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.

At IDOS, we aspire to co-shape a collaborative multipolar world for sustainable futures. We do so by conducting high-quality research, offering independent policy advice, and learning across borders and regions while seeking to align development and sustainability.

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’.

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.

News

YouTube Video: Inequality undermines social cohesion

Sustainable Futures Blog: After Yaoundé: Sobering Pragmatism

Our expertise on the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) as well as on other topics

Opinion pieces and media contributions

The Current Column

How development policy can avert the fertiliser crisis

Tups, Gideon / Katharina Molitor

The crisis calls for short-term measures – but also offers an opportunity for a long-overdue paradigm shift.

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.

Events

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Current publications

Aid for trade, political ties, and global value chains: a regime-dependent effect?

Aboushady, Nora / Georges Harb / Chahir Zaki (2025)

Use the scope available! On overlooked levers in tax systems

von Haldenwang, Christian (2026)

Spielräume nutzen! Über vernachlässigte Hebel in Steuersystemen

von Haldenwang, Christian (2026)

Dataset development in earth system governance: learnings, stakes, and pathways for impact

Morin, Jean-Frédéric Morin / James Hollway / Yixian Sun [...] / Clara Brandi et al. (28)

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