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    Norwegian energy cooperation with Bhutan: a summary report

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017
    In 1967 the cooperation between Bhutan and Norway started, when Norwegian missionaries were invited by His Majesty King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck of Bhutan to establish a hospital in Riserboo, Trashigang, in eastern Bhutan. In February 1967 the missionaries laid down the foundation stone for the hospital, built to combat leprosy.
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    Energizing Tanzania: Strategic consideration of possible interventions to support sustainable development and use of bioenergy in Tanzania 2015 - 2025

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015
    Shortage of biomass for cooking energy has been a concern in Tanzania for several decades and several interventions have been tried out (or: tested) in order to improve the situation. Over time, the concern has become more serious due to population growth, urbanisation and increased deforestation as well as increased knowledge of the socioeconomic impacts in the firewood and charcoal sector.
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    What does climate change adaptation mean for humanitarian assistance? Guiding principles for policymakers and practitioners

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Vulnerability to climate change is the result of complex interactions of various social, political, economic and environmental conditions. Humanitarian actions, while often having short-term and ‘neutral’ intentions, necessarily influence the development pathways that define people’s vulnerability to climate change.
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    Rethinking food aid in a chronically food-insecure region: Effects of food aid on local power relations and vulnerability patterns in Northwestern Nepal

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    The impacts of repeated food aid programmes on households’ livelihood strategies and capacity to adapt to stressors such as climate change were investigated in the chronically food-insecure district of Humla in Nepal, using food security as an entry point for analysing vulnerability.
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    Climate change adaptation through humanitarian aid? Promises, perils and potentials of the ‘New Humanitarianism’

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    A major reform of the humanitarian sector is currently under way, focusing increasingly on the prevention of crises rather than on providing relief once crises have occurred. This article examines whether and how this new humanitarian approach can also improve people’s ability to adapt to climate change.
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    Freedom, empowerment and opportunities: action plan for women's rights and gender equality in foreign and development policy 2016-2020

    Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2016
    The fundamental aim of Norway’s gender equality efforts is to increase the opportunities available to women and girls, promote their right to self-determination, and further their empowerment. This is crucial if girls, boys, women and men are to have equal rights and equal opportunities.
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    Mozambique: evaluation portrait

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016
    "Evaluation Portraits" give short summaries of documents used as background for NORAD's series of "Country Evaluation Briefs" (CEB). Each CEB is accompanied with an Evaluation Portrait which may later be updated with new links to relevant evaluations.
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    Mozambique

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016
    This brief on Mozambique is part of a report series from the Evaluation Department – "Country Evaluation Briefs" (CEB) – collecting and summarising existing evaluation findings from selected Norwegian focus countries.
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    South Sudan: evaluation portrait

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016
    "Evaluation Portraits" give short summaries of documents used as background for NORAD's series of "Country Evaluation Briefs" (CEB). Each CEB is accompanied with an Evaluation Portrait which may later be updated with new links to relevant evaluations.
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    South Sudan

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016
    This brief on South Sudan is part of a report series from the Evaluation Department – "Country Evaluation Briefs" (CEB) – collecting and summarising existing evaluation findings from selected Norwegian focus countries.

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