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Uetisk import av helsearbeidere?
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Uganda's 2006 Presidental and Parliamentary Elections
(Research report, Research report, 2006)This report analyses the 2006 Ugandan presidential and parliamentary election in terms of the broader process starting with the processes of setting the rule for political contestation, through the registration of voters ... -
UMOJA and the Maputo Festival. Midterm review of the UMOJA Cultural Flying Carpet and the Maputo Festival
(CMI Report R 2015:1, Research report, 2015-01-01)This review was commissioned by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Maputo. The Terms of Reference (ToR) for the study says that the team shall visit Mozambique and one of the other six African countries that are part of the ... -
UN peacekeeping in the Congo: When is the job done?
(Noref Policy Brief 6, June, Research report, 2010-06-01)On 28 May 2010, the United Nations Security Council made a critical decision on the future of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc) – the largest and most costly such operation in ... -
UN Resolution 16/18 and the Istanbul Process: What has been achieved? A charting of blasphemy trends in Pakistan and Indonesia.
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UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Peacebuilding in Africa 20 years after its adoption
(CMI Brief no. 2020:08, Report, 2020-07-01)20 years ago the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325. The resolution underscored the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and called for their equal participation in ... -
UN support for peacebuilding: Nepal as the exceptional case
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)In the annals of UN peace operations, the mission in Nepal (UNMIN) appears as an exceptional case. Most peace support operations today are multidimensional – covering the security sector, political transition, relief and ... -
UNCAC in a nutshell 2021. A quick guide to the United Nations Convention against Corruption for donor agency and embassy staff
(Others, 2021-12-01)Embassies and bilateral donor staff can use The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) to engage partner governments around technical support provisions. It can also help facilitate a transparent and inclusive review ... -
UNCAC in a nutshell. A quick guide to the United Nations Convention against Corruption for embassy and donor agency staff
(U4 Brief 2010:6, Report, 2010-08-01)This guide provides an introduction for country-level embassy and donor agency staff on what the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) can mean for their work. The aim is to raise awareness of UNCAC contents ... -
Uncertainty as a Strategy: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Zambia has held three multiparty elections since its restoration of democracy in 1991. This peaceful transition raised expectations of a smooth process towards democratic consolidation. But similar to experiences from other ... -
Uncorking the bottlenecks: Using political economy analysis to address court delay
(U4 Brief 2015:10, Report, 2015-08-01)Long delays in the resolution of court cases are a common problem in both developing and developed countries and impede anti-corruption efforts. Technical solutions such as hiring more judges and reforming cumbersome ... -
Underdevelopment and labour migration: the contract labour system in Namibia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This volume reproduces, with minor changes, a set of previously published papers on the history of the origins, formation and evolution of the contract labour system in Namibia from first commercial contact with industrial ... -
Understanding and addressing poverty and food insecurity in Afghanistan
(CMI Insight 2023:1, Report, 2023-04-01)An estimated 28 million Afghans, more than two thirds of the country’s total population, struggle to put food on the table. A wide array of socio-economic and environmental changes has led to this crisis. This CMI ... -
Understanding Inequality Within Households
(Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Chapter, 2022-12-01)To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given society, it is necessary to understand intra-household inequality. This chapter gives an overview of within-household distributions in different settings, both ... -
Understanding success and failure of anti-corruption initiatives
(U4 Brief 2011:2, Report, 2011-04-01)Most anti-corruption initiatives fail. This Brief sets out to understand why that is, and what might be done about it. Anti-corruption initiatives fail because of over-large “design-reality gaps”; that is, too great a ... -
Understanding the Lay of the Land: An Institutional Analysis of Petro-Governance in Tanzania
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:12, Working paper, 2016-12-01)Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum reserves, boosting its reserve natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. What is the likelihood that the country’s petroleum resources will translate into ... -
Understanding the Private Side of Corruption: New Kinds of Transparency, New Roles for Donors
(U4 Brief 2007:6, Report, 2007-10-09)Do we know enough about corruption in the private sector? This Brief discusses gaps in our knowledge and how donors can help tackle the problem. The goal is to improve both the dialogue and outcomes of anti-corruption ... -
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania
(CMI Working Paper WP 2018:5, Working paper, 2018-01-01)Corruption appears to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. We report from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania that provides causal evidence on how expectations about future natural ... -
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania
(Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization vol. 183, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-01)Corruption is considered an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. Based on a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, this paper studies how the salience of future natural resource revenues shapes ... -
Une éducation sans corruption : Les leçons tirées d'une initiative conjointe entre l'Etat et la société civile au Pérou
(U4 Brief 2009:13, Report, 2009-08-13)Une initiative anti‑corruption récente ciblant le secteur éducatif du Pérou a été lancée conjointement par le Bureau du Médiateur et le Chapitre péruvien de Transparency International, Proética. Cette initiative cherchait ...