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UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

The Moral Rationale for Aid - a qualitative study and critical discussion of the normative basis for Norwegian international aid

What is the moral rationale for aid? By ‘moral rationale’ I mean the set of arguments and reasons given to explain, justify or give legitimacy to the involvement in international aid that explicitly refer to moral norms, values or ethical principles. In t his study I will examine key policy docum...

Awarded: NOK 63,472

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Change agents or cultural reproducers? A study of teachers' influence on school-based HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study will contribute to a better understanding of factors that influences school-based adolescent HIV/AIDS prevention. A broader perspective and better understanding on the importance of teachers’ role and the cultural context, will meet the needs that have been formulated by a number of a...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

The Poor and the Judiciary

Poverty reduction and promotion of social rights are usually seen as matters of policy and not legal adjudication. However, in recent years we have seen that poor groups in different parts of the world choose to mobilise through the legal system in order to claim their social rights. In some case...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

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

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Stigma and self-representations. An anthropological study on poverty and disability in South Africa.

In South Africa, the link between disability and poverty are understood politically. The two categories are mutually dependent: the one cannot be conceived without the other. The poster on the front page is one example on how this perspective has been pre sented to the public. In policy plans, di...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Trade, growth and governance

In recent research there has been growing interest in economic integratin, economic growth and governance. In many studies however, these topics are studied in isolation without analysing their interdepence. In this project we seek to do studies which lin k together globalisation, economic growth...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Land, Water and Poverty in Southern Africa: Breaking with the Past

Africa, including southern Africa continues to have the highest proportions of its populations living in rural areas. Poverty continues to be most concentrated in rural areas while agricultural production remains central to most economies. Thus, the re- emergence of land reform combined with wa...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Akershus

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Delivery as Trauma: a study of maternal and perinatal mortality in Cambodia

Study problem: Maternal death rates in the South remain high, figures ranging from 0.8% (Africa, Cambodia) to 1.6% (Afghanistan) compared to estimated 24/100,000 for Europe. Corresponding death rates for newborn are 8 - 10 times as high. Previous interven tions to reduce mortality have had in com...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Community-based develeopement programmes and poverty targeting; pro-poor accountability and leadership diciplining in Malawi

The objective of this project is to study the relation ship between elite capture and poverty targeting in connection with implementation of community-based development programme. This will be done by examining the working of three community-based develop ment programmes in Malawi; i) the Wold Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Growing up in Ethiopia. A study of the lives of orphans and working children

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Politics of poverty alleviation and democratisation in northeast Sri Lanka

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Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

NGOs and Civil Society Research Network

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Vestland

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

The Use of Human Rights Norms and Grassroots Advocacy to Secure Access

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Community Participation in the implementations of the Global Environmental Conventions and poverty alleviation

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Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Akershus

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Network for HIV-related research with relevance to interventions in low-income countries

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Growth, openness and poverty in South-Africa and Thailand

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Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Network for Research and Evaluation on Education and Development - NETREED, 2004-2007

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Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Social movements and urban governance in South Africa. The struggle for adequate housing in Cape Town and Durban

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Poverty Politics: Changing approaches to its production and reduction

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Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

The silent emergency: child malnutrition in India

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

The right to food and the TRIPS agreement

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Intellectual property rights to genetic resources: Prospects for a "Sui Generis" path for developing countries

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Akershus

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Globalisation processes in Himalaya mountain communities: Marginalisation or development?

Prosjektet skal belyse effekten av globalisering, global oppvarming og internasjonalisering på fjell-landsbyer i Himalaya, Nepal. Global oppvarming og internasjonalisering kan ha negative effekter på fjellsamfunn, men de kan også skape, nye muligheter. Kl imaendring har direkte effekt på isbreene...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Vestland

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Towards a capacity framework to realise the right to food in the context of HIV/AIDS: Examples from South Africa and Uganda

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Local knowledge and development. Resource management in indigenous irrigation, North-Eastern Tanzania.

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Globalisation, transnational environmental mobilisation and forest policies: Brazil and Indonesia in crisis - 1997-2001

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Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Norwegian network on ICT and development

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Gender aspects of conflict interventions: intended and unintended consequences

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Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Oslo

UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Institutional development in the Palestina Authority Areas. Conditions and criteria of institutional development and capacity - AVBRUDT!!!

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Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Oslo

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