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LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The Fate of Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations: Bridging Success and Impact

Contributing to the debates on the roles of truth commissions after the end of dictatorship and/or civil war, the project will place focus to an understudied topic in the tranistional justice (TJ) field: The recommendations that truth commissions make whe n they publish their reports. This proje...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

The Voice of China in Africa. Development Models and Communication Strategies.

In the past decade much has been written on China?s increasing importance and growing influence in Africa. So far most of the research has focused on different dimensions of China's economic engagement such as trade, investments and development finance, oil and natural resources and infrastructur...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) - 2013

CMI will organize the Nordic Conference in Development Economics in Bergen in June 2013. The first conference was held in Bergen in 2002, and has since then circulated between the Nordic countries, and within country between different cities. In 2013 the conference will return to Bergen. The con...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

India: Savings Behaviour and the Introduction of Mobile Banking in India

The primary objective of the project is to contribute to the understanding and improvement of financial inclusion policies and public benefit disbursements. We use the introduction of mobile banking in India to: - investigate the behavioral and social barriers to savings - evaluate how mobile ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

India: Agrarian contracts and rural poverty in India

Prosjektgruppa studerer tradisjonelle rurale kontrakter på landsbygda i India. Uformelle kontrakter kan vere komplekse og omfatte relasjonar i fleire marknader (kreditt, arbeid, jord, produkt), og verte påverka av slektskap og kasterelasjonar. Kontraktene kan løyse marknadssvikt, ikkje minst i fo...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

India: Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within India's Federal System

Prosjektet "Landrettigheter og inkluderende, bærekraftig utvikling i Indias føderale system" har undersøkt hvordan lovene som skulle beskytte Indias stammefolk (Adivasier, urfolk) og deres områder, fungerer under en økonomisk politikk som fremmer utvikling gjennom storstilt industrialisering, med...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

GIRLS' ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT - THE BEST CONTRACEPTIVE? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Tanzania

Prosjektet ledes av Chr. Michelsens Institutt og Femina Hip i Tanzania, i samarbeid med The Choice Lab ved Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), The Economic Research Foundation, og Development Pioneer Consultants. Hovedmålet med studien er å bedre vår forståelse for unge kvinners reproduksjonsavgjøre...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Vestland

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksin.forskn

Evaluating the impact of results based financing on health worker performance and health service delivery

We want to host a 2-3 day workshop / conference in Bergen in May 2013 to critical examine how the (increased) use of result based financing (RBF) affect health service delivery in low income countries. The conference will focus on the importance of gettin g a more comprehensive assessment of how ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Vestland

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Right to Property and Economic Development in India Mobile researcher: Namita Wahi, India

The research examines how the Indian Supreme Court has, over the last sixty years, managed tensions between the right to property and the state's power to acquire property for the purposes of social redistribution and economic development. Conventional s cholarly accounts have labelled the Court...

Awarded: NOK 50,500

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Muslim devotional practices, aesthetics, and cultural formation in migrancy

Guided by the project "Muslim devotional practices, aesthetics, and cultural formation in migrancy" the planned international conference and edited volume are guided by the project´s framework and milestones. The international conference is planned for t he 4th and 5th October 2012 with the aim ...

Awarded: NOK 83,189

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Mobility grant for Magnus Hatlebakk visiting Cornell University

Magnus Hatlebakk will visit Cornell Applied-Economics department for three months, September-November 2012. The purpose is to discuss the theoretical and empirical approach in draft papers that will be based on data collected in a number of projects funde d by the Research council of Norway. The ...

Awarded: NOK 51,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Visiting researcher grant for Aziz Hakimi, at CMI Mobile researcher: Aziz Hakimi, UK

The proposed project would enable CMI to host Aziz Hakimi, PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London, for 12 months during the writing up phase of his dissertation. At CMI, Aziz would be part of a group of researchers and PhD candidates focusing on Afgh anistan and on peace and conflict researc...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

INDNOR-India-programmet

Workshop on India within the Social Sciences

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Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Workshop: Girls' Economic Empowerment - The Best Contraceptive? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Tanzania

We use a randomized control trial approach to implement the following treatments: An information campaign on health/reproduction/gender-equality: Our partner Femina HIP has vast experience in working on empowering young women on issues related to reprod uctive health and entrepreneurship, and w...

Awarded: NOK 51,105

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

INDEMB-Indo-Norwegian research and de

Inclusive Growth in India

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Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

The Ethnography of a Divided City: Socio-Politics, Poverty and Gender in Maputo, Mozambique

Med fokus på hovedstaden Maputo i Mosambik vil prosjektet produsere empirisk basert og ny kunnskap omkring sentrale urbane dynamikker, inkludert måten urban fattigdom er romliggjort, stratifisert, kjønnet og politisert. Under gjeldende rapporteringsperiode (2012/13) har en artikkel om hvordan fol...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Publiseringsstøtte for "The politics of ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, power and mobilisation under ethnic federalism"

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Awarded: NOK 34,283

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

The Peace in Between: Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding

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Awarded: NOK 22,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Power and Powerlessness: Religious Minorities in the Middle East

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Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Caught between Rape and Adultery: Women's Fight against Sexual Violence and for Justice in Northern Sudan

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Regulating Religion: Secularism and Religious Freedom in the Global Era

Formålet med 'Regulating Religion: Secularism and Religious Freedom in the Global Era' prosjektet har vært å undersøke forholdet mellom religion og lov, med vekt på hvordan religion forstås og reguleres gjennom et sekulært lovverk og statlige rettsinstanser. Vår grunnleggende hypotese om at lover...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gendering Faith: Palestinian Women and the Islamic Revival

This project will explore the causes and nature of the increasing public religiosity of Muslim women of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Current research on the Islamic Revival in the OPT focuses on political and militant aspects, most notably on Hamas. This research characterises wom...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender of children, education and occupational choice in Nepal

In rural Nepal households appear to have a target of at least two boys with the expectation being that at least one boy may get a good education and either a high income temporary job abroad, or a permanent job at home. In the project we want to test this hypothesis. If the hypothesis is correct...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience

Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience (project # 201412) is a three-year international research project (2010-2013) analysing national experiences with transitional justice in Latin America. It has used a comparative approach to examine trajectories in truth, justi...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Women and Law in Latin America: Justice, Security and Legal Pluralism

There has been a wealth of new research on complex legal pluralism in Latin America, much of it linked to recent multicultural reforms which recognise the right of indigenous communities to exercise their own forms of law (part of the regional turn Van Co tt has termed multicultural constitutiona...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Climate Change Discourse, Rights and the Poor: Scientific Knowledge, International Political Discourse, and Local Voices

Climate change as a scientific issue is now a widely accepted global challenge. Narratives of climate change become central to development discourse, and increasingly frame understandings of other global challenges, such as poverty and health. In this pro ject we ask how climate narratives affect...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Long term poverty dynamics in Nepal.

We combine quantitative and qualitative methodologies to understand long term poverty dynamics in rural Nepal. We conduct life-history interviews with a large random sample of households, preferably with an elderly person in each household. Major events a re recorded, such as child births, separa...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance

Populærvitenskapelig framstilling (2010-14) Massebasert parti Overordnet viser forskningsresultatene fra prosjektet at Hamas stort sett oppfører, organiserer og utvikler seg tråd med de partiteoretiske forventningene. Som så ofte er tilfelle for nye partier begynte også Hamas med radikale mål ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Muslim devotional practices, aesthetics and cultural formation in migrancy

This project proposal focuses on aesthetics and Muslim devotional practices and processes of cultural formation in migrancy. Its point of departure is a broad definition of aestheticization that includes narrative patterns, chronologies and taxonomies whi ch emphasize the relation between sensory...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Governance, Justice and Gender in Afghanistan: Between Informal and Formal Dynamics

The proposed project will examine two aspects of gender relations in Afghanistan; (i) the role of women in processes of local governance, and ii) state intervention in cases of violence against women. The project will take the form of an institutional c ollaboration between the Chr. Michelsen I...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

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