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  Review of post-crisis Multi-Donor Trust Funds

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007

  This paper sets out the main findings of a joint review of MDTF performance in post-crisis situations and seeks to identify what arrangements work best. It concludes that MDTFs have been a useful instrument for joint action in post-crisis situations and that donors should consider strengthening them.
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  Contributing to the scientific literature: citation analysis of CIFOR publications

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2005

  This paper documents a citation-counting exercise, listing the amount of times that CIFOR work was referenced in journal articles. The study examined a total of 1437 publications over the period from 1993 to mid-2004.The main findings are:of the 1437 publications, 24% have been cited.
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  The polyscopic landscape of poverty research: “state of the art” in international poverty research

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2005

  This paper discusses major trends in poverty research and identifies promising research results that might form a useful base for further research on causes, processes and formations of poverty in the South.The report consists of four parts:a polyscopic landscape of poverty research, outlining the directions that some of the major actors in poverty research have taken and points to some
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  Doing interdisciplinary research on development and the environment: critical reflections on SUM’s experience

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2005

  This paper presents the experiences which the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) of the University of Oslo has gained from the last 10 years of undertaking interdisciplinary research on development and environment.Lessons learned are:the link from research to policy does not, in practice, proceed according to a linear, rational model, based simply on reliable ‘evidence’ -
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  Breakthrough for "the South"?: an analysis of the recognition of farmers' rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2004

  This paper looks at the influence of developing countries on international environmental negotiations, specifically at the negotiations around the 7 years of negotiation around the recent International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).
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  Biodiversity conservation, communication and language: is English a solution, a problem or both?

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2004

  Biodiversity conservation is becoming a global agenda operating on an equally global arena. The name if the game is communication and collaboration across cultures and languages, facilitated by ICTs.
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  Competence and capacity for agricultural development in Malawi: an overview of institutions involved in knowledge generation, training and extension in agriculture and natural resource management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This study looks at how science-based competence and capacity for agriculture in Malawi are organised and how human resources in these fields are trained and utilised.
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  Breaking the circle: which ways out of poverty?: report from the [Norwegian] Planning Committee to consider research on poverty reduction

  Research Council of Norway / Norges forskningsråd, 2003

  Planning Committee report on how to formulate a strategic plan for strengthening poverty research in Norway.The report begins by reviewing how policy documents articulate the need for research-based knowledge, which call for insights and solutions that support both the “new poverty agenda” and the demand for independent views and counter-expertise.
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  Forced migration, resource conflicts and development

  Research Council of Norway / Norges forskningsråd, 2004

  Evaluation of a Norwegian funded research programme which was focused on issues of: internal displacement; types of migration and repatriation; the role of environmental factors in analyzing causes and impacts of flight.
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  CBNRM Net: knowledge management and networking for the global CBNRM community of practice

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2002

  The paper looks at the growing importance of knowledge networking (especially electronic networking), theoretical models of networks and their particular importance in the NGO sector.Using the experience of the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, the paper assesses some of the issues currently facing the global NGO sector, more specifically civil society and NGOs in the South.

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