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Gender and Sanitation: Why it matters for women and girls

Online, 30. April 2024

In close connection to the World Water Day on 22 March, the UN-HABITAT, Water integrity Network (WIN) and IDOS is organising as part of the BWN group. Speakers Pireh Hezekiah , UN-HABITAT Allen Adriana , University College London Saravanan V. Subramanian , German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Rebecca Sands , Water…

UN Global Digital Compact

Online, 24. May 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

UN – Meaningful Youth Engagement

Online, 10. May 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

Summit of the Future and SDG Summit

Online, 15. March 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

Open Letter

Open Letter European Think-Tanks Group sends Open Letter to EU Commission Press Release of 10 May 2010 Earlier this year, four of Europe’s leading think-tanks – German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) – joined forces to build the “European…

Convergence and Divergence of Official Development Assistance and South-South Cooperation

New York, 22. May 2018

Bringing together researchers from emerging economies, developing countries and OECD DAC countries can lead to discussions going beyond traditional political patterns and lines of argumentation, generating a focused and research-based debate with a practical orientation on development cooperation. This side event had the purpose to…

Oslo Workshop on International Co-operation in Science, Technology and Innovation to Address Global Challenges

Oslo, 18. May 2011

Improving multilateral collaboration to address global change Given the potential of international collaboration in science, technology and innovation (STI) to facilitate quality, efficient, and effective research to address global challenges, the study of what allows for fruitful collaboration is important to consider. To this end, the…

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…

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity

Bonn, 22. June 2015

Fighting poverty is one of the most important tasks of the international development agenda and will logically take a central role in the post-2015 agenda . In the past, major progress has been achieved in poverty reduction. However, many of those who emerged from poverty in recent years remain vulnerable to shocks and slowdowns in…

US Development Cooperation in the Obama Era: Discussion with J. Brian Atwood, Dean, Hubert H. Humphrey

Bonn, 25. June 2009

Discussion with J. Brian Atwood, Dean, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (USAID Administrator 1993 - 1999) On June 25, 2009, the German Development Institute and the Bonn Chapter of the Society for International Development welcomed J. Brian Atwood, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public…

DIE ranked as top Think Tank

DIE ranked as top Think Tank DIE ranked as top Think Tank Press Release, 23 January 2013 For the fifth consecutive time, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has been selected as one of the Top Ten influential think tanks and research institutions in the field of development policy worldwide by the recently released 2012 Global Go To Think Tanks Report . DIE is one of only three European research institutes ranked in…

Gene editing – A responsible means to assure food security

Bonn, 22. May 2019

Since more than 35 years, genetic manipulation of organisms has been studied scientifically to change characteristics of organisms faster than and sometimes different from what can be reached by traditional ways of breeding. A number of countries, mainly USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and India have rolled out large-scale cultivation of…

Upgrading in Global Value Chains

Bonn, 28. November 2016

The workshop brought together researchers from both qualitative and quantitative research backgrounds who have shown their expertise in this field in order to promote an exchange about the state of the art and potential future research avenues in relation to upgrading in GVCs. Each participant had the opportunity to present their recent…

Promoting a green and just recovery - leveraging the potential of G20 and G7 cooperation

Berger, Axel / Sven Grimm (2021)
External Publications

DIE retains its place among the world’s best Development Think Tanks

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) was voted one of the best research institutions and policy-advisers on development policy in the world. This is according to the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index Report by the University of Pennsylvania, which was released today. Its sixth place in the category Top International Development Think Tanks puts the DIE in the same league as international benchmarks such as the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the British Chatham House and the American Brookings Institution.

Drought Risk Management, Natural Resource Management and Social Protection: New alliances for sustainability and resilience

Online, 04. June 2020

DIE was co-hosting a session at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Bonn Digital Conference 2020 . Together with our partners and conference participants, we explored research and policy pathways for improved drought risk management through landscape approaches and social protection interventions across the African continent in times of…

Social Cohesion Week

Online, 09. November 2020

In recent years social cohesion has been receiving increasing attention not only in policy circles but also in academic discussions. The COVID- 19 pandemic has made the relevance of social cohesion tangible in new ways. Governments, civil society and international organizations underline the importance of social cohesion to tackle the…

EDP-Network-Meeting

Bonn, 26. April 2018

The EDP network is a collaborative project of six partner institutions: the two Leibniz institutes Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), as well as three universities (Erfurt, Konstanz, Lüneburg). The…

Global Tax Expenditures Database

Online, 16. June 2021

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are officially launching their joint project: The Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED): www.GTED.net . GTED is the first database that brings together publicly available official information on tax expenditures…