• How does litigation affect health financing? 

      Mæstad, Ottar; Ferraz, Octavio; Yamin, Alicia Ely; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Gloppen, Siri (Technical Brief Series Brief No 15, Research report, 2010-01-01)
      In the last fifteen years, judicial claims to secure health services as a matter of right have become an important phenomenon in a number of countries including South Africa, India, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Costa ...
    • How donors use Due Diligence to identify corruption risks 

      Autran, Camille; Musso, Sophie (U4 Issue 2022:11, Research report, 2022-09-01)
      Due Diligence makes it possible for donors to detect corruption risks involving potential partners at an early stage. Although a key project milestone, Due Diligence can place a burden on small NGOs with a less structured ...
    • How much ‘Soft Power’ does China have in Africa? 

      Rønning, Helge (China's media and soft power in Africa: Promotion and perceptions, Chapter, 2016-01-01)
      I have over the past years been intrigued by why Chinese scholars and policy makers have found the term ‘soft power’1 so useful. Can it have something to with its loose connotations, and that it one the hand signifies ...
    • How prepared are we to assess real implementation of anti corruption conventions? Lessons from the Americas 

      Peñailillo, Miguel (U4 Issue 2009:3, Research report, 2009-03-31)
      The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is the latest achievement in a series of international anti corruption treaties. All of them share a common challenge – how to meaningfully assess their implementation. ...
    • How Pro-poor are Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia? 

      Holden, Stein; Bezu, Sosina; Tilahun, Mesfin (Research report, 2016-01-01)
    • How to monitor and evaluate anti-corruption agencies: Guidelines for agencies, donors, and evaluators 

      Johnsøn, Jesper; Hechler, Hannes; De Sousa, Luís; Mathisen, Harald (U4 Issue 2011:8, Research report, 2011-09-26)
      The number of Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) around the world has increased dramatically over the past decades. Nevertheless, the value of ACAs is increasingly being questioned by international donors and national ...
    • Huge potential for improved health service quality 

      Mæstad, Ottar; Mwisongo, Aziza; Lange, Siri (CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 10, Report, 2011-10-25)
      Health workers’ knowledge and skills are much better than their practice suggests. By closing the gap between knowledge and action, the quality of health services will increase substantially.
    • Huge potential for improved health service quality 

      Mæstad, Ottar; Lange, Siri; Mwisongo, Aziza (Others, 2012-11-07)
    • Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working Paper WP 2011: 1, Working paper, 2011-02-02)
      Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present the first field experiment that jointly investigates these two constraints for ...
    • Human rights in Angola 

      Amundsen, Inge; Abreu, Cesaltina; Gomes, Catarina (Others, 2021-03-01)
    • Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Eastern Sudan 

      Ati, Hassan Ahmed Abdel (Sudan Report SR 2017:2, Research report, 2017-09-01)
      Sudan has long been a hub for individuals from the Horn of Africa on their way to north Africa, Europe, and beyond, and this has only increased in recent years. In particular, eastern Sudan often serves as a passage for ...
    • Humanitarian borders: The merging of rescue with security and control 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Brief no. 2018:11, Report, 2018-01-01)
    • Humanitarian Diplomacy - A Bibliography 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Others, 2021-05-01)
      A list of key references in the field of humanitarian diplomacy.
    • Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan 

      Altunisik, Meliha Benli (SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-01)
      In recent years Turkey has made Humanitarian Diplomacy (HD) an essential element of its foreign policy. This article analyzes Turkey’s HD as a role conception and role performance by focusing on two cases, Somalia ...
    • Humanitarian Diplomacy: A New Research Agenda 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Brief no. 2018:4, Report, 2018-06-01)
      Improving access to humanitarian aid in conflict and complex emergencies has always been a major concern for policy makers and humanitarian actors. Historically, humanitarianism has been conducted in situations of extreme ...
    • Humanitarian Diplomacy: Interview with Jan Egeland 

      Turunen, Salla (Others, 2020-11-01)
      Humanitarian diplomacy surrounds the field of humanitarian action and aims to meet humanitarian objectives by diplomatic means. The term itself is most often used by humanitarian practitioners, and as a practitioner-driven ...
    • Humanitarian Diplomatic Practices 

      Turunen, Salla (The Hague Journal of Diplomacy vol. 15 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-01)
      Humanitarian diplomacy is a new term, yet an old practice, and has received relatively little academic attention. This contrasts with the reality of humanitarian practitioners’ work, which has shown increasing ...
    • Humanitarian Militarism and the Production of Humanity 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Social Anthropology vol. 27 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-01)
      The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection of war and ...
    • Humanitarianism: An Overview 

      De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Insight 2021:3, Report, 2021-06-01)
      This overview briefly discusses four crucial domains of contemporary humanitarianism, namely humanitarian diplomacy, education in emergencies, the concept of civil society in humanitarianism, and humanitarian borders.