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  The Shelf Programme: A decade of successfully helping to secure the sovereign maritime rights of developing coastal states

  GRID Arendal, 2015

  Not so long ago there was real concern that many developing States would not make the United Nations imposed deadline for lodging submissions for extended continental shelf. We can now look back on ten years of successful capacity building, technical and scientific support and see the tangible results of the pioneering Shelf Programme.
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  REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015

  Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have emerged as a means to address deforestation trends in developing countries and related emissions of forest carbon. Governance and corruption challenges facing REDD+ are widely acknowledged to be daunting both in their scale and severity.
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  Norway’s municipal international cooperation - results achieved and lessons learnt

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2015

  Municipal International Cooperation (1997-2014) was a programme involving municipalities in Norway and the Global South. It was managed by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This report sums up results and identifies lessons to be learnt for a possible future scheme.
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  National-level corruption risks and mitigation strategies in the implementation of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An overview of the current situation

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015

  The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the first REDD+ target countries due its huge forest ecosystem potential. Since 2011, the country has been creating key pieces of legislation as well as implementing REDD+ readiness activities and making pilot investments to mitigate some of the key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation identified in the country.
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  Final evaluation of the Regional Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Capacity Building Programme for Southern Africa

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

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  Reality Checks Mozambique. Building better understanding of the dynamics of poverty and well - being. Year four, 2014. Sub-Report, District of Lago

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  A series of five “Reality Checks in Mozambique” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focussing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being with a particular focus on good governance, agriculture/employment/ climate and entrepreneurship that are key result areas in Swedish development cooperation with the country.
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  Towards REDD+ Integrity: opportunities and challenges for Indonesia

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015

  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become a cornerstone of Indonesia’s forest sector policies. Given corruption risks in the sector, a number of policies and initiatives – both specifically linked to REDD+ and to broader national reform efforts – have been launched to ensure that risks of corruption in REDD+ are minimised.
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  Diversification of the Angolan economy

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  Angola has the second most concentrated economy in the world, oil representing more than 97 per cent of its exports in 2011. Concentration has increased since independence in 1975, and since the end of the civil war in 2002. This policy brief takes a look at the current state of diversification in Angola and its evolution in the decades going back to independence.
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  Beyond the thumrule approach: regulatory Innovations for bioprospecting in India

  2015

  In the wake of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), there is unprecedented attention on good Green Governance, which implies the development of resource efficient, rights based and effective domestic frameworks to regulate bioprospecting. India has been pioneering in this regard due to its ABS legislation in 2002 that long preceded the Nagoya Protocol.
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  Good governance facades

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015

  Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional façades; pretty from the outside, ugly from the inside. A good governance façade can be introduced deliberately to mislead observers and stakeholders to cover political theft.

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