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How do foreign aid agencies learn? A comparative analysis of organisational learning determinants in national donor bureaucracies

Janus, Heiner / Daniel E. Esser (2025)
External Publications

Navigating the tipping point: four futures for global development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
External Publications

In a new policy brief, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner discuss how and why the very foundations of international aid and development are being shaken by geopolitical shifts, contested norms, and institutional upheaval.

Strategic humanitarian aid – could it weaken autocracies and boost confidence in Europe? (Strategische humanitäre Hilfe – Kann sie Autokratien schwächen und Vertrauen in Europa stärken?)

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
External Publications

Social protection and coloniality: learning from the past and present: Tanzania case study

Lambin, Roosa / Winnie C. Muangi (2025)
Discussion Paper 20/2025

Mainland Tanzania grapples with colonial legacies, donor influence, and structural exclusions in its social protection arrangements. This Discussion Paper reveals how external influences and domestic factors intersect to shape an evolving social protection landscape.

Social protection and coloniality: learning from the past and present: Côte d’Ivoire case study

Lambin, Roosa / Arsène Brice Bado (2025)
Discussion Paper 19/2025

How do colonial legacies, external policy agendas, and domestic ambition shape social protection in Francophone West Africa? This new case study on Côte d’Ivoire explores how external and domestic forces have contributed to social protection formation both historically and today.

Social protection and coloniality: learning from the past and present: framework paper

Roelen, Keetie / Roosa Lambin / Arsène Brice Bado / Thaís de Carvalho / Julia Chukwuma / Kevin Deane / Winnie C. Muangi (2025)
Discussion Paper 21/2025

Across low and middle-income countries, social protection continues to be shaped by the effects of colonialism. This paper analyses how social protection across Africa is characterised by colonial legacy and postcolonial influence and how this intersects with countries’ own interests and priorities.

IDOS in den Medien

Das German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) erfährt auch 2024 eine breite Medienaufmerksamkeit, es folgt eine Übersicht der Beiträge.