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How and Why to Involve Policy Makers More Structurally Into Impact Evaluations?

Online, 23. February 2023

In impact evaluations, the involvement of research in program implementation is crucial for the development of an adequate design and the accurate interpretation of results. In turn, the active involvement of policy makers in the research process is important for the buy-in and effective dissemination of the results. A new tool has been…

Milan Jacobi

Milan Jacobi is Political Scientist and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of political (dis-)order".

Dropping out of voluntary community-based health insurance in rural Uganda: A mixed methods study.

Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel / Essa Chanie Mussa / Min Jung Cho (2021)
External Publications

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…

Challenges in measuring the state of the environment in developing countries: a literature review

Stepping, Katharina M.K. (2013)
Discussion Paper 25/2013

The first comprehensive comparison of cross-country environmental composite indicators evaluates their conceptual and methodological strengths and weaknesses. The study also assesses how useful these environmental indices are in the context of developing countries.

FfD4 as a turning point: overcoming challenges to strengthen sustainable development finance

Barchiche, Damien / Ben Katoka / Karim Karaki / Niels Keijzer / Iliana Olivié / Maria Santillán O’Shea (2025)
External Publications

Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for greater gender equality: synthesis study

Götze, Jacqueline / Stephan Klingebiel / Maryam Khalid (2025)
Discussion Paper 9/2025

Local feminist perspectives have the potential to act as transformation levers for greater gender equality by producing context-specific alternative approaches to development processes that address prevailing gender norms and practices.

The international community must finally provide debt relief

Berensmann, Kathrin (2023)
The Current Column, 06. November 2023

The world’s highly indebted poorest countries depend on debt relief. Otherwise, the development progress made over the past decade risks being reversed.

How Sustainable is German Foreign Policy?

, 29. October 2015

Achieving sustainable solutions for global problems requires cooperation with countries in all world regions. However, the rapidly changing and complex world order is a major challenge for countries worldwide. Thus, German foreign policy is currently faced with challenges but also opportunities. Since the end of the Cold War, power…

The social contract: an analytical tool for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond

Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl (2019)
Briefing Paper 17/2019

The social contract is a key term in social science literature focusing on state-society relations but has rarely been well. Our briefing paper suggests a concept where social contracts are sets of agreements between societal groups and the government on rights and obligations towards each other.

Application Deadline expired: Job Advertisment: Research Assistant (f/m/diverse) BioCAM4 Moeschl

To strengthen our project “BioCAM4 – Biodiversity Integration in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions for Planet, People, and Human Health”, we are looking with an immediate starting date and limited until 14.10.2027 for a research assistant

Appeal to G8

Appeal to G8 Appeal to G8: We need an “International Panel on Systemic Risks in the Global Economy” Press Release, 8 July 2009 Today, an international team of researchers under the leadership of Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), published an appeal to the world leaders participating in the G8 summit in L'Aquila in the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau : we need an “International Panel…

Aligning the financial system with net-zero emissions

Online, 26. April 2022

Finance is critical to achieving deep decarbonisation by 2050. Article 2.i.c of the 2015 Paris Agreement sets out the goal of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”. Across the financial system, banks and investors need not only to analyse and mitigate…

DIE-Postgraduates start 3-month research trip

DIE-Postgraduates start 3-month research trip DIE-Postgraduates start 3-month research trip Press Release of 16 February 2009 Since 1965 the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) trains German young professionals in its Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation . Alumnis of the Training Programme are, among others, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Dr.…

Prospects for peace in times of change

Berlin, 19. October 2022

The watershed moment of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is reshaping international cooperation and initiated a paradigm shift in German foreign policy. How will this affect crisis prevention and peacebuilding? In times of a raging climate crisis, a global pandemic, and a spike in world hunger and poverty, it has become…

Potential of blockchain technology for trade integration of developing countries

Schwab, Jakob / Jan Ohnesorge (2019)
Briefing Paper 4/2019

Blockchain technology offers great potential for the sustainable trade integration of developing countries, through its tamper-proof storage of data. However, its implementation also poses challenges.

Is Democracy in Decline?

Diamond, Larry (2015)
The Current Column, 23. February 2015

Why have freedom and democracy been regressing in many countries? The most important and pervasive answer is bad governance.

Innovating One Health Governance for Global and Local Action

8th World One Health Congress, Cape Town, 20. September 2024

The failure of cross-sectoral coordination represents the greatest risk for the sustainable implementation of the One Health approach. It is therefore important to understand existing governance mechanisms for collaboration of relevant sectors, identify potential barriers of cross-sectoral coordination and explore potential solutions of…

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NDC-SDG Connections: Data on updated NDC submissions (V2)

Dzebo, Adis / Aparajita Banerjee / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Raphaelle Beaussart (2024)
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