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Presenting results in development cooperation: risks and limitations

Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Briefing Paper 4/2014

At a time of global economic crisis, donor agencies are under increasing pressure to provide evidence of the positive results of their work. This paper analyses the limitations and risks of using standard indicators to report on aggregate outputs and outcomes of interventions at agency level.

The Rise of Informal Summitry: Implications for Global Governance

Duisburg, 15. April 2014

In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Andrew Cooper examined the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organisations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organisations differ from the formal institutions such as the UN and the IMF in a number of key ways:…

The post-2015 agenda: The role of Social Protection

Bonn, 15. April 2014

Social protection has significantly gained prominence in the international development debate. It is a key tool for the eradication of poverty, for the reduction of vulnerability and for the limitation of rising income inequality. Apart from this, however, social protection also has an economic and a political function: Its pure existence…

South-South Cooperation and the Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development

Mexico City, 16. April 2014

First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation The event covered mainly two aspects of the topic in the following two sections. 1. The first section focused on “Mutual Accountability and South-South Cooperation in the Post-2015 Agenda”. In the post-2015 debate, global accountability features…

Post 2015: Peace, security and development belong together

Janus, Heiner / Gerrit Kurtz (2014)
The Current Column, 22. April 2014

There are still significant political obstacles to specific goals regarding peace and security in the post-2015 agenda. Germany should build bridges to the sceptical countries.

A Renewables Club to change the world

Messner, Dirk / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Jennifer Morgan (2014)
The Current Column, 30. April 2014

The climate crisis needs an urgent international response, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently reminded us.

South Sudan’s tragedy is the responsibility of the country’s political elite

Furness, Mark (2014)
The Current Column, 08. May 2014

The South Sudanese political elite have chosen violence over peace. Until this changes, the international community’s options are limited to trying to raise the costs of war.

The role of indicators in development cooperation: an overview study with a special focus on the use of key and standard indicators

Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Studies 81

This study explores the role of indicators in development cooperation at three organisational levels: the agency level, the country level and the programme/project level. Best practices are identified and recommendations given on how to mitigate risks associated with the use of indicators.

Results-based aid: potential and limits of an innovative modality in development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Heiner Janus (2014)
External Publications

Results-based Funding

Paris, 19. May 2014

Today development partners are under strong pressure to demonstrate the results achieved through development co-operation. Results-based funding is one major attempt to respond to this pressure by reshaping the delivery instruments and relationships between development partners. Results-based funding (such as results based aid, program…

Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Bonn, 19. May 2014

The international conference in Bonn on 19/20 May 2014 aimed to identify research and funding gaps to influence Nexus policy-making and research on a global level. It brought together policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders to discuss the linkages across three key resource sectors – water, energy and food. Participants addressed…

Results-Based Aid: Implementing COD Aid and other outcome-oriented approaches

Results-Based Aid: Implementing COD Aid and other outcome-oriented approaches Download Results-Based_Aid_Implementing_COD_Aid_and_other_outcome-oriented_approaches_Programme_ENG.pdf Results-Based_Aid_Implementing_COD_Aid_and_other_outcome-oriented_approaches_Summary_ENG.pdf Special Please find more information on our special-page: " Results-based Approaches in Development Cooperation "

What is the link between poverty and climate change?

Stepping, Katharina M. K./ Anna Pegels (2014)
The Current Column, 05. June 2014

5 June 2014. Today is World Environment Day, an appropriate time to note that the world faces two major challenges at the beginning of the 21st century: fighting poverty and curbing environmental destruction. Time and again, people fail to see that these two issues are intrinsically linked.

“Beyond Aid” and the future of development cooperation

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
Briefing Paper 6/2014

Currently, it is not clear what will replace traditional aid. Observers often speak about a beyond aid future. As an umbrella term, beyond aid describes different aspects of the transformation of development cooperation.

New Policy Paper on Sustainable Development Goals 2015

New Policy Paper on Sustainable Development Goals 2015 Jump to: New Policy Paper on Sustainable Development Goals 2015 New Policy Paper on Sustainable Development Goals 2015 left to right: Peter Lemke (WBGU), Ministers Gerd Müller and Barbara Hendricks, Dirk Messner (DIE-Director und Co-Chair of WBGU), Sabine Schlacke (WBGU); Photo: WBGU Press release New Sustainable Development Goals 2015: Fight poverty – by protecting the environment! Berlin, 6 June 2014.…

„Beyond Aid“ und die Zukunft der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 7/2014

Das traditionelle Modell der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit – ein Ressourcentransfer von Nord nach Süd – ist überholt. Derzeit ist offen, wie sich das Politikfeld weiterentwickelt. Viele Beobachter sprechen von einer Zukunft Beyond Aid – über Entwicklungszusammenarbeit hinaus.

Education is the Key

Bonn, 16. June 2014

In what kind of world do we want to live? What future do we want for our children? These questions, which are leading the global debate on a new development agenda, were discussed in the international conference “Education is the Key – Towards a Global Post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. It was held on 16 June 2014 in the…

Averting Water Wars in Asia

Bonn, 25. June 2014

The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, especially in the South and East China Seas, has obscured another danger: water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization and peace. Water has emerged as a key security issue that could determine if Asia is headed toward cooperation or…

Beyond aid: new ways forward?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
External Publications

Beyond Aid: neue Wege?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
External Publications