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Debt Relief for Development: a plan of action
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004This short paper details the principal facts, figures and policy highlights of the Norwegian Government’s plan of action to tackle global debt relief.The paper highlights facts and figures such as:Norway was the first OECD country to advocate 100 % debt cancellation for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)Norway was the first OECD country to present a comprehensive Plan of ActionDocumentCSOs and SWAPs: the role of civil society organisations in the health sector in Mozambique
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003This report is based on a case study of the involvement of civil society in health issues in Mozambique.DocumentThe role of social relations in farmer seed systems and reconstruction of agricultural production in a post-disaster situation
LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004This article looks at seed flow in the post-flood situation experienced by Southern Mozambique in the year 2000. It looks at the local processes of seed acquisition based on the traditional values of help and solidarity. Too often seed relief programmes are based on the assumption that farmers themselves are not able to rehabilitate their seeds in times of crisis.DocumentPrivate sector development study: Angola
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.DocumentFighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004Under this Norwegian strategy, development assistance for agricultural development will be scaled up considerably. The plan sets out 50 measures for promoting agricultural development in developing countries.It takes a holistic approach in which agricultural development is part of a broader strategy for private sector development that considers the entire production chain from field to table.DocumentFighting poverty together: a comprehensive development policy [White Paper on Norwegian development policy]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2004This white paper is the first report to the Storting on development policy to be submitted for eight years. The report takes the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as its starting point.DocumentCan Food-for-Work Programmes reduce vulnerability?
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003This paper looks at how, when and why Food for Work (FFW) programmes can reduce vulnerability. Is it most effective as short-term insurance, a longer-term rehabilitation and development intervention, or both? The paper argues for the subjecting FFW transfers to an initial geographic targeting based on the three criteria of food and labour market performance and general morbidity status.DocumentCBNRM Net: knowledge management and networking for the global CBNRM community of practice
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2002The 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.DocumentThe culture of power in contemporary Ethiopian political life
SIDA Studies, 2003This paper looks at the culture of power and politics in Ethiopia, focusing on the nature and potential of political opposition to the ruling party, EPRDF. It argues that, for at least the next 10 years, there seem to be few viable national alternative political forces to the parties of the EPRDF.