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    Sanitation for all: an engine of economic growth for urban Africa. About time to get the shit out of town?

    2011
    Improved sanitation facilitates improvements in human health, it enhances prospects for education and work, as well as personal security and dignity and has a positive impact on the environment. In this way, sanitation has a pivotal role in achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals. Human excreta can be viewed as waste or a resource.
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    Investments in deep water: The pension fund’s holdings in destructive dam projects

    2011
    Through the Government Pension Fund (hereby referred to as The Fund) income from the Norwegian oil activities is invested in foreign security. This report is divided into three parts. The first part deals with how The Fund is managed with a focus on the Central Bank of Norway and the Ethical Council’s work in relation to the ethical guidelines.
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    Final evaluation report. Southern Toliara marine natural resources management

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
    The overall goal of this project is that local communities benefit from and contribute to the conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity in the southern Toliara region, Madagascar, through the sustainable use and participatory management of living marine and coastal resources, in collaboration with local fishermen, the Malagasy Fisheries Administration, collectors, retailers and the local pop
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    Midterm review of the National Integrated Pest Management Programme in Nepal, Phase II

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The purpose of the midterm review was to assess the programme performance against its target and to suggest potential corrective measures for the rest of the programme period. The evaluation team finds that the design of the programme remains relevant despite changing contexts. Implementation is going well and progress is satisfactory.
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    Management for adaptation to climate change. Mid-term review of a project implemented by Total Land Care, Malawi

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The Management for Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project in Malawi is implemented by Total Land Care (TLC) with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Malawi and a 5 years time frame from 2008 to mid 2013.
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    Corruption and REDD+: Identifying risks amid complexity

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2012
    Corruption and other factors can influence deforestation in contradictory ways. For the purpose of country-level implementation of REDD+, donors should focus particularly on three corruption risk areas: land grabbing and tenure rights, fraud in monitoring, evaluation and reporting, and elite capture of REDD+ revenues.
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    Evaluation of Norwegian People’s Aid Development Programme in Ethiopia

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2012
    Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) has provided support to Ethiopia since 1984, and established its office in the country in 2006.
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    Blue Carbon - First Level Exploration of Blue Carbon in the Arabian Peninsula, with Special Focus on the UAE and Abu Dhabi. A Rapid Feasibility Study 2011.

    GRID Arendal, 2011
    Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
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    Changing Taiga: Challenges for Mongolia’s Reindeer Herders

    GRID Arendal, 2012
    Mongolia’s reindeer herders and their taiga homeland are today facing unprecedented challenges from unregulated mining, forest logging, loss of access to natural resources, tourism, and climate change. The Dukha herders and their ancestors have lived for centuries in this fragile transition region on the edge of the steppes, practising an ancient and unique form of reindeer husbandry and helping
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    Why value the oceans? A discussion paper

    2012
    Oceans cover almost three-quarters of the planet, yet we are just beginning to discover the extent of the resources beneath their surfaces. We are also just beginning to understand the complexity of the interactions that tie oceans to the rest of Earth’s systems. And then there is the coastal biome, where vital ecosystem services are most vulnerable.

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