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Local feminist perspectives as transformative levers: women’s health and climate action in India

Sengupta, Sreerupa / Divya Singhal / Ananya Chakraborty (2025)
Discussion Paper 8/2025

Local feminist perspectives from India offer a transformative lens for addressing systemic inequalities in health and climate action, centering on the need for intersectional, community-led and collaborative approaches.

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.

Colonial continuities in the area of social protection

Online, 12. March 2025

Online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into French / Discussion en ligne en anglais avec traduction simultanée en français Across low and middle-income countries, many policy fields continue to be shaped by the effects of colonialism and post-colonialism. This is particularly true for social protection. Some of today’s…

Info Session March on the application phase for the 61st Postgraduate Programme

Online, 13. March 2025

Until March 31, we welcome applications from postgraduate students for our 61 st postgraduate programme. Are you looking for an exciting and research-intensive preparation for your work in international cooperation for development and sustainability? In our postgraduate programme, we enhance the competences of participants aspiring a…

Trade Policy in Turbulent Times: Perspectives from the Global South

Online, 13. March 2025

In light of the recent political developments, particularly the new term of President Trump and his approach to trade policy, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS ) in cooperation with the G20 Trade and Investment Research Network (TIRN) organized a high-level expert roundtable to explore the future of global…

Transforming aid-funded renewable energy systems: a case study of policy-driven financial sustainability in rural Bangladesh

Yi, HyunAh / Kyung Nam Kim (2025)
External Publications

Making supply chains sustainable

Special “Making Supply Chains sustainable”: Our Research on supply chains helps to identify opportunities for companies in developing countries.

Why we need to fight right-wing populism to save our glaciers!

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2025)
The Current Column, 19. March 2025

Sustainable water management must be central to climate strategies, not just as an environmental necessity but as a safeguard for communities, jobs, and economic stability—issues that resonate across political divides.

How to deal with the current debt crisis of developing countries?

Zattler, Jürgen (2025)
Discussion Paper 11/2025

This paper presents a practical and coherent approach to address the current debt crisis which focuses as far as possible on incentives for debtor countries and private creditors.

Preparing the international development job market for the future

Bonn, 24. March 2025

The international development labour market, including in Germany, is undergoing significant changes, especially at the entry level. The sector is facing significant pressure, both financially and due to the current political and public discourse. Moreover, the current international system is marked by global power shifts and systemic…

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IDOS is working interdisciplinary and combines different regional knowledge.

Transformation of Economic and Social Systems

Transformation of Economic and Social Systems Jump to: Experts Cluster Current Projects The transformation to sustainability can only be achieved by means of fundamentally reforming economic and social systems at national and global level. Researchers in this department are examining the impacts of global economic dynamics on developing countries and emerging economies and observing the interplay between globalisation on the one hand and national economic and social…

The Changing Landscape of Sustainability Governance. What next for VSS?

Bonn, 31. March 2025

The UNFSS Academic Advisory Council (AAC) annual meeting brought together an international mix of academic and policy experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to consolidate the knowledge on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and contribute to a comprehensive understanding of VSS effectiveness. The global sustainability…

Financing for development: from Monterrey to Seville

Klingebiel, Stephan / Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda / Kathrin Berensmann (eds.) (2025)
Discussion Paper 12/2025

The UN Financing for Development (FfD) process, including the Fourth FfD Conference (FfD4) in Seville in 2025, is key to fostering global cooperation in the context of current geopolitical tensions and multiple crises. This paper provides meaningful input for FfD4 by exploring innovative approaches.

How the FfD process should promote a better alignment of financial markets with sustainability goals

Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann / Clara Brandi (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

The Future of World Trade

Special "Future of the World Trade System": The world trade system is in a phase of upheaval and uncertainty. Against this background, the trade experts at DIE analyse the effectiveness, legitimacy and sustainability of the international trading system.

Mission and Vision

IDOS’ mission, is to through research, policy advice, transregional knowledge cooperation and training, collaboratively develop shared visions of, scientific expertise, transformative pathways and innovations for sustainable futures.

Application Deadline expired: Job advertisment: Full professorship for Global Policy for Sustainable Development / Deputy Director of IDOS (m/f/d)

We are looking for a strategically minded and integrative leader with excellent research experience in the field of global sustainable development.

Germany's new government

Online, 16. April 2025

The coalition agreement for a new German government is now in place. How does a future CDU/CSU and SPD government wants to rethink and organise its relations with actors in the Global South and German development policy? IDOS experts provided first assessments with regard to Germany's foreign policies in a virtual press briefing on…

Knowledge Cooperation

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