Theme special

Development Finance at a turning point

The 2026 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development Follow-Up (FfD Forum) takes places in New York from 20-24 April. IDOS works on key mechanisms of the Financing for Development process. You can find some of our related work here.

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Disruption and Reform
Annual Theme

Disruption and Reform

In light of global crises and increasingly disruptive, authoritarian forms of politics, forward-looking, cooperative reforms are necessary to secure sustainable development, international cooperation and democratic foundations. In this web special you will find IDOS's work on the dynamics of our 2025/26 annual theme, ‘Disruption and Reform’.

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Photo: terraced fields
Theme special

Food security and agriculture

The research and advisory project addresses the question of how development cooperation can make a more effective contribution to improving food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa.

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Opinion pieces and media contributions

The Current Column

Urban transitions need bio-based materials—here’s why

Never, Babette / Alexander Stoecker

Bio-based materials can cut emissions while creating jobs and boosting local economies—yet remain largely overlooked.

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CNBC Africa

After the 14th Ministerial Conference of the WTO: Sobering Pragmatism

Axel Berger

The moratorium was a proxy for a deeper unwillingness to compromise: the inability of member states to set aside their particular interests for the greater good of a functioning multilateral trading system.

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Events

LAN & MGG/IDOS Joint Conference 2026
Systemic Impact through Transformative Training

Jakarta, 19.04.2026 until 23.04.2026

Workshop
Futures and imagineering (with) water infrastructures

Paris, 22.04.2026

Podiumsdiskussion
Geopolitik zwischen Klimawandel und globaler Neuordnung

Bonn, 05.05.2026

Further events

Current publications

IDOS Policy Brief Cover

Digital labour opportunities and (im)mobility: steps for making digital remote work a global possibility

Martin-Shields, Charles (13/2026)

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Zusammen ist man weniger allein: Mit Team Europe 2.0 die europäische Entwicklungspolitik stärken

Koch, Svea / Julian Bergmann / Benedikt Erforth / Christine Hackenesch / Niels /Keijzer (12/2026)

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IDOS Policy Brief Cover

Strengthening European development policy: the case for Team Europe 2.0

Koch, Svea / Julian Bergmann / Benedikt Erforth / Christine Hackenesch / Niels /Keijzer (11/2026)

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Journal cover

Use the scope available! On overlooked levers in tax systems

von Haldenwang, Christian (2026)

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IDOS-Newsletter March 2026

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