• ​Feminist policy in Ukraine’s recovery and post-conflict reconstruction: ​A gender perspective in anti-corruption efforts 

      White, Sabrina; Bandali, Sara; Kirya, Monica (U4 Report 2023:3, Research report, 2023-12-01)
      The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda provides an opportunity to integrate gender perspectives into anti-corruption strategies and ensure that women’s and underrepresented groups’ have a role in decision-making ...
    • Gender and poverty in Mozambique 

      Tvedten, Inge (CMI Brief vol. 9 no. 6, Report, 2010-10-01)
      Gender equality and women’s empowerment are high on the government and donor agendas in Sub-Saharan Africa, but have largely failed to have an impact. Rather than ‘mainstreaming’ gender, more attention to the variations ...
    • Gender equality and development in Mozambique 

      Tvedten, Inge (Background article for the World Development Report 2012, Research report, 2011-01-01)
      This article outlines some of the main policies and interventions for economic development and gender equality in Mozambique since Independence in 1975, and assesses key implications for the positions of -  and relations ...
    • Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives? 

      Holden, Stein; Bezu, Sosina (Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper, Research report, 2013-01-01)
      We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ...
    • Labor-intensive jobs for women and development: Intrahousehold welfare effects and its transmission channels 

      Getahun, Tigabu D.; Villanger, Espen (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:15, Working paper, 2015-01-01)
      We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, the women workers, their husbands and their oldest daughters reduced ...
    • Legal Pluralism And Indigenous Women’s Rights In Mexico: The Ambiguities Of Recognition 

      Sieder, Rachel (NYU Journal of International Law and Politics vol. 48 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-01)
      This article explores the effects of the ambiguous recognition of indigenous or “customary” law in Mexico on the struggle of indigenous women to ensure their rights are respected. After outlining the history of legal changes ...
    • Monografia de Município de Kalandula 

      Gilson, Lazáro; Tvedten, Inge; Agostinho, Mateus; Strønen, Iselin (Relatório Social de Angola 2016, Chapter, 2018-03-01)
      O Relatório Social de Angola 2016 faz um balanço analítico do que mais relevante ocorreu no sector social, no ano em apreço, a partir da avaliação do comportamento dos seus indicadores-chave. O oitavo ...
    • Mozambique Country Case Study: Child Rights 

      Halvorsen, Kate; Rosario, Carmeliza; Tuominen, Minna (UTV Working Paper no. 2011:2, Research report, 2011-02-01)
    • Reality Checks Mozambique 2015. Sub-report, District of Lago 

      Tvedten, Inge; Noronha, Nair; José, Barnabé; Putile, Beatri (Reality Checks Mozambique 2011-2015, Research report, 2016-01-01)
      This is the sub-report on Lago for the 5 th Reality Check, to be complemented by similar sub-reports from Cuamba and Majune. The focus is on quantitative expressions of poverty and well-being, primarily based on results ...
    • Reality Checks Mozambique. Final Report 2011-2015 

      Tvedten, Inge; Tuominen, Minna; Rosario, Carmeliza (Research report, 2016-03-01)
      This is the Final Report, summing up and analysing the entire Reality Check series of studies. In line with the main objective/idea of the series, is based on qualitative information and data or “poor people’s ...
    • ROUNDTABLE: Women on the Bench 

      Skaar, Elin (Conference object, 2023-08-01)
      In long-established western democracies, women have made inroads as judges only during the past few decades. In post-conflict and transitional developing countries, however, women constitute an increasingly larger proportion ...
    • 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 ...
    • Stortingskandidaters møter med vold: Er norsk politikk et trygt rom? 

      Belschner, Jana; Muriaas, Ragnhild; Wang, Vibeke (CMI Brief no. 2023:8, Report, 2023-11-01)
      Norske politikere blir i liten grad utsatt for politisk motivert vold. De tenker heller ikke på vold som en risiko en må regne med om en engasjerer seg politisk. Likevel opplever mange norske politikere å ...
    • 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 ...
    • The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas 

      Tønnessen, Liv; Kjøstvedt, Hilde Granås (CMI Brief vol. 9 no. 1, Report, 2010-02-24)
      The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given post-confl ict situation. This brief challenges this position by exploring ...
    • The ‘Joyce Banda Effect’: Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in Malawi 

      Chikapa, Tiyesere Mercy (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 6, Report, 2016-04-01)
      In the 2014 elections in Malawi, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency, and the number of women MPs was reduced from 43 to 33. This decline in women representation came despite opinion polls showing ...
    • Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan MPs' Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998-2008. 

      Wang, Vibeke (Representation vol. 50 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-09-01)
      Participation in legislative debates is potentially an important tool for Members of Parliament (MPs) to communicate policy positions and exert influence on the policy process. Yet there are few studies of legislative ...
    • When Men do Women's Work: Structural Adjustment, Unemployment and Changing Gender Relations in the Informal Economy of Accra, Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild (Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 45 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-11-30)
      Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural-urban ...
    • Women’s Rights and Political Representation: Past Achievements and Future Challenges 

      Sharan, Timor; Wimpelmann, Torunn (PRIO Paper 2014, Research report, 2014-12-03)
      This paper summarizes the main achievements and challenges for Afghan women’s participation in politics and their access to justice. It also presents the most important reflections amongst key stakeholders about possible ...
    • Working with Gender in Rural Afghanistan: Experiences from Norwegian-funded NGO projects 

      Strand, Arne; Wimpelmann, Torunn (Norad Evaluations 10/2014, Research report, 2014-11-24)
      Gender equality and women’s rights is a key priority for Norway’s foreign and development policy in general and in Afghanistan in particular. Gender considerations are included in most of Norway’s development cooperation ...