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Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement

Keijzer, Niels / Lina Galvis / Sarah Delputte (2023)
External Publications

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…

Heading in the wrong direction? Rethinking the EU's approach to peace and security in Africa

Bergmann, Julian (2023)
External Publications

With the creation of the European Peace Facility (EPF) in 2021, the European Union (EU) has placed greater emphasis on military instruments in its foreign policy. It has adopted a range of assistance measures under the EPF to support Ukraine against Russia’s aggression, but also for the benefit of African countries and regional organisations. The recent EU decision to provide lethal equipment to Niger’s armed forces demonstrates that the bloc is strengthening its efforts in military capacity-building. It is a key element of its engagement for peace and security in Africa. However, such a one-sided focus on military capacity-building stands at risk of not contributing to sustainable peace in fragile and conflict-affected countries if it is not embedded in a broader political strategy. What is needed is a clear strategy for the EU’s conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities in Africa, the strengthening of EPF safeguard measures to prevent the misuse of delivered equipment, and a fresh impetus for AU-EU cooperation on peace and security.

MGG Network – India National Network Meeting 2023

New Delhi, India, 28. July 2023

The MGG Network (IDOS) was thrilled to organise the MGG India National Network Meeting 2023 with participation from Indian alumni of the MGG Academy. This meeting held special significance as it was being organised in the backdrop of the T20 Summit through July 31 – August 2 at Mysuru, India. The conversations in this meeting focused on…

EU development policy in times of polycrisis

Olivié, Iliana / Maria Santillán O’Shea / Daniele Fattibene / Geert Laporte / Niels Keijzer (2023)
External Publications

Building a shared European vision on the reforms of the international financial architecture for sustainable development

Dufief, Elise / Daniele Fatibene / Niels Keijzer / San Bilal / Frederique Dahan (2023)
External Publications

Press release: Connect climate action to sustainable development

Press release of 5 Juli 2023: Connect climate action to sustainable development to get the world on track for global goal attainment

Integrated policymaking: institutional designs for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Breuer, Anita / Julia Leininger / Daniele Malerba / Jale Tosun (2023)
External Publications

Accelerating SDG implementation through triangular cooperation: a roadmap for the G20

Haug, Sebastian / Han Cheng / Laura Trajber Waisbich (2023)
External Publications

Messner, Dirk

Dirk Messner is director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Health financing in times of multiple crises: analysis and recommendation

Strupat, Christoph / Pooja Balasubramanian / Srinivasa Srigiri / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Policy Brief 11/2023

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of health systems in LMICs and highlights the need for renewed health financing efforts. Governments of LMICs and development partners should consider the large positive socioeconomic effects of investments in health systems and protect spending on health.

How digitalisation and technology empower women working on the ocean and along the Amazon River

Hägele, Ramona / Juliana Arcoverde Mansur (2023)
The Current Column, 19. June 2023

Digitalisation and technologisation can enable women to work in a more sustainable way and promote the involvement of women in marine science and sustainable water resources management.

Policy (in)coherence in Germany’s Energiewende

Bonn, 19. June 2023

Background Key to meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Agenda and the Paris Agreement in Germany is the energy transition – dubbed the Energiewende - for which several policy plans and packages have been envisioned, proposed and passed into law. One of the most controversial has been the Coal Exit Law, which, enacted in May 2020, set…

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

Press release: Prosperous but not healthy? Healthy living on a healthy planet

Healthy living on a healthy planet’ – this is the title and vision of the WBGU’s new flagship report, which will be presented today to Steffi Lemke, Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, and Judith Pirscher, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Multilateralism in Times of Polycrises

Seoul and Online, 14. June 2023

Germany's and Korea's global priorities in the field of sustainable development are converging. This convergence offers considerable opportunities and potential for the expansion of international cooperation between the two countries. This applies in particular to the important areas of development policy and international climate…

Linking Loss and Damage to Conflict Affected and Fragile Settings

Bonn, 12. June 2023

Workshop along with the 58th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC in Bonn. Climate change is a threat multiplier to sustainable development and even more so in fragile and conflict affected states, where the livelihoods of the most vulnerable are threatened and social inequalities increased. Come and join us at a crucial time…

The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: evolving connections

Dzebo, Adis / Gabriela Iacobuţă, / Raphaëlle Beaussart (2023)
External Publications

Let’s work together!

Iacobuta, Gabriela / Steffen Bauer (2023)
The Current Column, 05. June 2023

Economic concerns and development aspirations must no longer serve as a pretext for lukewarm climate action, but quite to the contrary ambitious climate action is an imperative for equitable and just sustainable development.

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…