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Impacts of school closures on children in developing countries: Can we learn something from the past?
No full textPRSP in Tanzania: Do Mkukuta and the CCm Election Manifesto Pull in the same Direction?
Full text linkThe National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP), or what is more commonly referred to by the Kiswahili acronym Mkukuta, has been in effect since July 2005. It is a key document setting out a broad framework and strategy for poverty reduction and economic growth. Most Development Partners have aligned their assistance with the Mkukuta. The CCM’s Election Manifesto for the 2005 general election was issued in August 2005. The Manifesto is a comprehensive declaration of policies, goals and priorities for the nation and its people as a whole. The 2005 general election gave CCM a clear mandate to implement the Manifesto. If the Manifesto points in a very different direction from that of the Mkukuta, President Kikwete’s government may be pulled between different concerns and one might expect implementation of the Mkukuta to be poor. The Norwegian Embassy decided therefore to commission a short-term study in order to review and assess differences and links between the Mkukuta and the Manifesto. The main purpose of this review is to get a clearer picture of areas where the two strategies pull in the same direction and where they differ, given the broad clusters of outcomes in the Mkukuta
PRSP in Tanzania: Do Mkukuta and the CCm Election Manifesto Pull in the same Direction?
Full text linkThe National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP), or what is more commonly referred to by the Kiswahili acronym Mkukuta, has been in effect since July 2005. It is a key document setting out a broad framework and strategy for poverty reduction and economic growth. Most Development Partners have aligned their assistance with the Mkukuta. The CCM’s Election Manifesto for the 2005 general election was issued in August 2005. The Manifesto is a comprehensive declaration of policies, goals and priorities for the nation and its people as a whole. The 2005 general election gave CCM a clear mandate to implement the Manifesto. If the Manifesto points in a very different direction from that of the Mkukuta, President Kikwete’s government may be pulled between different concerns and one might expect implementation of the Mkukuta to be poor. The Norwegian Embassy decided therefore to commission a short-term study in order to review and assess differences and links between the Mkukuta and the Manifesto. The main purpose of this review is to get a clearer picture of areas where the two strategies pull in the same direction and where they differ, given the broad clusters of outcomes in the Mkukuta
Impacts of school closures on children in developing countries: Can we learn something from the past?
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In Pursuit of Poverty Reduction: What have Parliaments got to do with it?
Full text linkLaunched only 6 years ago, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has become a key reference document to a majority of developing countries. More than 70 developing countries have embarked on a PRSP process. In spite of limited substantiation of success, the PRSP approach has continued to evolve. The PRSP not only constitutes a point of departure for developing countries’ dialogue with their developing partners, but also claims to be a national steering document for poverty reduction. When the PRSP was designed, three key groups formed the inner circle: donors, civil society and domestic governments. But what about the highest elected public institutions, namely parliaments – why did they not form part of the inner circle? This report explores why parliaments have come to be marginalised in the PRSP processes. However, more recently the neglect of parliaments has been recognized, but why was the request for parliamentary involvement all of a sudden brought to the fore? Existing sources indicate that parliamentary involvement is increasing somewhat but has remained extremely limited. If it is correct that the role of parliament is still marginal, how can this be explained? In order to answer that question in more detail, we undertake a case study of Tanzania. Delving deeper into one single case sheds further light on the mechanisms at work in the PRSP process. A main argument of this report is that parliamentary neglect is linked to the dominance of the executive in policy processes. Another key argument is that the disregard of parliament is strongly related to characteristics inherent in the very PRSP process itself
Et lite offer? En analyse av årsakene til det diplomatiske bruddet mellom Norge og Kenya i 1990
No full textDen 22. oktober 1990 ble den norske ambassadøren innkalt til det kenyanske utenriksdepartementet; kenyanske myndigheter hadde besluttet å bryte de diplomatiske forbindelsene med Norge. Dette var resultatet av en unik hendelse både i norsk og kenyansk diplomatisk historie. Aldri tidligere hadde kenyanske myndigheter brutt diplomatiske forbindelser med en vestlig stat. Aldri tidligere hadde en stat i fredstid brutt forbindelsene med en legal norsk regjering. Denne studien er en bred historisk analyse av årsakene og omstendighetene som ledet opp til det diplomatiske bruddet mellom Norge og Kenya. Denne rapporten er en noe omarbeidet versjon av en hovedfagsoppgave med samme tittel.
On 22 October 1990 the Norwegian ambassador to Kenya was summoned to the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Kenyan Government had decided to break diplomatic relations with Norway. The decision on the part of the Kenyan Government was unique in the diplomatic history of Kenya as an independent state. From a Norwegian vantage point, the event was also unprecedented; never in peacetime had any country severed its diplomatic relations with Norway, This study is a broad historical analyses of the factors and circumstances leading up to severance of diplomatic relations between Norway and Kenya, This report is a slightly revised edition of a Cand. polit thesis by the same title.
Hilde Beate Selbervik (born 1968) completed her Cand. Polit degree in history in 1995. She is presently working as an research assistant at Chr.
Michelsen Institute
Nordic Exeptionalism in Development Assistance? Aid Policies and the Major Donors: The Nordic Countries
Full text linkThe Nordic countries are often praised for their efforts in development assistance and commended for their generosity. Over the last few decades the Nordic countries and the Netherlands have consistently been among the most generous donors. What is it that makes them more generous and seemingly less selfish than most other donor countries? Are they so much more altruistic than most other donors? In all the Nordic countries, the modes and ways of dealing with aid are in the process of undergoing substantial changes, both in terms of how the donors organise their activities and how aid is delivered. This study aims to understand and explain the Nordic countries’ aid policies and practices. It elaborates on the main underpinnings of their aid policies, how they are shaped and how they have transformed into practice at the more general level. The study focuses on recent and current developments, but is also briefly giving an outline of the historical background. A field report from the Nordic countries’ operations in Tanzania is also presented, which will provide some insights into their operations at the country level
In Pursuit of Poverty Reduction: What have Parliaments got to do with it?
Full text linkLaunched only 6 years ago, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has become a key reference document to a majority of developing countries. More than 70 developing countries have embarked on a PRSP process. In spite of limited substantiation of success, the PRSP approach has continued to evolve. The PRSP not only constitutes a point of departure for developing countries’ dialogue with their developing partners, but also claims to be a national steering document for poverty reduction. When the PRSP was designed, three key groups formed the inner circle: donors, civil society and domestic governments. But what about the highest elected public institutions, namely parliaments – why did they not form part of the inner circle? This report explores why parliaments have come to be marginalised in the PRSP processes. However, more recently the neglect of parliaments has been recognized, but why was the request for parliamentary involvement all of a sudden brought to the fore? Existing sources indicate that parliamentary involvement is increasing somewhat but has remained extremely limited. If it is correct that the role of parliament is still marginal, how can this be explained? In order to answer that question in more detail, we undertake a case study of Tanzania. Delving deeper into one single case sheds further light on the mechanisms at work in the PRSP process. A main argument of this report is that parliamentary neglect is linked to the dominance of the executive in policy processes. Another key argument is that the disregard of parliament is strongly related to characteristics inherent in the very PRSP process itself
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