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Norsk utviklingsbistand : målsettinger og retningslinjer for kanaliseringen

Upphovsperson: Stokke, Olav
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1975
Ämnesord: Africa, Asia, Norway, Development aid, Foreign aid, Political science, Statsvetenskap
Hensikten med denne boken er å gi en kort oversikt over noen sentrale sider ved norsk utviklingsbistand og bistandspolitikk: målsettingene for bistand slik myndighetene har utformet dem; retningslinjene for kanalisering av bistanden - fordelningen mellom tosidig og flersidig bistand og konsentrasjonen av den tosidige bistanden om noen få hovedsamarbeidsland; og den tosidige bistandsstrukturen - den faktiske fordeling på hovedsamarbeidslandene og andre, og på de forskjellige sektorer. Også planleggingsprosedyren blir risset opp. De primære oppgave har vært å kartlegge og beskrive disse forhold. Dette innebærer imidlertid ikke at boken er fri for vurderinger.

Legal education in a changing world : report of the Committee on legal education in the developing countries

Upphovsperson: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : International Legal Center; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1975
Ämnesord: Africa, Education, Legal sciences, Developing countries, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This is a report of an international committee of legal scholars appointed by the International Legal Center to study the progress and problems of legal education in the developing regions of the world. The report argues that the importance of legal education, both as an educational experience and as a source of valuable practical skills for the development of a society, has been consistently underestimated in the developing countries. At the same time, the report urges that legal education has to be planned within the context of and related to the local social and developmental situation, taking into account such factors as differences in the use of formal laws and legal processes and in the perception of their value. It is necessary to approach law as a discipline which helps to understand and solve problems of development. The report also dentifies some problems that are likely to be important concerns of legal education.

Enough is enough! For an alternative diagnosis of the African crisis

Upphovsperson: Lopes, Carlos
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1994
Ämnesord: Africa, Economic conditions, Economic reform, Politics, Democratization, Resources mobilization, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The African crisis is a recurrent theme in all discourse on Africa in the 1990s, in stark contrast with the optimism of the first decades of independence. This discussion paper questions the very description of the state of affairs in Africa, and is written as an African input in the debate on problems and prospects in Africa.

Towards a new partnership with Africa : challenges and opportunities

Medarbetare: Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Steve | Olukoshi, Adebayo O. | Wohlgemuth, Lennart
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1998
Ämnesord: Africa, Sweden, Development aid, Democratization, Economic development, Aid policy, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book is part of a study by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on future relations between Sweden and Africa. The outcome of this study was a white paper, presented by the Swedish Government to the Swedish Parliament in March 1998 on its African policy, based on a report entitled 'Partnership with Africa'. Listening attentively to African voices was of particular importance in the course of the review process leading to the white paper. In this connection two conferences were organised in which African invitees were the main participants. The first conference was organised by the Nordic Africa Institute in cooperation with the African Development Bank and resulted in the anthology A New Partnership for African Development - Issues and Parameters, published by the Nordic Africa Institute in May 1997.The second conference was held in Saltsjöbaden in June 1997 and this volume brings together a number of the papers which were commissioned to serve as background material to the debate  that took place then. Examples of African reform work in four theme areas are dealt with: Africa's democratic culture, including gender equality; security and conflict management. Africa in the international economy. Africa's aid dependency and prospects for changed relations between Africa and other countries. Relations between Sweden and Africa - current situation and future potential, opened by two personal and engaged letters to 'My little brother Sweden from Your big sister Africa- written by Angela L. Ofori-Atta, lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School.

When the grass is gone : development intervention in African arid lands

Medarbetare: Baxter, Paul Trevor William
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1991
Ämnesord: Africa, Development policy, Environmental effects, Environmental degradation, Arid zone, Conference papers, Pastoralism, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book discusses some of the consequences of development interventions for ordinary people, and some of their environmental concomitants. The contributors all raise new questions of how to redeem the people who live in the arid lands from their present predicament and how to enable them to manage their own future. Many of the insights have been sharpened by ideas well-known to peasants and pastoralists, but seldom discussed among policymakers.

State, cooperatives and development in Africa

Upphovsperson: Holmén, Hans
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1990
Ämnesord: Africa, State, Cooperatives, Agricultural cooperatives, Cooperative farming, Rural cooperatives, Agricultural production, Production cooperatives, Development, Agricultural development, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
n this study the author discusses the twin pair cooperatives and development, looking both at constraints and possibilities. It is a theoretical study, but firmly anchored in a variety of emperical works, on the basis of which the author build the discussion.

National identity and democracy in Africa

Medarbetare: Palmberg, Mai
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1999
Ämnesord: Africa, National identity, Democracy, Migration, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
"This is not a contribution to nation-building. I hope it helps disrupt nation-building". These words by film-maker Zackie Ahmat gave a kick-start to the discussions at the international conference on "National Identity and Democracy" held at the University of the Western Cape 14-18 March 1997, and they also introduce the theme for the book with some of the best contributions to the conference. Ahmat's understanding of "nation-building" was the kind of cultural homogenisation ordered from above which has been the rule in many parts of the world, not least in Africa. Nation-building has here often been been a hypocritical cloak for the hegemony of an elite, sometimes mobilising support from just one cultural group. By the title of the conference the organisers wanted to invite a discussion both on the insight that building a nation and building democracy are not necessarily twins, and on the risks of the misuse of power in the name of the nation. South Africa represents a possible and hopeful departure from the homogenisation model, with its explicit pluralism expressed in the adoption of 11 official languages. Six of the papers deal with the South African experiment, with an examination of the policy of non-racialism and the specific challenges posed by migrant workers, group identities and the themes of gender and nation. Other chapters are case studies from national identity formation on the contested cultural terrain in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Angola, Nigeria, and Tanzania. The book also contains an annotated bibliography.

The Nordic countries and Africa : old and new relations

Upphovsperson: Wohlgemuth, Lennart
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2002
Ämnesord: Aid policy, Development aid, trade, Africa, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The Institute has asked one representative from each Nordic country to give an account of how their respective countries have dealt with Africa over the years (in some cases even over the centuries) but with an emphasis on the last 50 years. They were also asked to indicate what role Africa has played in the politics, trade, etc. of their countries. The diversity of the invited authors’ backgrounds and fields of specialisation is reflected in their contributions, but the authors have one thing in common: a long experience from, and deep engagement in, Africa’s development.

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