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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

Bonn, 26. September 2018

Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are climate frontliners with a strong sense of belonging and connection to their immediate environments. They have unique insights on local climate risks and impacts. The establishment of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) within the Paris Agreement (Decision…

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.

Inequality, sustainability and middle classes in a polycentric world

Guarín, Alejandro / Peter Knorringa (2015)
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Contributing to Social Cohesion Through Development Cooperation

Bonn, 07. August 2019

Inequalities around the world, political polarization and persisting violent conflicts have triggered an increasing interest in social cohesion. In reaction to these trends, an increasing number of projects in development cooperation aim to improve social cohesion. However, many questions remain on what actually makes societies stick…

New Book-Release on “G20 and Global Development“

New Book-Release on “G20 and Global Development“ New Book-Release: E-Publication of German Development Institute on “G20 and Global Development“ Press Release of 11 October 2010 Today, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) publishes its first E-Publication on “ G20 and Global Development: How can the new summit architecture promote pro-poor growth and sustainability? ". The G20 has recently decided to establish a working…

Shifting gears and forging ahead: Research for transformative climate governance after "Paris"

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Klaus Jacob (2016)
The Current Column, 18. May 2016

The Bonn Climate Change Conference 2016 provides a first litmus test for the value of the Paris deal – will it prove as 'historic' as it has been heralded in the wake of the Paris conference or will it turn into another paper tiger of international law?

Next steps towards a comprehensive Africa-EU partnership

Online, 03. November 2021

In March 2020, the EU published a proposal for a comprehensive strategy with Africa, ahead of their regular summit with the African Union scheduled for October that year. Both the strategy and the planned summit were soon overtaken by the dramatic events of the global COVID-19 pandemic. One and a half years onwards, discussions are now…

Job advertisment: Doctoral Researcher (f/m/diverse) POESIS Submerged Dependencies

The BCDSS–IDOS research group, Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea (POESIS), invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher (f/m/diverse)

Integrating the environmental dimension into national One Health AMR strategies

Lisbon, Portugal, 05. September 2026

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a defining One Health challenge. While human-animal health coordination has advanced through integrated surveillance and stewardship, the environmental dimension – regarding wastewater and waste management, agri-food- systems, and urbanizing landscapes – remains weakly integrated in national strategies to…

Global Summit Prenegotiation: The Case of the Australian G20 Presidency

Bonn, 31. May 2016

Public Lecture with Larry Crump In 2017, Germany will take over the G20 presidency after China. After ‘middle powers’ such as Australia and Turkey chaired the G20 for years, global economic heavyweights are now taking over. While continuity and effectivity have become crucial for G20 to maintain its relevance, we know little about the…

Averting Water Wars in Asia

Bonn, 25. June 2014

The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, especially in the South and East China Seas, has obscured another danger: water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization and peace. Water has emerged as a key security issue that could determine if Asia is headed toward cooperation or…

The Rise of Informal Summitry: Implications for Global Governance

Duisburg, 15. April 2014

In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Andrew Cooper examined the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organisations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organisations differ from the formal institutions such as the UN and the IMF in a number of key ways:…

Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS)

The public sector capacity development activities for the implementation of the Agenda 2030 enable mutual learning between Schools of Public Administration (SPAs) from MGG partner countries.

Kiel Institute and DIE support G20

Kiel Institute and DIE support G20 Kiel Institute and DIE support G20 Press Release, 29 July 2016 Kiel, Bonn, 29 July 2016. The Federal Government has jointly entrusted the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, with the support of Germany's G20 presidency next year. The two institutes are tasked with chairing and organising the so-called T20 process, during which…

Aid Effectiveness for the Next Decade

Online, 28. January 2021

Does aid contribute to development? If so, under what conditions and to what extent? These questions are as old as the field of development policy itself and they have been controversially discussed among researchers and policymakers ever since. Yet, current trends like the outbreak of the Corona pandemic , progress (or lack thereof) in…

The Effects of Remedial Education in Refugee Settings

Bonn, 09. May 2019

This presentation focused on the impact of the Equity in Education in Refugee Camps in Kenya (EERCK) remedial education program implemented by World University Service of Canada (WUSC) in Dadaab and Kakuma, and the program’s journey to scale. We designed a rigorous two-part study to estimate the impact of the EERCK program on the…

Nature-based solutions and Global Climate Action

Madrid, 03. December 2019

Nature-based solutions play a key role in taking Global Climate Action beyond 2020. Successful solutions from high value biodiversity areas are featured. Nature-based entrepreneurship initiatives shared best practices and discussed strengthening and expanding Global Climate Action within the UNFCCC. Speakers: Sander Chan , Senior…

Innovation in Development: the future of EU international Cooperation

Brussels, 18. October 2018

As a continuation of the public debate hold at the European Parliament on 17 October, ETTG organised a research conference to which it invited its community of researchers, partners and stakeholders to discuss together the possible responses that the European Union can give to face the current development challenges. The focus was mainly…

58th Course

58th Course Jump to: 58. Kurs 58. Kurs Forschungsteams im 58. Postgraduiertenkurs Die Umsetzung der südafrikanischen Green Finance-Taxonomie Leitung: Dr. Kathrin Berensmann und Sören Hilbrich Mitglieder: Giovanna Artmann (International Development Studies) Theresa Herbold (Agricultural Economics) Agnese Monti (Political Science- Political Economy Track) Steffen Lötters-Viehof (Internationale Beziehungen und Entwicklungspolitik) Felix Paffhausen (Public Policy &…

State of the science of “political futures”

Bonn, Germany, 24. October 2022

Rationale : Enhancing the use of social science expertise is fundamental to the development of scenarios of climate and societal futures that are responsive to a wider range of challenges towards strong climate action and sustainability. In particular, there is an agreement that socio-political factors must inform scenarios and be…