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Improving employment and social cohesion among refugee and host communities through TVET: evidence from an impact assessment in Ethiopia

Getachew, Abis / Lisa Höckel / Jana Kuhnt / Abdirahman A. Muhumad / Armin von Schiller (2023)
Policy Brief 26/2023

Based on an impact assessment, this policy brief gives insight into the effect of an inclusive technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programme implemented by the GIZ on employment and social cohesion outcomes among refugee and host participants in Ethiopia.

Your Gateway to a Career in International Cooperation

Participants receive intensive support in their career orientation. In the last ten years, our alumni started their careers with many diverse employers.

Europe should prepare to support long-term Palestinian state-building

Furness, Mark (2023)
The Current Column, 20. December 2023

Politically, the Gaza war has brought the scenarios for future Israel-Palestine relations into sharp focus.

G20 and Think 20

T20 is a broad-based network of think tanks, which provides evidence-based policy advice to the G20.

Chinese firms and adherence to global ESG standards in developing countries: is there potential to create common ground?

Morris, Mike (2023)
Discussion Paper 18/2023

This paper focuses on analysing how Chinese firms operate in Latin America, Asia and Africa in regard to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) standards and sustainability issues.

Pandemic prevention: a planetary health perspective

Berlin, 01. December 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an enormous socio-economic and ecological impact. In the post-pandemic phase there is much discussion what policy actions are required at several governance levels to prevent, prepare and respond (PPR) to future pandemics. An international pandemic accord, under negotiation at the World Health…

INTERFACES Colloquium Series #4

Online, 30. November 2023

The fourth lecture in the INTERFACES colloquium series on “Sustainable land management in sub‐Saharan Africa: Improving livelihoods through local research” was on 30 November 2023 by Juliane Wiesenhütter and Nina Bisom, from GIZ on “United for Land – Partners, networks and contributions from a German perspective” . They introduced the…

Comparing Aid Agencies’ Bureaucratic Politics and Practices

Paris, 30. November 2023

The workshop offered the unique opportunity for a select group of scholars researching bureaucratic politics and practices of aid agencies to develop comparative perspectives on development effectiveness. We discussed empirically grounded and comparative work that takes either bureaucrats or aid agencies as their main unit of analysis and…

IDOS@COP28

Dubai, 30. November 2023

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will take place from November 30 to December 12, would be decisive to advance multilateral responses to the climate crisis. IDOS will be active as an observer organisation. We will showcase our research findings at events and analyse progress made on…

COP28 and the road to a Just Transition

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Aparajita Banerjee / Susan S. Ekoh (2023)
The Current Column, 29. November 2023

A Just Transition will indeed require accelerating the global just energy transition, but will also require operationalising the Loss and Damage Fund agreed upon at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, and potentiating gender-responsive climate action and finance.

China's footprint in Africa

Cissé, Daouda / Karoline Eickhoff / Julia Fath / Christine Hackenesch / Rainer Thiele (2023)
External Publications

Global Shifts in a Changing World Economy

Online, 28. November 2023

In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a new geography of trade and consumption in the agricultural sector. The processes of twenty-first-century globalization are fundamentally changing the politics and governance of agricultural supply chains, with profound implications for the environment and…

How can climate-resilient health systems be successfully established?

Strupat, Christoph (2023)
The Current Column, 27. November 2023

Defining health as a priority area in connection with COP28 will provide a key impetus for the rapid and sustainable reduction of emissions and acceleration of the necessary climate adaptation strategies in the health sector.

Greening cooperation for economic development

Altenburg, Tilman / Anna Pegels (2023)
The Current Column, 22. November 2023

To accelerate green transformation in low- and middle-income countries, it is therefore essential to provide evidence of how a greener economy can offer direct economic benefits to national economies and the majority of citizens.

2023 UN Climate Change Conference: How far has the world come to curb the climate crisis?

Online, 22. November 2023

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will take place from November 30 to December 12, would be decisive to advance multilateral responses to the climate crisis. The first Global Stocktake of the implementation of the Paris Agreement, scaling-up mitigation ambition and implementation, and…

2030 Agenda Sustainable Development

Special "2030 agenda": DIE is participating in important discussions drawing from its wide-ranging expertise in development and environmental policy.

Promoting and Protecting Democracy in Times of De-Democratization

Bonn, 16. November 2023

Since the 1990s, external democracy promotion and protection has become a prominent tool of bi- and multilateral donors, as well as international and civil society organizations to promote and protect democracy in aid-recipient countries. However, democracy itself as well as promoters and supporters of democracy are challenged by a…

The emerging global challenge of data authoritarianism

Bonn, 16. November 2023

With the rise of digital economies and digital innovations, issues surrounding data are becoming increasingly important in public debates around the world. While new challenges have emerged regarding data misuses in the past years, the political, legal and multilateral responses have been lagging, partly due to the complexity of these new…

What international stakeholders of democracy should think about

Saibu, Ghadafi (2023)
The Current Column, 13. November 2023

Supporting these hybrid regimes as a standard form of democracy by international stakeholders creates the impression that a functioning democracy is in place, but in fact, they are not sustainable.

Germany's Energiewende: synergies, trade-offs and political drivers

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Ines Dombrowsky (2023)
Policy Brief 18/2023

Germany's energy transition – known as the Energiewende - presents a series of synergies and trade-offs across climate, energy, biodiversity and social justice. These and their political drivers are examined in this brief, with a focus on the country’s coal phase-out and on-shore wind phase-in.