• Responsiveness to the concerns of the poor and accountability to the commitment to poverty reduction 

      Gloppen, Siri; Rakner, Lise; Tostensen, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Taking its cue from the poverty-reduction thrust of the Millennium Development Goals, this paper proposes an analytical framework for answering the fundamental question: How can we increase the responsiveness of decision-makers ...
    • Restructuring SADC - Progress and Problems 

      Isaksen, Jan (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      This study was commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD). It is a follow up to “Assessing the Restructuring of SADC – Positions, Policies and Progress. Chr Michelsen Institute (CMI Report ...
    • Return in Dignity, Return to What? Review of the Voluntary Return Programme to Afghanistan 

      Strand, Arne; Akbari, Arghawan; Chaudhary, Torunn Wimpelmann (Research report, Research report, 2008)
      This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, Utlendingsdirektoratet (UDI), to assess the programme for voluntary return to Afghanistan. The programme is open to Afghan nationals whose asylum ...
    • Revenue Authorities and State Capacity in Anglophone Africa 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Moore, Mick (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2008)
      Since the early 1990s, many countries in Anglophone Africa have established (semi-) autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally distinct from ministries of finance, with some real operational autonomy, and with ...
    • Review of Bistandsnemda's (Norwegian Missions in Development) Work with Indigenous Peoples 

      Borchgrevink, Axel; McNeish, John-Andrew (Research report, Research report, 2007)
      As part of Norway’s efforts to strengthen its cooperation with indigenous peoples a set of Guidelines were published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. The Guidelines emphasise a rights-based approach ...
    • Review of Haydom Lutheran Hospital. External Review Contracted by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Dar es Salaam 

      Mæstad, Ottar; Brehony, Eamonn (Research report, Research report, 2007)
      This report reviews the performance of Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH), Tanzania. Focus is on HLH’s output and effectiveness as a hospital, HLH’s place in the Tanzanian health system, and on the role of HLH as a development ...
    • Review of Norwegian Earthquake Assistance to Pakistan 2005 and 2006 

      Strand, Arne; Borchgrevink, Kaja (Research report, Research report, 2006)
      The massive earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan and India on 8 October 2005, led to the loss of more than 75 000 lives, 100 000 were severely injured and 2.8 million were left without shelter. The relief ...
    • Review of Norwegian support to Tanzania Culture Trust Fund 

      Lange, Siri; Rønnevig, Marianne (Research report, Research report, 2005)
      This report reviews Norwegian support to Tanzania Culture Trust Fund (Mfuko wa Utamaduni Tanzania). The fund was established by the Government of Tanzania and Sida in 1998, and aims to promote individual and organizational ...
    • Review of Right to Play 

      Lange, Siri; Haugsjå, Sigmund (Research report, Report, 2006)
      Right to Play (former Olympic Aid), is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation which uses sport and play as a development tool for children and youth. The central delivery method is through international ...
    • Review of the Nepal Human Rights Yearbook 1993-2002 

      Stokke, Hugo; Sissener, Tone Kristin; Lama-Tamang, Mukta S. (Research report, Research report, 2003)
      NORAD has been supporting the Nepal Human Rights Yearbook for a decade, from the pilot issue in 1992 and up to present date. The Yearbook has over the entire period been published by the Informal Sector Service Center ...
    • Review of the Norwegian Development Fund Portfolio in Ethiopia 

      Waters-Bayer, Ann; Tostensen, Arne; GebreMichael, Yohannes (Research report, Research report, 2005)
      This report reviews the Ethiopian portfolio of the Development Fund (DF), a Norwegian NGO, which has evolved from supporting relief work by one Tigrayan organisation in the 1980s to supporting ten projects with several ...
    • Rewarding Safe Motherhood. How can Performance-Based Funding Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Tanzania? 

      Mæstad, Ottar (Research report, Research report, 2007)
      Performance-based funding has been proposed as one mechanism to speed up the implementation of interventions for reduced maternal and newborn mortality. This report investigates the potential role of such funding mechanisms ...
    • Rich Meets Poor - an International Fairness Experiment 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2008)
      Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world’s poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people’s social ...
    • Risk and disintermediation in tourism 

      Wiig, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      Tourism is an information-intensive market, characterised by asymmetric information between service providers and the customer. Intermediaries have traditionally played an important role as certifiers of products, and the ...
    • Rukwa Ruka. The attempt of a foreign donor to uplift a neglected region: A study of the impact of Norwegian aid to Rukwa Region, Tanzania 

      Jerve, Alf Morten; Ntemi, E.J.K. (Research report, Research report, 2009)
      From 1978 to 1996 a close link existed between one of Tanzania’s least developed regions and Norway. Norway provided aid to the tune of 400 million kroner, or about 70 million dollar, with the broad goal of improving the ...
    • Rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century 

      Tostensen, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      Despite the rapid rate of urbanisation in Africa, most migrants retain links to their rural origins. Many households pursue a circular migration strategy or are semi-permanently split in a rural and an urban part by means ...
    • SADC in 2003: Restructuring and Progress in Regional Integration 

      Isaksen, Jan (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      The present desk study was commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. It traces recent developments in the Southern Africa Development Commu nity (SADC), organisational restructuring and progress in ...
    • SADC's Restructuring and Emerging Policies Options for Norwegian Support 

      Tjønneland, Elling N.; Jan, Isaksen; Le Pere, Garth (Research report, Research report, 2005)
      In 2001 SADC approved an ambitious program for a major overhaul of the organisation. Through institutional reform SADC hoped to establish a more efficient Head Office and Secretariat which could provide stronger leadership, ...
    • Safeguarding the Right to Asylum 

      Suhrke, Astri (Working paper, Working paper, 1992)
      The paper was prepared for a UN Expert Group meeting in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, January 1993, in preparation for the 1994 World Conference on Population and Development. The paper analyzes the challenges which contemporary ...
    • Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in Bangladesh. Its Growth and State Expenditures: A Time-series Analysis of 1981-90 

      Alam, Mahmudul (Working paper, Working paper, 1992)
      This paper first identifies trends and patterns in the growth of the secondary and higher secondary schools in Bangladesh, while differentiating between the Islamic madrassa schools, and the general (mainstream) ones. ...