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Modicare could help India’s poor population

Strupat, Christoph (2019)
The Current Column, 11. March 2019

India has long played a key role in including poor households in the health care system. The country with one of the highest levels of absolute poverty in the world.

The sustainability transition requires extended and differentiated North-South cooperation for innovation - UNCTAD Background Paper

Stamm, Andreas (2023)
Books

Partner meeting of the BMZ African-German Leadership Academy

Online, 29. June 2021

The African German Leadership Academy aims to provide the leadership skills and knowledge needed to foster sustainable development in line with the development visions of Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This innovative and primarily in-person dialogue and training programme brings together young…

The G20 before the Hamburg Summit

Bonn, 20. June 2017

In July 2017, leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Hamburg, Germany, for their annual summit, discussing matters of international cooperation among the world’s most powerful economies. Since the summit fell during a period of heightened international turbulence, the outcome and ambition of the G20 process under Germany’s leadership were…

Mario Negre

Mario Negre is Economist and former Senior Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

Press release: New Bonn Water Network strengthens competences for sustainable water solutions

Today we are launching the 'Bonn Water Network' in order to coordinate and intensify their endeavours for sustainable water futures.

Sustainable Supply Chains in Times of Multiple Crises

Vienna and Online, 06. December 2022

The Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI), a UNIDO flagship event since 2016, is jointly organized with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the Kiel Centre for Globalization. The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) joined the consortium…

Capacity-Building for the 2030 Agenda: The Role of Civil Servants in a Multi-Stakeholder Environment

New York, 11. July 2018

With a particular focus on SDG 17 and its target 9, the side event during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2018 in New York explored new approaches to building the capacity of civil servants to act in collaborative partnership with diverse stakeholders in the context of the 2030 Agenda. Based on good practices and…

Revisiting Diversity in Leadership Programmes

Online, 12. June 2025

As part of the Science Dialogue Day series, the virtual session on June 12th continues the exchange among leadership academies in North Rhine-Westphalia as initiated in 2024 . Building on the discussions from the 1 st Science Dialogue Day, which focused on strategies for diversity and inclusion in leadership programmes, this virtual…

Cumbersome but essential: the United Nations Financing for Development process ahead of its 4th Conference

Berensmann, Kathrin / Clara Brandi / Sören Hilbrich / Yabibal Walle (2025)
External Publications

Digging our own grave – democratically

Mathis, Okka Lou (2017)
The Current Column, 15. September 2017

Despite living in a democracy, we have been compromising a peaceful and stable future for decades: climate change is continuing to destroys our foundations of existence and contributes to conflicts - here too. Our democracy invites us to postpone the climate change problem rather than resolve it. The transformation to sustainability is only possible if we change it.

Measuring the social, economic and political effects of social protection

Bonn, 15. April 2015

The organisers welcomed about 55 international participants to join the workshop on “ Measuring the social, economic and political effects of social protection: How to overcome the challenges? ” on 15-17 April 2015 at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. The Workshop has…

Knowledge Cooperation

Researchers at IDOS investigate the role of transnational knowledge actors and knowledge communities in exploring and shaping global change.

The G20 and Africa – an alliance for sustainability?

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger (2017)
The Current Column, 30. January 2017

Cooperation with Africa is high on Germany’s agenda for its G20 Presidency. This creates high expectations for Germany and Europe’s future policies on Africa.

The European Union Trust Fund for Africa: what implications for future EU development policy?

Castillejo, Clare (2017)
Briefing Paper 5/2017

The European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) is a central part of the EU’s engagement in the area of migration policy. The paper reviews what the EUTF has achieved since it was established at the Valletta Summit in Malta in November 2015.

Post 2015: getting down to the nitty-gritty: measuring the state of the environment

Stepping, Katharina M.K. (2014)
Briefing Paper 5/2014

Environmental indicators provide crucial information about the state of the environment. Yet, the availability and quality of data remain poor in a large number of countries. Integrating environmental goals and targets in the post-2015 agenda requires efforts for data gathering and processing.

The United Nations MDG +10 Summit: development consensus renewed, implementation nowhere in sight

Weinlich, Silke (2010)
The Current Column, 20. September 2010

The G20 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Scholz, Imme / Clara Brandi (2020)
External Publications

The role of cities: implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Paris agreement

Brandi, Clara (2018)
External Publications

The role of networks in accelerating NDC implementation

Bonn, 07. May 2018

The International Network of Climate Change Centres of Excellence and Think Tanks for Capacity Building, INCCCETT 4CB is an international collaborative initiative that was launched during COP22 to support collaboration and exchange between international climate change think tanks. Under the 13 founding members there are inter alia the…