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Cash-for-work as an instrument of reconstruction in Syria

Zintl, Tina / Markus Loewe (2025)
The Current Column, 17. March 2025

It is equally important to restore the social fabric and re-establish trust – a country’s ‘software’ – as it is to rebuild the physical infrastructure – its ‘hardware’ – during the reconstruction of war-torn countries.

IDOS in den Medien

Das German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) erfährt auch 2023 eine breite Medienaufmerksamkeit, es folgt eine Übersicht der Beiträge.

Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion: avoiding blueprint traps and incomplete democratic transitions

Leininger, Julia / Sebastian Ziaja (2014)
Briefing Paper 11/2014

Democracy is a highly valued policy goal for the West, but democracy support is feared to undermine another important goal, namely political stability. Our findings suggest that a gradualist approach that builds institutions while encouraging mobilization is more viable than sequencing.

Die Rosenmontags-Kolumne: wir liefern Entwicklung

von Haldenwang, Christian (2011)
The Current Column, 07. March 2011

The Role of Knowledge in Creating a “Science of Delivery”

Bonn, 28. February 2013

Aniruddha Dasgupta is the Director of “Knowledge & Learning” at the World Bank. He is one of the leaders behind the current change process in the World Bank Group under the new President Jim Y. Kim. The World Bank Group is currently undertaking to become a Solutions Bank. Aniruddha Dasgupta will talk about the need to think of knowledge…

Knowledge sharing for global development – Building up new partnerships

Bonn, 17. November 2011

The World Bank is positioning itself as a knowledge institution – not just a lending bank – by creating, sharing and applying knowledge for development. World Bank Managing Director Mahmoud Mohieldin presented the recently published comprehensive report on the topic: "Knowledge for Development". The report recognizes that knowledge, not…

The Energiewende – or: how not to do it

Ruchser, Matthias (2012)
The Current Column, 03. September 2012

Gleichberechtigte Wissenschaftskooperation weltweit

Bonn & online, 19. August 2024

Wissenschaftskooperationen zwischen Partnern aus Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen auf der einen Seite und Ländern mit hohem Einkommen auf der anderen sollen gleichberechtigt sein. Diese Norm ist in Deutschland Konsens; alle Strategie-Leitdokumente der deutschen Außen- und Forschungspolitik bekräftigen die Norm nachdrücklich –…

The new World Bank head wants some changes: that could backfire

Gehring, Kai / Lennart Kaplan / Melvin Wong (2019)
External Publications

IDOS@HSC2025

Hamburg, 01. July 2025

The HSC is a new conference format aimed at fostering the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the HSC, leading minds from politics, business, science and civil society plan the implementation of joint processes to achieve the SDGs. In times of increasing geopolitical crises, the HSC promotes multilateral…

Successfully promoting decentralisation: the potential of the multi-stakeholder approach

Groß, Lisa (2018)
Briefing Paper 2/2018

Sustainable Development Goal 17 assigns an important role to multi-stakeholder approaches in the implementation of the SDGs. This briefing paper explores how the multi-stakeholderapproach can make a concrete contribution to the success of decentralisation reforms.

New Sustainable Development pathways reflecting different societal perspectives

Online, 16. February 2023

Achieving the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the Agenda 2020 requires holistic Sustainable Development Pathways (SDPs) that maximise synergies and avoid, minimise or compensate for trade-offs. The orientation towards this much broader target space challenges the IAM community to broaden their…

Food, Fuel and People: Climate Change and Public Policy Concerns for Developing Asia

Bonn, 20. October 2009

Welche Auswirkungen hat der Klimawandel auf Asien? Drei neue Studien beantworten diese Frage bezogen auf die Themen Energieversorgung, Nahrungsmittelversorgung und Migration. Die von der Asian Development Bank (ADB) finanzierten Studien wurden von der deutschen ADB-Vizepräsidentin, Ursula Schäfer-Preuss, am DIE vorgestellt. Die…

Development consultants and contractors: for-profit companies in the changing world of ‘Aidland’

Online, 18. November 2021

In the first of five research-in-progress seminars co-hosted this autumn and winter by the American Associations of Geographers’ (AAG) Development Geographies Specialty Group and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Professor Emma Mawdsley of the University of Cambridge is asking for…

„A Digital Agenda for Sustainable Development – Perspectives from South Africa”

Pretoria, 27. June 2018

Addressing global challenges by joint knowledge production are at the core of the dialogue, research and training programme Managing Global Governance (MGG) that is implemented by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) with partners from emerging economies. The Sustainable Development Goals…

Survey on administrative challenges of Mozambican municipalities in the area of own revenue generation

Associação Nacional dos Municípios de Moçambique (ANAMM) / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (DIE) / Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE) (2019)
Research Data

The External Dimension of the European Green Deal – Prospects for Cooperation with (Re)Emerging Powers

Online, 16. November 2020

The European Green Deal is the main roadmap of the EU Commission for energy transition and for tackling climate change. First and foremost, it defines internal plans and strategies for the EU that will also have global effects. For promoting the global public good, the EU will need partners to jointly work with. The Green Deal Diplomacy…

The Power of Cooperation: Shaping a Positive narrative of Global Governance in South Africa

Pretoria, 04. November 2019

In a polarised world, amid the global rise of nationalism and populism and with global governance and internationale dialogue at risk, one purpose of the MGG network is to create and hold open spaces of dialogue and internationale cooperation. The conference „The Power of Cooperation: Shaping a Positive Narrative of Global Governance“…

The Power of Cooperation: Shaping a Positive narrative of Global Governance in Brazil

Brasília, 19. September 2019

In a polarised world, amid the global rise of nationalism and populism and with global governance and internationale dialogue at risk, one purpose of the MGG network is to create and hold open spaces of dialogue and internationale cooperation. The conference „The Power of Cooperation: Shaping a Positive Narrative of Global Governance“…

Local and regional governments in the follow-up and review of global sustainability agendas

Dellas, Eleni / Alexander Carius / Marianne Beisheim / Susan Parnell / Dirk Messner (2018)
External Publications