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Development cooperation in a multilevel and multistakeholder setting: from planning towards enabling coordinated action?

Lundsgaarde, Erik / Niels Keijzer (2018)
External Publications

The forest in sub-Saharan Africa needs comprehensive strategies for energy from biomass

Brüntrup, Michael / Harry Hoffmann / Klas Sander (2018)
The Current Column, 29. March 2018

21 March did see the celebration of the International Day of Forests, although very few forest campaigners are in celebratory mood. Many millions of hectares of forest have been lost since the 1970s in the tropics, something for which the expansion of forest area in the temperate zones has been unable to compensate.

The heterogeneous effects of conditional cash transfers across geographical clusters: do energy factors matter?

Malerba, Daniele (2018)
External Publications

Framing communication of the SDGs in the EU

, 23. March 2018

Through the global 2030 Agenda, the European Union and its member states have committed to sustainable development with its clear resolve to ‘leave no one behind’. Europe is nevertheless still struggling to embrace these goals: broad swathes of civil society and business associations, as well as political parties, promote their agendas…

Applying the water-energy-food nexus to the charcoal value chain

Hoffmann, Harry K. / Klas Sander / Michael Brüntrup / Stefan Sieber (2017)
External Publications

Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: is blended sustainability the way forward?

Mockshell, Jonathan / Josey Kamanda (2018)
External Publications

Taking a step back: economic performance and issue salience of international trade policy

Nguyen, Quynh (2018)
External Publications

From gender parity to gender equality: changing women’s lived realities

Manlosa, Aisa / Denise Margaret Matias (2018)
The Current Column, 05. March 2018

This year’s International Women’s Day advocates for a “gender parity mindset.” But what is gender parity? What role does it play in promoting gender equality?

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

EU budget reform: opportunities and challenges for global sustainable development

Hackenesch, Christine / Julian Bergmann / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (2018)
Briefing Paper 4/2018

With the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) the EU defines not only the financial, but also the political priorities until 2030. The next MFF will therefore be a milestone for the EU’s implementation of the Agenda 2030. We make five proposals how the Agenda could be anchored within the MFF.

Energy democracy and the city: evaluating the practice and potential of municipal sustainability planning

Teron, Lemir / Susan Ekoh (2018)
External Publications

Strategic policymaking and the German aid programme in the MENA region since the Arab uprisings

Furness, Mark (2018)
Discussion Paper 5/2018

Germany’s annual aid to MENA countries more than doubled since 2011, but without a public strategy setting out objectives and the role of aid and other policy tools in achieving them. A whole of government strategy based on the 2030 Agenda could balance German interests with the MENA’s development priorities.

Capacity Building for the 2030 Agenda

Brasilia, 26. February 2018

The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become universal guideposts for transformative change at the domestic and global level. While responsibility for the design of SDG policies lies with legitimate actors, such as parliaments and political leaders, public administration plays an indispensable role for…

Tracing sustainability transformations and drivers of green economy approaches in the global south

Lederer, Markus / Linda Wallbott / Steffen Bauer (2018)
External Publications

Is Trump's tax reform bad for developing countries?

von Haldenwang, Christian / Jakob Schwab (2018)
The Current Column, 12. February 2018

At first glance, Trump's tax reform does not seem to bode well for investment in developing countries. While things do not necessarily have to turn out this way, international tax cooperation is still at risk.

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.

Aardgas is toch niet het schone alternatief

Pauw, Pieter (2018)
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.

The world in 2050

Bonn, 29. January 2018

The World in 2050 ( TWI2050 ) seeks to frame the solution space for sustainable development pathways, based on comprehensively achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and sustaining progress to 2050 and beyond within planetary boundaries. To this end TWI2050 is to provide fact-based knowledge to support the policy…

Janetschek, Hannah

Researcher, Research Programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability".