Networks

Established in May 2007, the main purpose of ANLEP is to undertake research and disseminate research findings on selected topics that have been crucial to the work of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, including a focus on access to justice and rule of law, labour and property rights, socio-economic and political empowerment of women and human rights-based pro-poor governance.

The Network for Asian Studies is a Norwegian research network for the study of the Asian region (except for West Asia). The Network focuses mainly on the social sciences and the humanities. There is no research centre devoted solely on Asian studies in Norway, and the institutionalisation of Asian studies in Norwegian universities is rather weak. This is the rationale behind the establishment of the Network in 1996.

The Norwegian Latin America Research Network was established in 2008 with the support of the Research Council of Norway. It forms a part of a strategy initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Research and Education to establish a permanent environment for the strengthening of knowledge about Latin America in Norway. The two other pillars of this strategy are the establishment of a program for Latin America research at the Norwegian Research Council and the signing of cooperation agreements with Universities in Latin America.

The REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) network is being established on the initiative of SUM and FNI in collaboration with CICERO and NINA, with financial support from NORAD’s Climate and Forest Initiative.