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The case for greater project-level transparency of the UN’s development work

Baumann, Max-Otto (2021)
Briefing Paper 5/2021

There is a need for greater transparency of the United Nation’s (UN) development work at the country level. Existing transparency arrangements in many cases fall short of creating a practically meaningful degree of transparency at the level of projects.

Do we need a shared impact and evaluation agenda?

Bonn, 21. March 2017

In September 2015, the members of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda as the seminal and universally applicable goal setting for sustainable international cooperation in the next 15 years. Putting this agenda into practice is an enormous challenge for local, national, European and global policy makers and politicians alike. Even more…

Pursuing 1.5 degrees

Katowice, 12. December 2018

Implementing ambitious climate policies – aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees – should not be perceived as only posing challenges for countries and economies. On the contrary, ambitious climate policies can lead to new development prospects with substantial economic and social gains. The earlier action is taken, the greater…

The Conservation Revolution

Online, 19. May 2020

Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of the Anthropocene and the current ‘sixth extinction’ crisis demonstrate an urgent…

Harnessing development cooperation to foster European climate leadership

Brüssel, 18. March 2020

The recent UN climate change conference in Madrid (COP25) was widely perceived as underwhelming in its failure to agree on key matters to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement and to ensure more ambitious climate action. All the while, the European Commission released its ambitious Green Deal and the European Parliament…

The European Union Trust Fund for Africa: what implications for future EU development policy?

Castillejo, Clare (2017)
Briefing Paper 5/2017

The European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) is a central part of the EU’s engagement in the area of migration policy. The paper reviews what the EUTF has achieved since it was established at the Valletta Summit in Malta in November 2015.

Post 2015: getting down to the nitty-gritty: measuring the state of the environment

Stepping, Katharina M.K. (2014)
Briefing Paper 5/2014

Environmental indicators provide crucial information about the state of the environment. Yet, the availability and quality of data remain poor in a large number of countries. Integrating environmental goals and targets in the post-2015 agenda requires efforts for data gathering and processing.

Postgraduates started 11-week field research

Postgraduates started 11-week field research Postgraduates of German Development Institute started 11-week field research in Africa Press Release of 17 February 2010 Since 1965 the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has trained young German professionals in the Institute’s Postgraduate Training Programme to pursue career opportunities with development organisations in Germany and abroad. Alumni of the Programme include…

Rising Powers

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
External Publications

Alpaca sweaters or Innovation Tourette's? Hopes for a more evidence-based approach to development policy in a grand coalition

Koch, Svea / Stefan Leiderer (2013)
The Current Column, 02. December 2013

The signing of the draft coalition agreement sees the grand coalition's development policy beginning to take shape.

60th Course

60th Course Jump to: Previous Research Teams Research teams of the 60th Postgraduate Course Tracer study of recent graduates in agriculture and land use sciences in East Africa Project Lead: Dr. Michael Brüntrup and Dr. George Mudimu Team: Stefan Andreas Adamson: Urban Governance and Development Anna Holeck: Development Economics Theresa Meyer: Social Sciences: Migration and Integration & European Studies Lena Sgorsaly: Languages, Cultures and Environment in Africa &…

How the AU-EU partnership can contribute to stimulate investment in Africa

Online, 03. September 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented socio-economic consequences. In Africa, economic growth is expected to decline from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, household welfare losses will range from 7% to 10% on average, about 19 to 22 million jobs could be lost. Already before the Corona pandemic, a huge knowledge gap existed…

Future of Euro-Mediterranean Trade Cooperation

Berlin, 03. July 2018

Trade cooperation has long been a key mechanism for Europe to support prosperity and good governance in countries to the south of the Mediterranean. The key objective of the Euro-Mediterranean trade partnership is the creation of a deep Free Trade Area, which aims at removing barriers to trade and investment between the EU and Southern…

International technology cooperation: lessons for the upcoming technology mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Bhasin, Shikha (2013)
Briefing Paper 20/2013

Strategic policymaking and the German aid programme in the MENA region since the Arab uprisings

Furness, Mark (2018)
Discussion Paper 5/2018

Germany’s annual aid to MENA countries more than doubled since 2011, but without a public strategy setting out objectives and the role of aid and other policy tools in achieving them. A whole of government strategy based on the 2030 Agenda could balance German interests with the MENA’s development priorities.

A new social contract for MENA

Bonn, 05. December 2016

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) hosted the third IPR-MENA social policy conference "A new social contract for MENA countries: Experiences from Development and Social Policies" on 5 and 6 December, in partnership with the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research . Participants…

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation – a model case of inclusive global governance?

Bonn, 19. September 2013

This year’s “Managing Global Governance” (MGG) Public Lecture Series concluded with an event featuring Gerardo Bracho , OECD, Paris. As a Senior Advisor for Effective Development Co-operation at the OECD, Gerardo Bracho provides the central link between the OECD/UNDP-led Secretariat to the Global Partnership Steering Committee and the…

Brazil as an emerging actor in international development cooperation: a good partner for European donors?

John de Sousa, Sarah-Lea (2010)
Briefing Paper 5/2010

Now is the time. Rio+20 must succeed

Now is the time. Rio+20 must succeed International experts call upon their governments: Now is the time. Rio+20 must succeed Press Release of 4 July 2011 One year before Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), 13 high-ranking international experts from seven countries call upon their governments in a joint statement to prepare concrete summit results. World leaders should rise to the occasion and agree upon an ambitious green economy…

International Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute auf Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The International Scientific Advisory Board (IWB) of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) advises the IDOS team.