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China’s emerging role in global governance

Bonn, 06. August 2012

This year's third and last Managing Global Governance (MGG) Public Lecture was held by YE Jiang , Director of the Institute for Global Governance Studies and the Centre for European Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). He is a widely published expert on globalization, China’s role in global governance and…

How to Make Public Transport Work

Cairo, Egypt, 08. November 2024

Urban areas are facing declining public transport ridership, exacerbating environmental pollution and social inequality. This event, co-organized by IDOS, UN Environment, and ITDP, explored policies to strengthen public transport, focusing on fiscal support, digitalization, and formalization. While money, tech, and the private sector are…

Middle classes-preferences, attitudes and environmental impact

Bonn, 04. April 2019

As more and more consumers in developing countries move out of poverty, lifestyles begin to change. Who are these new middle class consumers? Do they develop the same attitudes and desires and take similar choices to middle classes in industrialised countries? And does this lead to higher resource use and carbon emissions, particularly in…

Enhancing international technology cooperation for climate change mitigation: lessons from an electromobility case study

Bhasin, Shikha (2014)
Discussion Paper 26/2014

As international negotiations face a deadlock of ambition to curb climate change, this paper addresses the scope of bilateral and multilateral technology cooperation in aiding climate change mitigation through a case-study on electromobility as an emerging low-carbon technology sector.

Communicating strategic interests in humanitarian aid may help counter authoritarian propaganda and build trust in Europe

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
Policy Brief 16/2025

Can strategic transparency counter authoritarian spin? New experimental evidence from Turkey suggests yes - but only if donors carefully balance realpolitik with humanitarian values.

South-south cooperation and western aid: learning from and with each other?

Berger, Axel / Sven Grimm (2010)
The Current Column, 06. September 2010

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…

Strategic humanitarian aid – could it weaken autocracies and boost confidence in Europe?

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
External Publications

Budget support to the health sector—The right choice for strong institutions? Evidence from panel data

Röthel, Tim (2023)
External Publications

Knowledge cooperation & training

The interest of the Knowledge Co-operation & Training department is focussed on the role of knowledge co-operation and the design of the science-policy interface

Job Advertisement: Student / Research Assistant (f/m/diverse) ClimEQ

The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) is now looking for a Student / Research Assistant (f/m/diverse) for the project “”Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in an incoherent world: Aligning climate action and reduced inequalities” (ClimEQ).

Ece Oyan

Ece Oyan is a former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

Optionen für eine deutsch-französische Führungsrolle in der internationalen Geberkoordinierung

Kaplan, Lennart (2020)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 5/2020

Im Rahmen der Agenda 2030 sehen sich Deutschland und Frankreich ähnlichen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Vor dem Hintergrund diskutiert dieses Papier Möglichkeiten und Hindernisse für eine deutsch-französische Führungsposition in der europäischen und internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.

Wie viel Hilfe hilft Afrika - Wege aus der "Armutsfalle" durch einen big push?

Klingebiel, Stephan (2005)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 4/2005

Greening economies in partner countries

Bonn, 09. November 2023

Smart industrial policy anticipates the shift to a green economy; it guides and promotes the domestic economy so that it can take advantage of the opportunities offered by this structural change early on. At the same time, it is increasingly evident that the sustainability transition must be just to be acceptable and, thus, feasible.…

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…

Grabbing water? Large-scale investments in agriculture and perspectives for regulation

Bonn, 21. November 2012

Large-scale investments in agriculture have provoked heated debates in the past years - but effects on water resources are often neglected in this context. This Water Lecture sought to answer the question if such investments provoke "water grabbing" and discussed the perspectives for regulation and sustainable agriculture. Discussants:…

Leaving no-one behind

Bonn, 11. July 2014

Kevin Watkins , the Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), gave a lecture about “Leaving no-one behind – an equity ‘stepping stone’ approach to the post-2015 agenda”. Governments around the world are negotiating development goals for the post-2015 world. Equity has emerged as a central theme. There is a growing…

Lokal verankerte Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung

Bonn, 10. October 2023

Der Book Launch zu dem Buch “Lokal verankerte Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung zwischen Partnerschaft und Machtungleichgewicht” präsentierte eine bahnbrechende Veröffentlichung in der Buchreihe “Studien des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung” bei Springer. Ein Buch, welches Prozesse und Dynamiken der…

Training towards sustainability for the public sector during and after the pandemic

Online, 27. October 2020

Since 2018, Schools of Public Administration (SPAs) from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa, the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) and further partner institutions from the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network have joined forces to strengthen capacities to train civil servants towards sustainability.…