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Who cares about aid? Voters do!

Leininger, Julia / Martin-Shields, Charles (2025)
The Current Column, 18. February 2025

Right now, voters’ positive feelings about aid are abstract. However, when voters understand that an investment in development cooperation is an investment in their community as well, they will continue to support it.

Violence against Women: Translating Rhetoric into Action

Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée (2009)

G-7: a turning point in climate policy or empty words?

Lütkenhorst, Wilfried / Anna Pegels (2015)
The Current Column, 15. June 2015

Climate policy was one of the agenda items at the G7 summit. What should we make of the decisions? How serious is the G7’s commitment to the long-term decarbonisation of the global economy?

Election in Ecuador: A watershed moment for Latin America’s progressive dream?

Heiss, Mona / Angelike Páez (2017)
The Current Column, 13. February 2017

The elections in Ecuador this Sunday will not only determine the course of politics in Ecuador, but may reveal a plan for the future of Latin America’s progressive dream.

Water – the “blue” thread running through the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement

Janetschek, Hannah / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
The Current Column, 28. August 2017

Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 28 August 2017)

Why we need to fight right-wing populism to save our glaciers!

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2025)
The Current Column, 19. March 2025

Sustainable water management must be central to climate strategies, not just as an environmental necessity but as a safeguard for communities, jobs, and economic stability—issues that resonate across political divides.

Colonial continuities in the area of social protection

Online, 12. March 2025

Online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into French / Discussion en ligne en anglais avec traduction simultanée en français Across low and middle-income countries, many policy fields continue to be shaped by the effects of colonialism and post-colonialism. This is particularly true for social protection. Some of today’s…

La participation citoyenne au Maroc: entre expériences passées et régionalisation avancée

Iraki, Aziz / Annabelle Houdret (2021)
Books

Africa in the global economy

Bonn, 05. December 2024

Africa finds itself at a critical moment in its global economic engagement. The continent's abundant resources have recently attracted external interest, raising concerns about potential exploitation by major global players. Yet, there's also an opportunity for deeper integration into global value chains (GVCs), potentially amplifying…

Designing the new UN climate finance goal

Bonn and Online, 04. June 2024

The New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance is set to be agreed at this year’s COP29, and it could have profound implications for the level and transformational potential of finance to tackle climate change. Still, negotiators are wide apart in their starting positions, with key points of contention including how to…

Local feminist perspectives for transformative change

Online, 18. March 2024

How can local feminist perspectives be used as levers for transformative change? This question guides the project ‘Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for greater gender equality’. The project explores the potential of local feminist perspectives for transformative change towards greater gender equality and sustainable…

The evolution of connections between Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda in the NDCs

Bonn, 05. June 2023

This side event explores the development of climate activities in countries’ first and updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and their relation to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective of the event is to showcase how countries’ NDCs have developed and to what extent they have strengthened the connection…

Leonie Marie Droste

Leonie Marie Droste is a Political Scientist and a former Researcher at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Germany.

Utopias of Global Cooperation

Mysuru, India, 31. July 2023

The concept of ‘global digital commons’ (UN, 2020) constitutes a key component of the emerging Global Digital Compact of the United Nations. The concept comprises data, information, culture, and knowledge and created and maintained online (Dulong de Rosnay & Stalder, 2020). Under the Indian Presidency of the G20, Digital Public…

Municipal development policy in Germany: current trends, challenges and recommendations for further promotion

Beck, Andrea / Martin Bruder / Eva Dick / Verena Gantner / Klaus Hermanns / Johannes Schmitt / Christopher Wingens (2023)
External Publications

UN Global Digital Compact

Online, 24. May 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

UN – Meaningful Youth Engagement

Online, 10. May 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

HLAB Report and GSDR

Online, 03. May 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

Summit of the Future and SDG Summit

Online, 15. March 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

Navigating through an external agenda and internal preferences: Ghana’s national migration policy

Segadlo, Nadine (2021)
Discussion Paper 8/2021

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Ghana’s National Migration Policy (NMP). A major finding is that the NMP does not primarily respond to a perceived problem related to migration in Ghana but it rather pursues the migration related interests of the European Union (EU).