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    • Save the Children’s work on child protection and child rights in Mozambique and South Sudan 

      Gichohi, Matthew; Mæstad, Ottar (CMI Report 2023:2, Research report, 2023-06-01)
      Background Save the Children Norway (SCN) and its partners are implementing an extensive programme to support children’s education, child protection and child rights in 16 countries. The programme is running from 2019 ...
    • Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India 

      Somville, Vincent; Vandewalle, Lore (IHEID Working Paper 01-2015, Research report, 2015-03-19)
      A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. Grounding our hypothesis in behavioral economics, we conjecture that being paid ...
    • Sea-Locked: The Cascading Effects of Seaborne Challenges to Human Security in Madagascar 

      Shi, Xuefei (Global Challenges in Maritime Security: Sustainability and the Sea, Chapter, 2024-10-01)
      This chapter presents a ‘wicked deadlock’ between human insecurity, underdevelopment, and unsustainability against the background of a more turbulent ocean environment, which can be best illustrated with the ...
    • Security and remilitarization in the name of democracy: The impact of global crime control policies in Honduras 

      Rivera, Lirio Gutierrez (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:10, Working paper, 2015-09-01)
      During the past decade, the Honduran government has introduced hard-line security policies in order to reduce the alarming levels of crime and delinquency in the country. This CMI Working paper outlines the history of ...
    • See you in court! Holding the military to account in Latin America 

      Skaar, Elin (CMI Insight 2016:2, Report, 2016-02-01)
      The courtroom has become an increasingly common meeting place for retired military officials, and victims and their families who have suffered various forms of abuse at the hands of the military: torture, rape, forced ...
    • Seeking out their Afghan sisters: Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan 

      Azarbaijani-Moghaddam, Sippi (CMI Working Paper WP 2014:1, Working paper, 2014-03-25)
      Almost a decade after the 2001 intervention by the United States and its allies in Afghanistan, women were once again taking centre stage in NATO planning. With a new counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy in play, gaining ...
    • Sempre do Topo para a Base: Revisões Constitucionais em Angola 

      Amundsen, Inge (CMI Working Paper 2021:10, Working paper, 2021-12-01)
      Angola revisou, uma vez mais, a sua constituição, em 2021. Segundo declarações oficiais, estas revisões “fortalecem o Estado de Direito, a separação e interdependência dos órgãos de soberania”, mas este documento demonstra ...
    • Seroprevalence and associated factors of maternal cytomegalovirus in Southern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study 

      Zenebe, Mengistu Hailemariam; Mekonnen, Zeleke; Loha, Eskindir; Padalko, Elizaveta (BMJ Open vol. 11 no. 10, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-01)
      Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the seroprevalence and associated factors of cytomegalovirus (CMV) among pregnant women in Southern Ethiopia. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting The ...
    • Servants of the nation, defenders of la patria: The Bolivarian Militia in Venezuela 

      Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:13, Working paper, 2015-01-01)
      In 2008, the government of now-deceased President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela passed a law creating what is known as the Bolivarian militia (Milicia Bolivariana), a reserve force composed by civilian volunteers supplementing ...
    • Service delivery indicators: Pilot in education and health care in Africa 

      Bold, Tessa; Svensson, Jakob; Gauthier, Bernard; Mæstad, Ottar; Wane, Waly (CMI Report R 2011:8, Research report, 2011-11-30)
      The Service Delivery Indicators (“the Indicators”) provide a set of metrics for benchmarking service delivery performance in education and health in Africa to track progress across and within countries over time. The ...
    • Sexual and reproductive rights - a global legal battlefield 

      Gianella, Camila; Gloppen, Siri; Sieder, Rachel; Yamin, Alicia (CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 1, Report, 2013-04-01)
      Millennium Development Goal number 5 (MDG 5) aims to reduce maternal mortality. In this brief we argue that, in the current global context more rigorous research focusing on the legal battles around women’s sexual and ...
    • Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014 

      McRobie, Heather (CMI Insight 2014:7, Report, 2014-09-04)
      Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period women have also become targets of sexual ...
    • Sexual violence in Sudan: From denial to recognition 

      Nihar, Samia (Report, 2024-02-01)
      The April 15 war has led to a shift in the public discourse about sexual violence in Sudan. From being a topic that is largely swept under the carpet, it is now acknowledged as an integral part of warfare. This brief ...
    • Shadow Value Chains: Tracing the link between corruption, illicit activity and lootable natural resources from West Africa 

      Østensen, Åse Gilje; Stridsman, Mats (U4 Issue 2017:7, Research report, 2017-06-01)
      Illicit natural resource trade continues to benefit corrupt officials, criminal and terrorist networks and to divert resources away from development, security and the common good in West Africa. How are Liberian timber, ...
    • Shady traffic: Part three: Review of the portefolio supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on combating trafficking in human beings 

      Halvorsen, Kate; Stokke, Hugo (Norad report 2c/2009, Research report, 2009-02-05)
      As a response to the growing international and national focus on combating human trafficking, Norway developed its first action plan on trafficking for the period 2003-2005, succeeded by another one to cover the period of ...
    • Shaping the tax agenda: Public engagement, lobbying and tax reform in Tanzania 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Ngowi, Prosper; Rakner, Lise (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 5, Report, 2015-07-01)
      Tax reforms are no longer the exclusive domain of the International Monetary Fund, external experts, and the Ministry of Finance. Increasingly, interest groups across Africa shape the tax agenda. Business associations and ...
    • Shatila: The island of (in)stability 

      Haveland, Bjørnar Skaar (Journal article, 2021-02-01)
      The Shatila refugee camp was established in 1949 for Palestinian refugees fleeing Palestine during the Nakba. The camp is located in Beirut next to the Sabra neighbourhood (of the Gaza buildings discussed in the foregoing ...
    • Should Corrupt Countries receive Budget Support? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Brief, Report, 2005-01-01)
      Corruption makes budget support ineffective, and sometimes counter-productive. Budget support is particularly unsuitable in partner countries where political corruption is rampant. As donors increase budget support, it is ...
    • Should Tanzania establish a sovereign wealth fund? 

      Torvik, Ragnar (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:5, Working paper, 2016-07-01)
      Abstract Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. The paper looks into different arguments used as reasons to establish ...
    • Shrinking oil: Does weak governance and corruption reduce volumes of oil produced? 

      Al-Kasim, Farouk; Søreide, Tina; Williams, Aled (U4 Issue 2010:3, Research report, 2010-06-18)
      Prominent contributions to the resource curse literature suggest that weak governance and corruption are key factors behind continued poverty in resource-rich countries. How poor governance and corruption influence revenue ...