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New office solutions, a step towards universal solutions?
30.11.2005
Fafo researchers Jon Anders Drøpping and Inger Lise Skog
Hansen have looked into Telenor's building at Fornebu to see whether
their "open and flexible" office solutions for employees
with disabilities might be a step on the path to universal solutions. Read more about the paper (in
Norwegian) |
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 New
Fafo report about changes in child welfare
25.11.2005
Fafo researcher Heidi Gautun's survey of state support for child
welfare services shows that there are great variations in the type
of support given to local counties.Read more here (in Norwegian) |
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Fafo breakfast 6 December: The Crisis in Northern Uganda
24.11.2005
The Fafo researchers Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
will at this breakfast seminar present their living condition survey
of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northern-Uganda. The report
has already gained a lot of attention in Uganda.Find more information here |
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Whistle-blowers in Norwegian working life
22.11.2005
The Fafo researchers Marit Skivenes and Sissel Trygstad say in a
new paper that a high percentage of the employees in Norway experience
criticisable conditions at work, and that quite a few - 34 per cent
- tell about it.Read more about the paper here
(in Norwegian)In the press: Magasinet Aktuell, TV2 Nettavisen, LO-nytt, Dagens Næringsliv, Ukeavisen Ledelse, Hegnar Online and Adresseavisen |
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Fafo mini-seminar 25 November: Why would the Chinese want to
go to the moon?
21.11.2005
Dr. Wang Yuan from the National Centre for Research and Technology
for Development, a research institute under the Ministry of Science
and Technology in China, will present China's new plan for technology
and science at a mini-seminar at Fafo. The seminar will be conducted
in English and Chinese.Read more here (in Norwegian) |
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Fafo breakfast 1 December: Employees in boards – opponents,
partners or second team?
15.11.2005
At this Fafo breakfast we present the first Norwegian survey about
this theme. The report is based on an examination among 250 of the
biggest companies in Norway, in addition to several case studies
the last four years.Find more information here |
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 Regulating
Business in Conflict Zones: Challenges and Options
15.11.2005
Mark Taylor, Managing Director at Fafo, has an article published
in the recently released Profiting from Peace; Managing the Resource
Dimension of Civil War, (IPA, Lynne Rienner, 2005). Entitled
"Regulating Business in Conflict Zones: Challenges and Options",
the article was co-authored with Leiv Lunde, ECON. The article maps
the policy continuum that has developed in response to the problem
of conflict trade and argues that the traditional "voluntary
versus madatory" approach of corporate social responsibility
is misleading. The book was edited by Karen Ballentine, now a consultant
to Fafo, and Heiko Nitzschke, formerly of the International Peace
Academy. |
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New report about refugees in Uganda
04.11.2005
The Northern Uganda IDP (internally displaced persons) Profiling
Study will be launched in Kampala in November, and in Norway at
the beginning of December. The report, written by Fafo researchers
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy, represents the
first systematic analysis of the living conditions of the IDPs and
their displacement history. The results from the study are already
the centre of much debate in Kampala. The report will be published
by UNDP in Kampala.Read more in the Ugandan newspaper New Vision, load down from here
pdf file 1 and pdf
file 2 |
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Fafo breakfast 22 November: One man - one voice?
About democracy in a multi-cultural society
09.11.2005
The background for this Fafo-breakfast is the report Én
mann – én stemme? (One man - one voice?). The report
reveals a lack of immigrant representatives both in the Norwegian
trade union, in the government administration and in the Norwegian
Parliament. The seminar will be conducted in Norwegian.Find more information here |
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A milestone for Fafo
04.11.2005
Well deserved homage and layered cake was the order of the day when
Fafo celebrated Fafo-report number 500. The report is presented
below.
Authors, Geir Veland (left) and Hanne Bogen, congratulated by
Jon Lahlum from the information office. |
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 New
report about the financing of day-care centres in Norway
02.11.2005
In this report, Fafo researchers Geir Veland and Hanne Bogen present
the main features of the day-care centres' reforms, including economic
models.Read more about the report here
(in Norwegian) |
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 New
report: The ability to change
02.11.2005
Norway's National Insurance Service goes through radical reforms,
and in this report Fafo researcher Eivind Falkum uses Rogaland county
as a case when he examines the service's ability to change themselves.Read more about the report here
(in Norwegian) |
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 New
publication about tax rules for employees from Eastern Europe
24.10.2005
This is the third paper from Fafo's Forum on the EU enlargement.Read more about the paper here
(in Norwegian) |
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 Alcohol
and Drug Consumption in Post War Sierra Leone
20.10.2005
In this new report the Fafo researchers Morten Bøås
and Anne Hatløy study the drinking habits of people in Sierra
Leone. The report is part of the FORUT project Alcohol, Drugs and
Development supported by Norad.Read more and download the report
here |
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UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in Fafo's house
13.10.2005
Fafo is happy that the UNDP's Oslo Governance Centre and the Norwegian
part of UNDP's Nordic Office has moved into our building in Borggata
in Oslo. UNDP Oslo Governance Centre is UNDP's global facility on
democratic governance. Their objective is to support countries in
implementing democratic reforms. The Centre has a special focus
and competency in the area of access to justice, governance and
conflict prevention, civil society and capacity building. Fafo and
the UNDP have worked closely together in the past, including on
the Iraq living conditions survey (IMIRA), and in other countries,
such as Haiti. The picture shows the staff at the centre.Read more about their
work at their website |
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 Insecurity
and Development: The Rhetoric of the Failed State
12.10.2005
In this article in the September 2005 special edition of the European
Journal of Development Research, Fafo researchers Morten Bøås
and Kathleen Jennings argue that the utility of the "failed
state" paradigm favored by politicians and academics is undermined
by misguided assumptions on how states and state actors operate.
They argue that the concept of state failure is only useful in the
context of human security -- particularly insofar as it enables
analysts and policymakers to recognise and respond to the problem
of state recession.Read more here |
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 One
man - one voice?
10.10.2005
In this new report, Fafo researchers Monica Lund and Jon Horgen
Friberg consider the challenges faced by the Norwegian trade union
movement in including ethnic minority workers in the labour market
and union tasks. The study compares the Norwegian union strategies
with the British and Danish.Read more about the report
(in Norwegian) |
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Further development of the Competence reform?
5.10.2005
Two researchers at Fafo, Odd Bjørn Ure and Monica Lund, is
part of an evaluation team which recently has reported on intermediate
results from the Competence Building Programme. This programme is
the major pillar of a national reform on lifelong learning launched
in the late 1990s. Political parties behind the upcoming centre-left
Norwegian government have signalled that they want to give an impetus
to certain elements of the LLL reform.Read more about the paper (in
Norwegian) |
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 Fafo
Breakfast 1 November:
The West Bank – forever behind the wall?
24.10.2005
Journalist Anne Hege Simonsen and Middle East expert Nora Ingdal
will come to Fafo to talk about their new book, MUR - Delt landskap
i Israel og Palestina (WALL - Shared landscape in Israel and
Palestine). They assert that the idea behind the separation wall
is much older than the latest intifida. This is the latest in a
series of Fafo breakfasts. The meeting will last from 08:30 to 09:45,
and be conducted in Norwegian.Read more about the breakfast
here (in Norwegian) |
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 Everybody
will have a place to live
3.10.2005
A new report by Fafo researchers Inger Lise Skog Hansen and Siri
Ytrehus surveys the service and housing needs of the mentally ill.Read more about the report
(in Norwegian) |
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 Not
necessarily weary...
3.10.2005
In this new report, Fafo researcher Tove Midtsundstad examines early
retirement and government policy towards the elderly.Read more about the report
(in Norwegian) |
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 Local
negotiations in the government
3.10.2005
Fafo researcher Bård Jordfald describes in this new report
the relationship between localities and the government in the research
and education sectors, which played out in the autumn of 2002.Read more about the report
(in Norwegian) |
