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US Africa Command one year later: from “Pentagonization” to an integrated approach in US Africa policy?

Gänzle, Stefan (2009)
The Current Column, 21. September 2009

Assessing the impact of EPAs on Africa's smallholders

Assessing the impact of EPAs on Africa's smallholders Further information For further information on the results of the workshop please contact: Kerstin Lanje , Germanwatch Michael Brüntrup , Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institut

Electricity transition in the MENA: a de-risking governance approach

Vidican, Georgeta / Luigi Carafa / Gianleo Frisari (2015)
External Publications

Next steps towards a comprehensive Africa-EU partnership

Online, 03. November 2021

In March 2020, the EU published a proposal for a comprehensive strategy with Africa, ahead of their regular summit with the African Union scheduled for October that year. Both the strategy and the planned summit were soon overtaken by the dramatic events of the global COVID-19 pandemic. One and a half years onwards, discussions are now…

AU-EU cooperation on the Green Transition: What role for cooperation on energy transition?

Online, 09. September 2020

Preparations for the AU-EU summit offer an opportunity to give AU-EU cooperation on green transitions a new impetus. On the European side , the European Commission has proposed an ambitious agenda to transform the European Union in a carbon-neutral continent by 2050 and to decouple economic growth from resource use. While the Green Deal…

Economic Development in Africa

Bonn, 04. June 2019

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is pleased to announce the Jan Walliser Memorial Lecture. The event took place in memory of Jan Walliser, Vice President of the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Global…

The African State: Partner in or Obstacle for Development?

Bonn, 28. October 2009

Guest lecture by Professor Daniel Compagnon (as part of the DIE's Development Cooperation with Africa Working Group)

Water and electricity for the "bottom billion"

Scheumann, Waltina / Ines Dombrowsky (2014)
The Current Column, 24. March 2014

There are still 780 million people who have to get by without clean drinking water, while some 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation facilities. With regard to this, we will fall far short of achieving the Millennium Development Goal.

The urgency of public works programmes

Braun, Joachim von / Tekalign Sakketa (2020)
External Publications

China’s scientific cooperation with Africa

Li, Hangwei / Han Cheng (2026)
External Publications

Chinese scientific cooperation with Africa is shaped by both state-led initiatives and actor-driven partnerships, spanning digital transformation, agriculture, public health, satellite remote sensing, joint research, and capacity building, argue Hangwei Li and Han Cheng.

Digital transformation in Africa: from gaps to goals

Crumpton, Ben / Melis Baydag / Niels Keijzer / Camilla Rocca / Benedikt Erforth (2025)
External Publications

The Global South and US trade policy: structural exposure and economic vulnerability in selected African countries

Stender, Frederik / Tim Vogel / Lukas Kornher / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Sascha Berndt / Andreas Edele (2025)
Discussion Paper 25/2025

Low- and middle-income countries are most vulnerable to new U.S. tariffs and trade uncertainty. This paper explores vulnerabilities and risks from US trade policy shifts for Lesotho, Madagascar, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, and Tunisia.

The implementation of sustainability taxonomies: the case of South Africa

Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann / Giovanna Artmann / Sam Ashman / Theresa Herbold / Steffen Lötters-Viehof / Agnese Monti / Felix Paffhausen Stephanie Roigk / Lee-Ann Steenkamp (2023)
Discussion Paper 15/2023

Our case study on South Africa’s Green Finance Taxonomy (GFT) investigates challenges associated with the implementation of sustainability taxonomies as they are currently developed in many jurisdictions with the aim to increase transparency and redirect capital flows to sustainable investments.

Digital African-German Leadership Academy “Sustainable Development – Transdisciplinary peer learning between Africa and Europe”

Online, 26. April 2021

Between 26 April and 7 May 2021, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) offers a two weeks innovative digital training and dialogue programme for up to 25 young professionals from Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Togo and Tunisia, who work in the area of sustainable development…

Spatial development initiatives – potentials, challenges and policy lessons: with a specific outlook for inclusive agrocorridors in Sub-Sahara Africa

Reeg, Caroline (2017)
Studies 97

Against the rise of agricultural corridor initiatives in Sub-Sahara Africa, this report analyses the potentials and pitfalls of older spatial development initiatives. It shows that spatial approaches are very difficult to get right. Yet, there is potential to learn from the past.

Akude, John Emeka

Akude, John Emeka Jump to: Vita The information in this profile corresponds to the stand of information at the time of departure. Dr. John Emeka Akude Function Former Researcher Specialization Political Scientist Vita 2011-2014 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher Adviser to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, attached to the policy planning staff (Bonn/Berlin) 2009-2011…

Fruit and vegetable value chains in Africa

Aboushady, Nora / Lukas Kornher / Chahir Zaki (2024)
External Publications

Improving innovation adoption among African smallholder farmers

Asimeng, Theodore (2024)
External Publications

The INTERFACES project backs four regional ventures run by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and aimed at promoting sustainable land management in sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission focuses on developing change strategies to boost innovation and implementation processes.

From potentials to reality: transforming Africa's food production: investment and policy priorities for sufficient, nutritious and sustainable food supplies

Baumüller, Heike, [...], Tekalign Gutu Sakketa et al. (2020)
External Publications

European Development Policy under the von der Leyen Commission

Berlin, 19. December 2019

The beginning of this month saw the start of the new European Commission under the leadership of President Ursula von der Leyen. Together with her team of Vice Presidents and Commissioners she will promote European cooperation and integration during the next five years under the motto: A Union that Strives for More. President Ursula von…