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Three topics for a repositioning of the UN’s development arm

Baumann, Max-Otto (2025)
The Current Column, 08. September 2025

The comprehensive UN80 reform initiative may primarily be a response to financial constraints, but it also offers an opportunity to reposition the UN.

Universal, inclusive, sustainable - Shaping the EU's contribution to a global public policy in the Post-2015 world

Bruxelles, 06. March 2014

In 2014, negotiations for a Post-2015 global agenda will gain momentum. The Intergovernmental Open Working Group (OWG) established by the UN in 2013 will start elaborating a proposal which integrates work on the Sustainable Development Goals as decided by the UN Conference on Sustainable Develop­ment in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and…

Global challenges and development cooperation: how the relationship is changing

Klingebiel, Stephan / Heiner Janus (2021)
External Publications

Introduction: the reordering of development policy – Trump’s changes to the development policy landscape

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Socio-political and administrative determinants of municipal revenue performance: insights from Mozambique

Bunk, Saida / Salvador Forquilha / Dominique Klawonn / Jonathan Krull / Alina Sennewald / Conrad Steinhilber / Juliane von Boeselager / Armin von Schiller (2017)
Briefing Paper 14/2017

Mobilisation of municipal revenue is a relevant topic for development from a fiscal point of view but also from a broader governance perspective. This paper presents the results of a study focusing on how administrative and socio-political factors affect municipal revenue performance in Mozambique.

Options for closer cooperation and joint leadership of France and Germany

Berlin, 05. April 2019

On 5 April 2019, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungpolitik (DIE) and Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales / Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IDDRI) convened a workshop with French and German experts on global development and development cooperation. The purpose was to…

Complementarity in development: bringing private foundations on board

Lundsgaarde, Erik (2013)
Briefing Paper 10/2013

Private foundations are considered to add value in development cooperation by providing additional financing and supporting innovations in practice. This brief identifies areas where OECD-DAC donors and foundations can work to foster complementary action.

Ten years of Global Climate Action: insights from the CoAct Database

Chan, Sander / Lisa-Maria Glass / Paul Hagenström / Pablo Imbach / Lauri Peterson / Sebastian Reyes de la Lanza / Kiri Van den Wall Bake (2025)
External Publications

Bringing integrity in the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus

Online, 12. April 2023

Water security, energy security, food security and the health and sustainability of the planet’s ecosystems are deeply connected in the face of increased climate risks. That’s why an approach, like the WEFE Nexus approach, that emphasises interlinkages for planning and adaptation processes is so relevant. But it has its challenges. How…

The Development Dance: How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

Bonn, 28. February 2018

In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship;…

Development and development policy in the Trump era

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (eds.) (2025)
Discussion Paper 23/2025

The volume offers an early assessment of how the global development (cooperation system) is being reshaped - and, in some cases, actively contested - in the wake of the United States’ normative and financial withdrawal.

Impact analysis of development cooperation is feasible

Neubert, Susanne (2004)
Briefing Paper 4/2004

Reform of the UN Development System

Web Special "Reform of the UN Development System": With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the reform of the UN Development System (UNDS) has received a new urgency. Its purpose is to provide high-quality input to the reform discussions and to bring in diverse perspectives.

Policy coherence for development and the security-development nexus in EU external relations

Furness, Mark (2016)
External Publications

SSC’s contribution to achieving the SDGs

Nairobi, 19. July 2016

The panel debate was an informal ‘Davos style’ session where the facilitator probed key respondents to comment on questions regarding data management, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and accountability systems of new and emerging development partners, to better track the contribution that South-South co-operation is making to Agenda…

The elephants in the room: uncomfortable perspectives on the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development

Klingebiel, Stephan (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Managing Global Governance (MGG)

The Managing Global Governance (MGG) network brings together governmental institutions, think tanks and research institutions as well as civil society and business organizations

Tax expenditures country report: Zambia

Mwale, Evaristo (2025)
Books

The untapped functions of international cooperation in the age of sustainable development

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2020)
External Publications

Big results now? Emerging lessons from results-based aid in Tanzania

Janus, Heiner / Niels Keijzer (2015)
Discussion Paper 4/2015

This paper analyses and compares three ongoing Results-based Aid programmes in Tanzania that support government reforms in the water, education adn decentralisation sectors. These three programmes are implemented in the context of the government's Big Results Now programme.