State building, governance and civil society

Governing Green Transition: Barriers and Enablers of Power Sector Reform in Indonesia

Research project All commitments are on the condition of the Danish Parliament’s approval of adequate funds for development research in the upcoming 2023 Finance Bill. Final grant amount TBA. Indonesia has committed to combatting climate change by reducing gr ...

Period: 2023-05-1 to 2028-04-30 Countries: Indonesia Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: Universitas Indonesia (UI), Indonesia Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), Indonesia Bank Indonesia, Indonesia School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), Indonesia Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia Project code: 23-M03-CBS

“Himili Pamoja” – Gendered Encounters in Climate Change Adaptation in Tanzania

Research project This research aims to promote gender-transformative approaches in climate change adaptation policies and initiatives at household, ward and district level in four districts in Tanzania. To achieve this overarching goal, the project explores the gende ...

Period: 2022-05-1 to 2027-04-30 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Tanzania Project code: 21-06-KU Total grant: 11,999,830 DKK

Climate Resilience Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Research project Projected and existing severe impacts of climate change in West Africa’s Sahel interact with high population growth and livelihood insecurity and fragility. The resulting increased mobility and rapid urbanisation further challenge local governments’ ...

Period: 2021-10-1 to 2026-09-30 Countries: Burkina Faso Ghana Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Development Studies (UDS), Ghana University Joseph KI-Zerbo (UJKZ), Burkina Faso International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE), Burkina Faso Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), United Kingdom Project code: 20-11-KU Total grant: 11,983,689 DKK

Peacebuilding, Public Authority, and Forests in Myanmar

Research project The project seeks to understand how authority is produced through the governance of land, natural resources, and people in areas of prolonged armed conflict and contested statehood. It contributes to wider debates about the impact of natural resourc ... First year report Due to Covid-19 restrictions and the military coup in Myanmar on 01 Feb 2021, the project partners agreed to initiate our activities by employing two PhD students at Chulalongkorn University by mid-August 2021. The reason being t ...

Period: 2020-12-1 to 2025-11-30 Countries: Myanmar Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Trans National Institute (TNI), Netherlands Chulalongkorn University (CU), Thailand Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN), Myanmar Kawthoolei Forestry Department (KFD), Myanmar Project code: 19-09-KU Total grant: 11,999,711 DKK

Environmental Maritime Governance in Kenya (EMG-K): Policy, Practice and Prospects for the Abatement of Shipping Air Emissions

Research project Kenya faces the challenge of facilitating economic development via its growing maritime trades while protecting the global climate and local air quality. The EMG-K project explores Kenya’s environmental maritime governance for the abatement of emissi ...

Period: 2022-09-1 to 2025-08-31 Countries: Kenya Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Institute for Law and Environmental Governance (ILEG), Kenya Project code: 21-M12-CBS Total grant: 4,992,954 DKK

Private-sector cash transfers (CASH-IN)

Research project The overall objective of CASH-IN is to investigate whether and to what extent privately managed cash transfers (PrivCTs) are politicized by ruling elites and how this affects inclusive sustainable growth and state-society relations. Cash transfers ha ... First year report: The CASH-IN research programme contrasts privately managed cash-transfer projects (CTs) with publicly managed CTs in Uganda and Tanzania, and assesses the potential to scale CTs. CASH-IN has hired five project PhDs based at Rosk ...

Period: 2020-09-1 to 2025-05-31 Countries: Tanzania Uganda Lead institution: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Partner institutions: Makerere University (MAK), Uganda University of Dodoma (UDOM), Tanzania Project code: 19-05-RUC Total grant: 11,944,444 DKK

Including Pastoralism in Community Forests, Tanzania

Research project Pastoralist and Agropastoralist (PAP)-farmer conflicts in Tanzania appear to be increasing. These conflicts cause distress and loss of assets and lives, including deaths, disabilities, the killing of livestock in addition to the destruction of crops, ... First Annual Report Recruitment of PhD students: developed a call for application, advertised on 16 February 2020 with March 15th 2020 deadline, 35 applications received, evaluated using formulated shortlisting criteria by reviewers from CoU and ...

Period: 2020-03-1 to 2025-02-28 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Partner institutions: Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy (MNMA), Tanzania University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Project code: 19-12-TAN Total grant: 11,998,945 DKK

Global Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia

Research project This project (GLOW) studies the role of global norms in development. It does so through a case study of the global norm on the elimination of violence against women (VAW) in Ethiopia. The norm was originally phrased in the Convention on the Eliminati ... Midterm report GLOW is a research programme exploring global norms and violence against women (VAW) in Ethiopia. The international community has invested substantial resources in establishing the Sustainable Development Goals and similar global no ...

Period: 2019-08-1 to 2024-07-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: The Peace and Development Center (PCD), Ethiopia Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia Project code: 18-10-DIIS Total grant: 8,383,912 DKK

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