137 projects

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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Large land deals in Africa: Gendered processes of tenure security, resource capture and collective action

For centuries global economic expansion has lead to conflicts over land tenure and changes in production systems. In recent years a wave of international land investments or 'land grabs', driven by global food, energy and climate change crises, have recei ved media attention and led to new resear...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Security Transitions in the Western Balkans - From Conflict Zone to Security Community?

A core objective is to strengthen the capacity of social science research institutions in the Western Balkans and assist them in building a sustainable regional research network. Through seminars, workshops and research, the project aims to assist Western Balkans researchers to join European and...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

How land titling affect the use of common natural resources in Peru

This project willl investigate the effect of the Peruvian land titling program on the use of the remaining common resources in rural highland communities. The Special Land Titling and Cadastre Project (PETT) in Peru has over the last decade issued titles for over 5.8 million agricultural plots, ...

Awarded: NOK 43,499

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Human rights and gender dimensions of water governance in Africa: Actors, norms and institutions

The project addresses the right to water for personal, domestic and livelihood uses and the right to equal participation in water governance in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Unequal distribution of water sources and water related domestic duties, hamper women's social and economic rig...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation for small island developing states

(At max length) People, communities, and livelihoods in United Nations designated Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are considered particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, yet have also proven adept at adapting to past changing conditions. N evertheless, the rate and magnitude of cl...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Significance of Political Organization and International Law for Displaced Women in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De Mujeres

Dette prosjektet har undersøkt hvor viktig politisk mobilisering og organisering er for at internt fordrevne (IDP) kvinner i Colombia skal få oppfyllt sine menneskerettigheter. Samtidig som Colombia er et konstitusjonelt demokrati med en sterk administrativ stat og høy økonomisk vekst, så er la...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

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

Fertility and Poverty: The role of gender and reproductive health

Fertility has dropped below the replacement level in an increasing number of countries. The falls cut across world regions, economic development, cultures and religions. Within this general trend large variations prevail. Eastern Africa is a particular ca se where fertility remains high. Kenya st...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Large developing economies: current and potential future contributions to climate change

The main focus of this project is to improve the knowledge basis for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios for China and India by considering a wider set of emissions and by studying the impact of the development process and policies of China and India on global warming. A core issue in glob...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Implications of high fertility in developing countries - a multilevel analysis based on DHS data

see objectives above Obviously, such knowledge about how important it is to try to reduce fertility and how socieoeconomic development may help in achieving that is of great value to politicians and planners at several levels in several countries.

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Mobile Livelihoods and Gendered Citizenship: the Counter-Geographies of Indigenous People in India, China and Laos.

Indigenous people have been increasingly portrayed as marginalized victims with no rights. However, there has been little emphasis on their lived realities, namely how they strategize to survive on a day to day basis. Mobility is becoming a major coping s trategy, and the implications of mobile l...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Solar Learning: Facilitating South-South-North transfer of social and technological innovations on solar energy

The proposed workshop is part of an international, social science based research project funded by the Research Council of Norway and carried out by a group of researchers and practitioners from Norway, Kenya, India and Austria. This project will investig ate Indian experiences with implementatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Influence of Snow and Ice Changes on Water Resources in Himalaya

The Himalayas-Hindu Kush, Kunlun Shan, Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges function as water towers, providing water to people through much of Asia. The glacier and snow-fed rivers originating from the mountain ranges surrounding the Tibetan Plateau comp rise the largest river run-off from any s...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

West African Reproductive Health Costs An in depth study into associations between poverty and access to emergency pregnancy health care

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Fertility outcomes and the roles of children in household risk management strategies in rural West Africa: the cases of Senegal and Benin

The relationship between fertility and growth is often seen in view of a child quality-quantity trade-off. Low fertility allows for higher human capital investments per child, and thus considered favorable to economic development. On another front, good r isk management is seen as a key to growth...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Cooking with the sun - a comparative country analysis of Solar Cooking, its adoption and impacts on people's lives

The project concerns general challenges realted to development and implementation of solar cookers in a rural African enviroment. A new small scale concentrating solar energy system with a high temperature heat storage is beeing developed in a research collaboration between NTNU and 5 African ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Benin

Entomology: Intensive diagnoses for aphid pests at 31 vegetable sites across Benin show that 22 vegetable species and 15 weed species were favourite hosts of the aphids. The aphid pest list includes a) Aphis gossipii G. (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Abelmosch us esculentus (okra), Capsicum frutescenc...

Awarded: NOK 76,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Pests and pest risk factors in Jatropha plantations in West Africa

Jatropha curcas is a shrub in the species rich family Euphorbiaceae, which has become extensively cultivated in various parts of the world, mainly for its high oil content, particularly in the seeds to be used in the production of bio-diesel. Being extrem ely drought tolerant, J. curcas can be cu...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2017

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Violence in the Post-Conflict State, Phase II: Gender-based violence in post-2001 Afghanistan

The PhD project will constitute the second phase of the larger, RCN-funded project Violence in the Post-Conflict State. The PhD looks specifically at gender-based violence in post-2001 Afghanistan, seeking to understand the impact of decades of war and th e particular features of the post-Taliban...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty, disability and access to social welfare in the Peoples Republic of China

The overall objective of this project is to describe and analyse the links between disability and poverty as found in poor, rural communities in two regions - Gansu province and Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) - in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). By a pplying a grass-root approach, based on q...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Legal Pluralism

This project seeks to explore the relationship between complex legal pluralities and gendered forms of poverty. By shaping opportunities for personal autonomy, political participation and access to economic resources (such as education, health, land, wat er or employment), complex legal pluralit...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Comparative Microbial Risk Assessment of Centralized and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment as Health Risk Barrier for Irrigation in Ghana

Worldwide, at least 3.5 to 4 million hectares of agricultural fields in 50 countries are irrigated with raw, partially diluted and treated wastewater. Wastewater irrigation, apart from the valuable plant nutrients it provides, also serves as conduit for e mployment generation, food security and e...

Awarded: NOK 67,499

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty traps in industries with low knowledge- and investment barriers

We study barriers to investment in industries with low knowledge- and investment barriers. We focus on people who have the necessary knowledge and potential access to credit, but do not make apparently profitable investments. We conduct a case study of ri ckshaw cyclists who is renting a bicycle,...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Linkages between Rural Institutions and Redistributional Networks: Ag. Marketing Coops, Corruption, and Patrimonialism in East Africa

The research subjects of this study are poor African farmers and the marketing institutions that are available to them. These institutions may be any of a range of marketing institutions, from single individuals who serve as intermediaries between farmers and markets, who buy agricultural output...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Møre og Romsdal

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Social networks, labour transactions and outcomes: A theoretical and empirical study of migrant workers, and their employers, in South-Asia.

We study motives and explanations for network use in labour transactions in low income countries and the implications for employers, and in particular for the segment of poor unskilled workers. One explanation favoured among economists is that networks ar e vehicles for effective information tran...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Unravelling the Vicious Circle: Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Small-scale Fisheries

In this project we question how poverty can be alleviated through ecosystem-based management of natural resources. Alleviating poverty sometimes requires strategies which are inherently in conflict. This is particularly the case in economies based on natu ral resources. As one seeks to reduce pov...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Flammable Societies: The Role of Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility

Through the development of a series of comparative case studies in present-day Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union we propose to explore the way in which the current concerns for social responsibility in the international oil and gas industry are transferred into concrete s...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Decentralization as a strategy for resolving conflict?

For several decades governments in developing countries have placed spatial decentralization of responsibilities and resources to lower levels of government high on their political agenda. The principal objectives of decentralization have been down-sizing of central governments, responsive servi...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

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