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  Improvement of the water and sanitation situation for IDPs and residential population

  Yme, 2002

  This report focuses on the technical results of the emergency water and sanitation project for internally displaced persons (IDP’s) and the residential population in the Republic of Angola, by Yme as the implementing partner for UNHCR.
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  Agriculture: a way out of poverty

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2003

  This paper reviews the cooperation efforts of Norway and the international community in the agricultural sector, looking at future poverty reduction strategies in the sector and specific recommendations to the Norwegian Ministry.The paper recommends a significant reorientation of Norway’s bilateral and multilateral development assistance in the next few years with the policy objective to increa
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  An assessment of the effects of Norwegian development assistance on poverty reduction and conflict prevention

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2001

  This study assesses the impact of Norwegian aid assistance. Recent research into aid effectiveness has shown that aid is most effective in poverty reduction when it is targeted to countries that are very poor and (among those countries) when it is focused on those that have made substantial progress reforming economic institutions and policies.
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  A strategy for environment in development cooperation

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1997

  The report looks at Norway’s strategy for environment in development cooperation and assistance.Norway’s main objective of environmental assistance is to contribute to a sound management of the global environment and biological diversity.
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  Evaluation of the Norwegian development policy administration

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2003

  This report evaluates Norwegian development cooperation and makes recommendations for reform. It identifies strengths, difficulties and weaknesses in its management programmes.
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  Nkhalango!: a social forestry model: expereinces from Blantyre city fuelwood project in southern Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This book records the successes and failures from the Blantyre City Fuel Wood Project (BCFP) in Southern Malawi. It focuses on the transfer of responsibilities for plantations and indigenous forests to newly created village institutions set up to manage these assets sustainably.It presents a model of best practice, NKHALANGO!
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  Poverty and environmental degradation in the drylands: an overview of problems

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse some of the problems of degradation persisting in the dryland regions with particular reference to Sub-Saharan Africa, and describe the processes that aim to tackle them.It identifies the threat to dryland regions as a complex mixture of degrading soils, continuous exposures to frequent droughts and political and economic marginalisation which is putting poor people
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  Hunger, private property rights, and the right to food

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  This paper questions whether the right to food as a minimum requirement for social and economic welfare, are fully compatible with freedom rights (on which property rights are based) and their implications on private markets.
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  Public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  Aims to assess and compare public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan, set against the current international debate on the topic. It argues that public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan should be thought of as a product of the very different triangular relationship between the state-civil society-business in the two countries.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.

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