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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Friend, Partner, Saviour or Master? China's Aid and Poverty Reduction in Africa

In recent years, China has become much more assertive in international development, trade, environment and foreign aid policies. The country represents a counterweight to the policies and development aid models that have for long been promoted directly or indirectly in poor countries by the Glob...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Oslo

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksin.forskn

Young scientist grant for Katerini T. Storeng: Advocacy and policy change for health equity in low-income countries

GLOBVACs Unge Forskere-stipend har støttet karriereutviklingen til Katerini T. Storeng. Storeng er medisinsk antropolog med PhD fra London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine i Storbritannia, med interesse for global helsepolitikk og praksis. Stipendet støttet hennes deltakelse i forskjellige i...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Arne Næss Chair, Arne Næss Symposium & Arne Næss Seminarene

Arne Næss Chair in Global Justice and the Environment is designed to critically continue and develop the intellectual legacy of Arne Næss. The Chair is awarded to international scholars who promote cutting edge insights into research on development and th e environment. The Chair is awarded to in...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Gender and Agricultural Change in Argentina: The Impact of Gene Modified Soybean Revolution

Based on anthropological fieldwork among Argentine farmers in Santa Fe province, this project is a continuation of an over-time research on social change in rural Argentina initiated in 1973. It aims to analyse the impact of the "GMO revolution" that has taken place in Argentina over the last two...

Awarded: NOK 0.62 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Sustainable development in Peru. A study of the factors that determine sustainable consumption and wellbeing across socio-economic groups

Denne forskningen har adressert to beslektede problemstillinger. Den første dreier seg om forholdet mellom personlig motivasjon og lykke på tvers av sosioøkonomiske grupper i Peru. Psykologisk forskning viser at folk som prioriterer penger, popularitet og fysisk utseende (ytre motivasjon) over ti...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

The role of civil society in environmental governance and climate change policymaking- A case study of the UN-REDD in Bolivia

Sivilsamfunnets rolle i miljøstyring og utforming av skog- og klimapolitikk I 2008 ble Bolivia et av de første pilotlandene i FNs klimaprogram for Reduserte utslipp fra avskoging og degradering av skog (UN-REDD). Over 50% av folket i Bolivia er urfolk og 10 % bor i eller er avhengig av skoge...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Rights, Empowerment and Poverty: From Appealing Rhetoric to Implementable Policy?

The urgency of reducing world poverty requires innovative and practical thinking and the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development (HRBA) and the Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) are increasingly being considered by various organisations to be viable alternatives to conventional development ...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Publisering av Storm in Paradise: Main Currents in Norwegian Cultural History

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Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Health systems strengthening within vaccination programmes: an ethnographic study (HEALVAC)

Within the global health field, donors, policymakers and researchers often emphasise the importance of “health system strengthening”. Health system strengthening has become a buzzword, but there is actually a great deal of ambiguity about what it means – to different people, at different levels o...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

FINANSMARK-Finansmarkedet

Conference on the relationship between finance and climate

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Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Confronting Transnationalization: the Economic, Environmental and Political Strategies of the Central American Economic Groups

Central America is often viewed as a region governed by small, economic elites that created theirfortunes and the basis for their political power through the control with production and export ofagricultural goods like coffee, sugar, cotton and cattle. Many diversified into industry with theprote...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Oslo Sustainability Summit

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The effect of migration and remittances on land use change in rural Guatemala and Mexico: is there a forest transition?

Results from our research project, indicate that international migration has important effects onland tenure and patterns of land distribution in the areas of origin of migrants in Chiapas andGuatemala, as well as on land use. Excluded groups like women and indigenous peoples have insome few case...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

States and Markets in International Climate Change Politics

The research project focuses on assessing the relationship between business preferences and strategies, regulatory and political change, and international regime formation. It develops a conceptual model for analysing the interplay between these variables , which is utilised in the study of inter...

Awarded: NOK 64,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

National Latin-America Network, NorLARNet

Norsk nettverk for Latin-Amerika-forskning (NorLARNet) ble etablert i 2008, med målsetning å øke kunnskapsnivået om Latin-Amerika i Norge ved å knytte forbindelser mellom ulike miljøer i Norge som forsker på Latin-Amerika, fremme kontakt mellom de som sitter på kunnskapen og potensielle brukere a...

Awarded: NOK 20.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2020

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The social and environmental implications of the transnationalization of Central American business

The rise of transnational companies from the South is an emergent phenomenon that is gaining increasing attention form shcolars within the academic fields of economy and political economy. In Latin America the rise of the so called "multilatinas" has been in focus for some years, but most attent...

Awarded: NOK 84,130

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Multi-disciplinary approach to Explaining Differential Immunization Coverage

Although there exist effective vaccines for many life-threatening diseases, access to these technologies remains limited in many low and middle income countries. The proposed project address the question: Why are some low-income countries and communities therein far more successful than others in...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Sustainability for the 21st Century: Overcoming Limitations to Creative Adaptation in Addressing the Climate Challenge

The IPCC is accumulating sufficient evidence to the effect that that the current climate challenge poses a global threat to human survival on an unprecedented scale (IPCC 2007). There is a need for a new paradigm of sustainable development which would bot h take on board the latest climate resear...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Privatización, Desarrollo y Legitimidad: Dinámica política de las reformas de telecomunicaciones en Centroamérica

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Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Ethics, Rights and Poverty: Global Theory and National Practice

Severe poverty is now seen by many as the most burning ethical issue of our time. In recent years, human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to poverty reduction have become particularly popular among UN agencies, bilateral donors and NGOs. Behind this increas ed interest, however, lies a multitude of...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Explaining Differential Immunization Coverage: a multi-disciplinary approach

The Universal Childhood Immunization campaign has been hailed as a success story. At the UNICEF summit in 1990 it was declared that the target had been achieved. Since then, however, immunization coverage has deteriorated. But coverage is highly uneven be tween different countries and regions. In...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

NETT-Stimulerings-/nettverksbygging

NFU-konferanse 2006 - Ethics, Human Rights and Development

NFU-konferansen er en årlig begivenhet som samler de fleste utviklingsforskere til faglige presentasjoner og diskusjoner rundt et forhåndsbestemt tema. Temaet for årets NFU-konferanse er relativt bredt, men fokuserer på etikk og menneskerettigheter innen utviklingsforskning og –politikkutforming....

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse/publisering av boken "Machos, Mistresses and Madonnas: The Power of Latin American Gender Imagery".

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Awarded: NOK 15,000

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Regionalization, the private sector and governance for sustainable development in Latin America

As a parallel strategy to multilateral negotiations on trade and development issues, the United States is currently pursuing bi-lateral and regional strategies. In Latin America, the goal of the US is a hemispheric Free Trade Area (FTAA), but so far only two agreements with a more limited scope h...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Social implications of rural electrification in Zanzibar, Tanzania (field work)

The project is a necessary step for fulfilling the aims of my doctoral dissertation. The proposed fieldwork will enable me to extend the analysis of how electricity has changed social life in a village since its coming in the early 1990s. Updated informat ion and comparisons with my findings duri...

Awarded: NOK 32,800

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Development Ethics and Human Rights as the Basis for Global Poverty Reduction

The aim of the study is to link the ‘why?’ and the ‘how?’ of aid; to critically analyze how ethics and human rights is being, and may be, used to articulate the responsibilities of development agencies and their staff so as to guide and motivate their kno wledge and policies. We take the view tha...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Network on Politics in Developing Country Contexts (PDC)

The basic aim and rationale of the Network continue to be the co-ordination and promotion of (academically) critical research on: - The localisation of political dynamics in developing countries within the framework of neo-liberal globalisation and stat e responses, and - The associated polic...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Norsk visepresident i EADI - reisestøtte

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Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

NETT-Stimulerings-/nettverksbygging

Arrangere Den tredje norske konferansen for Asiastudier - NORASIA III

Nettverk for Asiastudier vil arrangere den tredje norske konferansen for Asiastudier i Bergen høsten 2004. Konferansens program og budsjett er beskrevet i vedlagte søknadsbrev.

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2004

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

The Natural Order of Things: Ideas and Practices of Harmonious Developm. in the 19th-Century Eccentric Europe.

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Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Oslo

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