• Strengthening District Health Systems and HIV Service Delivery Outcomes in Mozambique: Findings from the CHASS-SMT Project 

      Jacobson, Denise; Ugaz, Jorge; Lee, Daniel; Rosario, Carmeliza Soares da Costa; Castrillo, Marcelo (Research report, 2015-10-01)
      Introduction : While there is growing consensus within the global health community on the importance of health systems strengthening (HSS) to improving service delivery and health outcomes, evidence linking HSS interventions ...
    • Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan 

      Bauck, Petter; Strand, Arne (Norad Report Discussion 3/2009, Research report, 2009-03-01)
      The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to enable them to be a more concerned partner for the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) ...
    • Strengthening Tanzania’s Anti-Corruption Action (STACA) Programme A Case Study Evaluation 

      Johnsøn, Jesper; Aiko, Rose; Messick, Richard; Mwombela, Stephen; Schütte, Sofie; Sengu, Hussein (Research report, 2016-03-01)
      This report summarises the findings of the independent evaluation of DfID’s Strengthening Tanzania’s Anti-Corruption Action (STACA) programme conducted by a team from the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4) at the Chr. ...
    • Strengthening the ethics framework within aid organisations. Good practices from the compliance approach and the values-based approach 

      Nicaise, Guillaume (U4 Issue 2022:8, Research report, 2022-09-01)
      Values based approaches can be used to help tackle implicit biases and informal norms, such as gender discrimination. They shift focus from the individual to the network in the design of anti-corruption policies, considering ...
    • Striking a New Balance? Exploring Civil-Military Relations in Colombia in a Time of Hope 

      McNeish, John-Andrew; Andrade, Gabriel Rojas; Vallejo, Catalina (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:5, Working paper, 2015-05-01)
      Colombia appears to be fast approaching an agreement on a set of peace accords ending an armed conflict that has lasted over 55 years. In this CMI Working paper, we consider the status of and possibilities to transform ...
    • Strong regional inequalities in health service delivery in Angola 

      Mæstad, Ottar; Frøystad, Mona; Villamil, Nohra (Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 3, Report, 2011-06-05)
      A statistical survey of health facilities and households in Luanda and Uíge has confirmed that strong inequalities persist between provinces in the availability of basic health services. Large differences are observed also ...
    • Subverting the Constitution and Curtailing Civil Society. Angola’s New Law on NGOs. 

      Gomes, Catarina Antunes; Abreu, Cesaltina; Nangacovie, Margareth; Amundsen, Inge (CMI Insight 2023:2, Report, 2023-09-01)
      In Angola, the government is in the process of making a new law on the NGOs, a law that is deemed unconstitutional, unnecessary, and a breach of people’s fundamental rights and freedoms of association. Like in many ...
    • Successful practices and lessons learned: Ukrainian students in Swedish and Finnish schools 

      Ukjent forfatter (Report, 2024-03-01)
      The integration of Ukrainian refugee students into schools in Finland and Sweden is a crucial aspect of their adaptation to new circumstances. This policy brief draws on a qualitative study conducted in the spring of 2022 ...
    • Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv (The Middle East (16th edition), Chapter, 2023-02-01)
    • Sudan country case study: Child rights 

      al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (UTV Working Paper 2011:3, Research report, 2011-08-26)
    • Sudan peace agreements: Current challenges and future prospects 

      Ahmad, Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2010: 1, Working paper, 2010-03-17)
      Since achieving independence, Sudan has been burdened with many conflicts which have hindered its economic, social and cultural development. While some of these problems can be attributed to colonial polices within the ...
    • Sudanese Women’s Demands for Freedom, Peace, and Justice in the 2019 Revolution 

      al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, Chapter, 2021-10-01)
      This chapter aims to understand why women were so visibly involved in the most recent revolution and how it relates to their struggles for peace, justice, and freedom during the dictatorship of Bashir. Women’s activism ...
    • Sudan’s constitutional process: A gender inclusive approach 

      Hoverter, Terry (Report, 2021-08-01)
      Research shows that including women in constitutional processes secures more durable and long-lasting outcomes. Yet women have been excluded from the discussions about Sudan’s future. What steps can the transitional ...
    • Sudan’s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism 

      Assal, Munzoul A. M. (CMI Brief no. 2019:3, Report, 2019-12-01)
      This Sudan Brief is concerned with the fractionalization of Islamism during Bashir’s rule (1989-2019). It does not focus on the details of Bashir’s brutal rule, rather, it is about the emerging disunity from ...
    • Sudan’s Transition: Living in Bad Surroundings 

      Sørbø, Gunnar M. (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:4, Working paper, 2020-12-01)
      Following the 2019 April revolution, Sudan now finds itself in the middle of a profound and uncertain political transition. Should the transition succeed, the country could move in directions that are novel in Sudan’s ...
    • Support to political parties 

      Amundsen, Inge (Others, 2007-11-28)
      Norwegian Centre for Democracy support arranged the seminar "Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies" with Dr. Thomas Carothers (Vice President for Studies of International Politics and ...
    • Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries 

      Tostensen, Arne; Stokke, Hugo; Trygged, Sven; Halvorsen, Kate (Research report, 2011-02-01)
      This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the dual purpose of: (a) summarising results ...
    • Switches from quota- to non-quota seats: A comparative study of Tanzania and Uganda 

      Wang, Vibeke; Yoon, Mi Yung (CMI Brief no. 2, Report, 2018-04-01)
      Reserved-seat quotas have been used worldwide as a measure to get more women in parliament. However, they are meant to be temporary until women can compete with men for open seats using their quota experience. The cases ...
    • Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention 

      Knudsen, Are John (Lebanon Facing the Arab Uprisings: Between Internal Challenges and External Constraints, Chapter, 2017-01-01)
      The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted a “non–camp” approach, meaning that nearly all the refugees are self–settled and ...
    • Syrian Refugees in Istanbul and Gaziantep: Comparative Findings on Settlement, Livelihood and Support 

      Içduygu, Ahmet; Osseiran, Souad (CMI Insight 2022:01, Report, 2022-06-01)
      The Syrian presence in Turkey is largely urban in nature with refugees settling in regional cities along the Syria-Turkey border and in the metropolises of western Turkey. Based on a survey with 300 Syrian refugees in ...