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Evaluation of Norway’s support to women’s rights and gender equality in development cooperation
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015The report evaluates Norway’s support to strengthening women and girls ‘rights and gender equality through its development cooperation. It assesses the extent to which results have been achieved and whether they are in line with the Action plan for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in development cooperation and its four thematic priorities.DocumentReview of Norad´s Assistance to gender mainstreaming in the energy and petroleum sector 2010-2014
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015BackgroundDocumentA Presentation of EnPe: The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development within the fields of Energy and Petroleum (EnPe 2013-2019)
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015The aim of the programme is to strengthen capacity of higher education institutions in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) to educate more and better qualified candidates, and to increase quality and quantity of research conducted by the countries’ own researchers. Higher education and research are priority areas of Norway’s development cooperation policy.DocumentGood governance facades
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015Fashions 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.DocumentMid-term evaluation of the Clean Energy in Africa Programme of Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway)
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014The Clean Energy in Africa programme is a five-year programme (2012-2016) where Naturvernforbundet is cooperating with the Pan-African organization Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement International (JVE) and Fórum de Energias e Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Moçambique (FEDESMO).DocumentEvaluation of Norway’s support to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015This evaluation looks at the Norwegian assistance to Haiti after the earthquake with a two-fold purpose. First, it looks at the effectiveness of Norwegian assistance to Haiti.DocumentForest carbon rights and corruption: what donors can do to minimize the risks
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights determine who can make decisions about REDD+, who can benefit, how and to whom the carbon is sold, and under what circumstances. Debates about forest carbon rights are strongly linked to debates about equity in REDD+.DocumentThe foreign policy of carbon sinks: carbon capture and storage as foreign policy in Norway
Science Direct, 2014Norway is among a handful of countries with an explicit policy to promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) at both national and international levels. This paper investigates the internal and external driving forces behind Norway's efforts to advance CCS as a global climate change mitigation option.DocumentREDD+ as performance-based aid: general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway
2013REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets.DocumentGoing offshore: How development finance institutions support companies using the world’s most secretive financial centres
European Network on Debt and Development, 2014Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are government-controlled institutions that, as this report shows, often support private sector projects that are routed through tax havens, using scarce public money. By supporting projects in this way, DFIs are helping to reinforce the offshore industry as they are providing income and legitimacy.Pages