertain transition and put in great danger by destructive internal ...
    • Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983: local, regional and global connections 

      Aalen, Lovise (Journal of Eastern African Studies vol. 8 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-09-01)
      During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has been explained as retribution for Sudanese aid to Eritrean rebels ...
    • Ethnic and Fiscal Federalism in Nepal 

      Aalen, Lovise; Hatlebakk, Magnus (Research report, 2008-07-24)
      Nepal is in the process of making a democratic federal republic. We hope to contribute to the discussions of ethnic and fiscal federalism based on experiences from other countries. Our main conclusions are: The new ...
    • Ethnic Federalism in a Dominant Party State: The Ethiopian Experience 1991-2000 

      Aalen, Lovise (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      Since 1991, when the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front came to power, two parallel political processes have taken place in Ethiopia. Firstly, the country is restructuring into a federal system, where the ...