Middle East and North Africa
Latest Documents
- Syrian women and girls: fleeing death, facing ongoing threats and humiliation. A gender-based violence rapid assessment
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2012
- At the time this assessment was written, estimates suggested that up to 90,000 Syrian refugees had crossed the border into Lebanon. The International Rescue Committee conducted a rapid assessment on the situation faced by Syrian women and g...
- Would Syria’s agricultural sector benefit from an east-Mediterranean common market?
- M. Babili / AgEcon Search, 2013
- The series of recent economic sanctions against Syria imposed by several countries and blocs sparkled the idea of a regional common market that comprises Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. This paper looks into the actual possibility of establi...
- The Norwegian People's Aid, oil and development. A review of Oil for the Common Good (2007-2011)
- E. N. Tjonneland 2012
- The NPA has since 2007 implemented an Oil for the Common Good programme (OCG) with funding from Norad’s Oil for Development programme. The main purpose is to contribute to strengthening democratic control and participation in decision-makin...
- New Horizons and New Visions: Mobilizing Communities for Girls’ Education in Egypt
- Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2005
- This brief describes the work of the New Visions education programme in Egypt, which is designed to build the life skills of boys and young men, increasing gender sensitivity and reproductive health knowledge. The programme ran between 2002...
- No revolutions without equality and justice: the struggle for women’s rights in rethinking development in the Arab region
- K Mohamadieh / The World We Want, 2012
- This article considers policy practice in the Arab region, highlighting some key areas for consideration in future policy making in the region. The peoples’ revolutions and uprisings in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Libya have,...
- Climate-driven or human-induced: indicating severe water scarcity in the Moulouya river basin (Morocco)
- V. Tekken / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012
- Many agriculture-based economies are increasingly under stress from climate change and socio-economic pressures. In the Moulouya river basin, Morocco, natural water availability is a key resource for all economic activities and frequently o...
- Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries: a case for adaptation governance and leadership in building climate resilience
- D. Verner / World Bank, 2012
- The Arab people have been adapting to climate change for thousands of years, but over the next century global climatic variability is predicted to increase unprecedentedly. This report assesses the potential effects of climate change on the...
- From Climate Antagonists to Low-Carbon Protagonists? The Changing Role of the Gulf OPEC States in the UNFCCC
- A. Michaelowa / Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
- Surging domestic energy consumption in the Gulf region is increasingly threatening oil and gas export revenues. The United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are initiating multiple experiments to improve energy efficiency and introduce ...
- Building Our Capabilities to Support Transformative Change in the MENA Region
- A. Rathmell 2012
- The transitional states of the Middle East and North Africa (e.g. Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt) provide an opportunity for the UK and its partners to support lasting positive change. However, in order to do so, we need to go beyond our tradition...
- Adaptive capacity of transboundary basins in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Sahel
- A. Milman / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2012
- Responses to climate change in a transboundary river basin depend not on national and subnational capacities alone, but also on the ability of co-riparian nations to communicate, coordinate and cooperate across their international boundary....
