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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Seed security: a multilevel perspective on seed system development in Ethiopia

Summary This project aims to explore seed systems as social-ecological systems with an emphasis on agro-ecological, social, cultural, economic and political variables through a case study of seed system development in Ethiopia. In recent years, strengthening of seed systems has gained prominence...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL2-Norge - Global partner

SkattJakt II, Prosjekt 249691: Fase I videreføres her.

Questions related to illegal capital flight, taxation, and the utilisation of natural resources are some of the most important in the contemporary development debate. NUPI coordinates the TaxCapDev Network together with CMI, and this network brings together Norwegian researchers and experts. The ...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender Equality, Peace and Security in Nepal and Myanmar (WOMENsPEACE)

This project focuses on the gender dimension of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process in Nepal and on the gender dimension of the peace process in Myanmar. It investigates the consequences of peace and DDR processes for post-conflict gender equality, women and men's soci...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

New Afghan Men? Marriage, Masculinities and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Afghanistan (AFMEN)

Since 2001, the question of gender relations and women's rights in Afghanistan has been a topic of extensive debate within Afghanistan as well as abroad. Much of the focus, however, has been on women's experiences, with less attention to how ideals of manhood affect both men and women. Older lite...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Competing discourses impacting girls and womens rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

The project has examined policies, discourses and practices related to fertility control and abortion among adolescents in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. As deeply embedded in religious and socio-cultural norms about sexuality, reproduction and gender relations, fertility control and abortion are...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Seed Systems and Climate Change: Examining Agrobiodiversity Resilience in the Andes, project period: 02.01. - 31.03.2017.

No popular science presentation in the period.

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Natural resources and rural development in western Balkans: translation and communication

In the period 2011 to 2014 we conducted an ambitious research project in the mountains of the western Balkans. This work built on a previous research project from 2007 to 2010. During the last few years we have been trying to wrap up the analysis and communicate the results. The project?s overall...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The SkattJakt Network. Videreføres gjennom prosjekt 263392.

Effektiv fattigdoms bekjempelse og bærekraftig utvikling må være basert på et lands egen inntekt. Dette betyr at det er avgjørende for fattige lands utvikling at de er i stand til å iverksette egne effektive regimer og institusjoner for å innkreve skatt. Dette er en krevende øvelse i seg selv og ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Strategies of symbolic nation-building in West Balkan states: intents and results, translations of English texts into local languages

?Nation-building? as defined in this project consists of two elements. 1. Deliberate homogenization of the population?s political-cultural identity; and 2. Policies to link this identity to the state. The project concentrates on symbolic nation-building, meaning state strategies for the manufactu...

Awarded: NOK 91,999

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

There is a renewed interest to close the agricultural productivity gap in Africa. Donors and African governments alike share this enthusiasm with the African Union declaring 2014 as the year of agriculture and food security, and for feeding Africa through new technologies. The call for an African...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Upgrading the Nicaraguan dual purpose value chain through system dynamic modelling

In Nicaragua, dairy and beef production is often the most important household income source. Several factors, however, limit the participation of small scale cattle farmers in cattle value chains. The quantity of milk produced by small scale farmers is us ually low, characterized by high seasonal...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Agricultural Carbon Finance, Food Security, and the World Bank's Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP)

Recognizing the challenges that interrelated fuel, environmental, and financial crises pose to the global food system, a range of actors have begun to explore possibilities for promoting the 'sustainable intensification of agriculture'. Specifically, and in acknowledgement of the risks for smallh...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Follow the money: the role of cross-border networks in natural resource extraction, stolen assets recovery and tax havens and capital flows

From petroleum exploration off the coast to mineral extraction in the interior of the continent, natural resource wealth is potentially an important source of fiscal revenue for African governments. This is particularly important as most African countries face narrow domestic revenue bases in whi...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL2-Norge - Global partner

Aid in Crisis? Rights-Based Approaches and Humanitarian Outcomes

The human rights framework is a cornerstone of Norwegian foreign policy, including its humanitarian policy. Humanitarian action is based on principles of neutrality and impartiality. Human rights is about justice, politics and redistribution. How do the two go together? The rights-based approa...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2023

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

ERAfrica: Development of an advanced power-generation with min. carbon emission from hybrid fuel supplies

The AdPowGen project with partners from Norway, Belgium, Turkey, Egypt and South Africa, targeted to develop and demonstrate an advanced gas turbine based power generation system using various sources of renewable energy (RE) and alternative fuel to replace fossil fuel based ones. The high energy...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Visiting research stay at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC., USA.

This research visit at the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI) is an integral and the final part of my phd. project. Prior to the visit I will have conducted and finished fieldworks and data collecting activities related to other organizations with in the international agricultural develop...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

HydroAid: Effective Support for Energy and Development?

Access to energy is important for development, and energy has been high on the agenda of donors. Supporting hydropower development was seen as a key ingredient to ensure energy security in countries with such potential. However, increasing attention to the negative social and environmental impact...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Regendering the gender debate: reflections on choices and constraints in teaching and researching gender issues cross-culturally

Given the current emphasis on gender mainstreaming, gender equality and empowerment of women in the South we propose an event highlighting the importance of context and lived experience. In particular, the aim is to discuss how to teach and do research on gender issues. The seminar also allows f...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Agder

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

ERAfrica: ADVANCED HYDROGEN ENERGY SYSTEMS

The project ADVANCED HYDROGEN ENERGY SYSTEMS (2014-2018) contributes to the thematic area "Renewable Energies" and targets development of the advanced, integrated with solar energy highly efficient hydrogen energy systems. A conversion of renewables into two complementary energy carriers, first i...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Conflict of Interest? Business For Peace as Development Aid in Volatile Environments

This project sought to determine the conditions under which businesses can move beyond "doing no harm" in the fragile and conflict-affected societies where they work to deliver more tangible positive peace dividends. This four-year study of corporate peacebuilding explored initiatives across a ra...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Partipication in the AETFAT congress for three female African PhD graduates/students

The three female students are Catherine Aloyce Masao from Tanzania (PhD obtained), Tusiime Felly Mugizi from Uganda(PhD thesis soon to be submitted), and Tigist Wondimu from Ethiopia(PhD obtained). They will present their PhD work at the most important in ternational congress on African plants, t...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Mapping Gender-based Violence and Access to Justice: Retraditionalization in Liberia (GENTRA)

The fight against sexual violence has been a main objective for the UN in Liberia, while we have studied what the situation is for women affected by sexual violence and their opportunities to seek justice through the judicial system. We also aimed to contribute to capacity building through establ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender in Politics in Somalia: Access and influence in a post-conflict state

Etter at Somalia ble selvstendig i 1960, har landet i stor grad vært preget av ustabilitet, konflikt og en dårlig fungerende sentralmakt. I president Siad Barres regjeringstid (1970-1991) oppnådde kvinnene en sterkere stilling, og de ble aktivt engasjert e i politikk på lokalt og nasjonalt nivå....

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC: A PRIO-ICART Partnership

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been named one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. This project has focused on what works to improve the situation for women in eastern DRC, a region with massive levels of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The project has...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Violence against women and criminal justice in Afghanistan

Violence against women has emerged as perhaps the single most important issue for women's rights activism and gender-oriented development aid in Afghanistan since 2001. Efforts to counter such violence have mostly focused on strengthening the Afghan government's ability to prosecute and punish pe...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Engineering gender equality: The effects of aid on womens political representation in Malawi, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia

The project looks at the effects of aid on women's substantive (acting for women) representation in Malawi, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia. Specifically, the project explores whether gendered aid is most efficient in countries where there is a high degree of descriptive representation and a visible wo...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Democratisation, Political Participation, and Gender in Malawi

This project has examined the opportunities and obstacles for women to increase their political involvement in Malawi. We have examined the effects of female representation within three arenas where politics are played out; the executive branch (President's Office/Government), the Parliament/legi...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Political Economy of Governance in Malawi

Dette tverrfaglige prosjektet i skjæringspunktet mellom statsvitenskap og sosialantropologi vil bidra til en bedre forståelse av hvordan politikk drives i Malawi i dag, nasjonalt så vel som lokalt. Tre elementer i det politiske systemet og samspillet dem imellom blir studert: (a) den offentlige f...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

What Works? Why? And for Whom? Impact of Norwegian and Chinese Development Assistance in Malawi and Zambia

Kina og Norge ser ut til å anvende veldig forskjellige bistandsmodeller. Norges bistand karakteriseres av generøse overføringer av midler som er øremerket for aktiviteter relatert til å fremme likestilling, menneskerettigheter, demokratisk styresett og klimasmart jordbruk. Påtroppende norske regj...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Taxation, Institutions and Participation (TIP): The Dynamics of Capital Flows from Angola, Tanzania and Zambia

The Taxation, Institutions and Participation (TIP) project has investigated the effects of tax havens on the domestic revenue system, institutions and citizen participation in African countries, with a particular focus on Angola, Tanzania and Zambia. To improve the living standards of their citiz...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Vestland

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