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  Liquid dynamics: challenges for sustainability in water and sanitation

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2007

  This STEPS paper reviews past and current debates in the water and sanitation domain and takes initial steps towards developing a framework that might better address the sustainability challenges posed by liquid dynamics.
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  Corruption in natural resource management: an introduction

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008

  Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed with natural resources, these contexts pose a particular challenge for effective donor action.
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  China in Africa: lending, policy space and governance

  Norwegian Council for Africa, 2008

  China has had bad press regarding its involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. Its lack of aid conditionality – particularly in the field of human rights and environmental issues; its apparent disregard for transparency in the loan contraction processes and its general lack of adherence to international standards in responsible funding has caused alarm in the donor community.
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  In the judiciary you are lost without contacts: informal practices in the judiciary of East, Central and Southeast Europe

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2006

  Informal judicial practices, which give rise to corruption, were common in East, Central and Southeast Europe under communist rule. This study seeks to assess the extent to which the scope for such informal practices has reduced in response to the institutional reforms taken up as part of these countries’ accession to the European Union.
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  Manual on the right to water and sanitation

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2007

  There is growing interest among water and sanitation policy makers and practitioners in the contributions of human rights approaches to efforts to extend access to water and sanitation to all. Many actors in the water and sanitation sectors are now aware of human rights-based approaches to development, but are unfamiliar with the precise content of human rights standards.
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  Authority, responsibility and justice in environmental politics

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2007

  This working paper contains seven papers presented at the 8.Nordic Environmental Social Science Research conference held in Oslo in June 2007. The conference looked into how the international community, nations and local communities meet common challenges on the environmental area, particularly focussing on issues of authority, responsibility and justice in environmental politics.
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  Why should donors care about corruption?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008

  This four page brief examines consequentiality and duty-based arguments against corruption. According to the brief, corruption is believed to reduce investment and growth, and to have a disproportionate effect on the poor. More generally, corruption may create serious distortions in the economy.
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  From guerrilla movement to political party: the restructuring of Sudan people’s liberation movement

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2007

  Will the rebel movement in Sudan transform into a political party? This paper is based on a short survey of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) structures, capacity and processes of decision making. It was conducted in the period January - April 2007 in three out of ten states in South Sudan: Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Eastern Equatoria and Jonglei.
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  Primer: human rights and the MDGs - making the link

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007

  While the policies of aid agencies increasingly emphasise the connection between human rights and development, in practice the two concepts often remain on separate, parallel tracks. This primer provides a conceptual overview of the links between human rights and the MDGs and explores the key questions that practitioners face in this area.
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  Donor support to political parties: status and principles

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007

  With financing of political parties a recurrent problem in many developing and transitional countries, donors are increasingly rendering support to political parties - almost always in indirect ways. This paper outlines the modalities, principles and practices of donor support to political parties.

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