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Higher education for the SDGs – particularly in the global South

Stamm, Andreas (2017)
The Current Column, 12. April 2017

We need knowledge-based strategies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise their implementation will fail. Development cooperation actors have long considered themselves expertise brokers. North-South knowledge transfer needs to be replaced by joint, practice-based learning among researchers from many different nations.

National Seminar on Transition from Traditional Biomass to Modern Bioenergy in Malawi

Lilongwe, Malawi, 02. October 2012

With financial support from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden and the German Development Institute /Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD) at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in collaboration with the Department of…

The new EU Development Commissioner: from Cutting Ribbons to Influencing Global Development?

Koch, Svea / Niels Keijzer / Christine Hackenesch (2014)
The Current Column, 04. November 2014

This week, the new EU Development Commissioner takes office. Immediate crises response and three major global events ask for an ambitious and risk-taking Development Commissioner.

Democracy Protection in the Global South(s) and North(s)

Berlin, 28. November 2024

The Protecting Democracy in times of Autocratization and Polarization project team at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) is hosting an expert exchange meeting on “Democracy Protection in the Global North(s) and Global South(s): Approaches, Effectiveness, and Challenges.” This event will be held in Berlin at the…

Researching sustainable land management in sub-Sahara Africa

Berlin, 20. September 2023

The workshop presented the programme "Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the strategy of its platform Research for Sustainability (Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit, FONA). This programme will be active over the next 4 years and has chosen…

The G7 and multilateralism in times of aggression: Maintaining and strengthening cooperative and inclusive approaches for the global common good

Beisheim, Marianne / Axel Berger / Lars Brozus / Adolf Kloke-Lesch / Ronja Scheler / Silke Weinlich (2022)
External Publications

15 Years Managing Global Governance

Online, 23. November 2022

The Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme turned 15 in 2022. In the three-day online conference “Celebrating 15 years of MGG” from 23 to 25 November, we looked back on past achievements, position ourselves in the multiple global challenges we are facing today, and envision the network and its impact in the future. On the first day of…

5th International Contested Mobility Workshop

Online, 27. September 2021

Public Event: “Covid-19 – A game changer for migration (policy)?” 27 September 2021, 2-3:30pm CEST Covid-19 in many aspects has changed our understanding of the world and it has significant effects on international migration and its policies. After more than one and a half years of the pandemic, in this panel we will discuss the…

South Africa’s changing role in global development structures: being in them but not always of them

Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth (2019)
Discussion Paper 4/2019

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos explores South Africa’s engagement in global development structures and processes such as the United Nations, the OECD-DAC, and in club governance, as well as its contribution to the evolution of African agency on the issues of global development.

Demystifying green bonds

Berensmann, Kathrin / Florence Dafe / Nannette Lindenberg (2018)
External Publications

Incentivising and regulating multi-actor partnerships and private-sector engagement in development cooperation

Wehrmann, Dorothea (2018)
Discussion Paper 21/2018

The inclusion of actors from the private sector is a central challenge in development co-operation. This study investigates how multi-actor partnerships and multi-stakeholder networks can provide a supporting structure in this regard.

G20 support for SDGs

Berensmann, Kathrin (2016)
External Publications

Post-2015: recharging governance of United Nations development

Helgason, Kristinn Sv. / Silke Weinlich (2015)
Briefing Paper 6/2015

Three options are proposed to make the UN governance arrangements fit for the delivery of the new sustainable development agenda.

Drivers and constraints for adopting sustainability standards in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Sommer, Christoph (2017)
Discussion Paper 21/2017

To “make standards work” for SMEs and sustainable development, the challenges and incentives for take-up of sustainability standards need to be better understood. The paper analyses five country case studies to identify drivers and constraints for standard adoption by SMEs and to derive policy advice.

Providing Global Public Goods: The role for the G20

Bonn, 24. January 2017

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) welcomed Inge Kaul to present her recently published book on Global Public Goods (GPGs) and to discuss the concept‘s role in the light of the German G20 presidency. Inge Kaul first presented the general concept of GPGs and its challenges. Here she focused…

Social Cohesion in Displacement Contexts

Bonn, 23. September 2025

In an increasingly globalized world, displacement, migration, and (im)mobility are a socio-political phenomenon that countries must respond and adapt to. Displacement, both cross-border and internal, presents unique challenges for communities hosting displaced people, particularly given how fraught the politics of displacement can be.…

Budget support as an aid instrument: neither pandemonium nor panacea

Leiderer, Stefan (2010)
Briefing Paper 9/2010

Climate change, land degradation & desertification

Bonn, 29. August 2016

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) welcomed Lindsay C. Stringer of the renowned Sustainability Research Institute of University of Leeds, UK, to present her new book Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change: Anticipating, assessing and adapting to future change (Earthscan 2016,…

Universalizing UN Development: a forgotten task for effective multilateralism

Baumann, Max-Otto / Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2024)
External Publications

Exploring the effectiveness of International knowledge cooperation: an analysis of selected development knowledge actors

Klingebiel, Stephan / Flora L. Hartmann / Elisa Madani / Jonas Paintner / Rebekka A. Rohe / Lisa Trebs / Teodor Wolk (2024)
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