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From Climate Negotiations to Resilient Health Systems

Berlin, 14. October 2025

This high-level event aims to explore the critical role of international climate policies in building climate-resilient health systems on national and local level. Taking place at a strategically important time, immediately before the COP30 negotiations, the event will examine how new policies can strengthen and protect the most…

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha is a Senior Researcher in the research programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability" at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).

African views on external support for democracy in times of multipolarity

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger / Daniel Nowack / Armin von Schiller (2025)
External Publications

Transparenzportale in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Mehr Wirksamkeit und bessere Kommunikation?

Janus, Heiner / Tim Röthel (2025)
Policy Brief 20/2025

Mehr Transparenz führt zu mehr Rechenschaft, höherem Vertrauen und besserer Entwicklungszusammenarbeit - aber nicht zwangsläufig. Wie können Geber digitale Transparenzportale trotzdem nutzen, um über ihre Arbeit zu berichten?

Entwicklungshilfe unter Druck: Drei Maßnahmen sollen Effizienz steigern

Janus, Heiner / Armin von Schiller (2025)
External Publications

Der Druck auf die Entwicklungspolitik ist enorm. Bei einer Reform kommt es jetzt vor allem darauf an, die Rolle des zuständigen Ministeriums neu zu definieren.

Global frameworks for regulating facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence: adaptive and inclusive governance

Öge, Kerem / Manuel Quintin (2025)
Policy Brief 19/2025

Governance of facial recognition remains fragmented worldwide, sidelining key voices. Our new brief outlines steps for adaptive, inclusive AI regulation ahead of the 2026 AI Impact Summit.

Zukunft gestalten: Vier Szenarien für die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Klingebiel, Stephann / Andy Sumner (2025)
External Publications

Stephan Klingebiel und Andy Sumner analysieren, wie geopolitische Veränderungen, strittige Normen und institutionelle Umbrüche die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit grundlegend verändern. Die aktuelle Krise beruht nicht nur auf finanziellen Aspekten oder zykli- schen Einflüssen, sondern markiert einen grundlegenden Wandel der weltweiten Entwicklungs- politik. Es steht ein Wendepunkt an, der entscheidende Veränderungen – positiv oder negativ – mit sich bringen kann. Was folgt nun?

Development cooperation at a tipping point: how do policy norms break?

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
External Publications

The global system of development cooperation is entering uncertain territory. For decades, multilateralism and global solidarity shaped the expectations of how global development policy should be organised and justified. These norms provided a degree of stability, even if practice often fell short. In a new Discussion Paper we argue that those assumptions can no longer be taken for granted.

What is the way forward for the crisis-ridden World Trade Organization?

Berger, Axel (2025)
The Current Column, 29. September 2025

The WTO should not be turned into a problem unnecessarily and continues to be the central platform for promoting a cooperative and rules-based system of world trade.

French-German development collaboration in MENA: options for humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) and triple nexus cooperation in Libya and Iraq

Mühlberger, Wolfgang (2025)
Discussion Paper 30/2025

How do French-German relations affect international cooperation across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace spectrum? This paper gauges the merits of and potential for bilateral collaborative action in the Middle East and North Africa to counter fragility, safeguard interests and support development.

Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break?

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2025)
Discussion Paper 29/2025

This paper applies the concepts and theories of ‘policy norms’ to the disruptive effects of the second Trump administration on global development cooperation.

Climate mainstreaming in environmental treaties

Olivier, Annabelle / Jean-Frédéric Morin (2025)
Policy Brief 17/2025

Montreal Protocol: lessons for future climate actions

Banerjee, Aparajita (2025)
The Current Column, 15. September 2025

The pertinent lessons from the success of the Montreal Protocol can inform future international climate agreements.

Communicating strategic interests in humanitarian aid may help counter authoritarian propaganda and build trust in Europe

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
Policy Brief 16/2025

Can strategic transparency counter authoritarian spin? New experimental evidence from Turkey suggests yes - but only if donors carefully balance realpolitik with humanitarian values.

Justice in Global tax governance: assessing the role of tax expenditures

von Haldenwang, Christian / Sabine Laudage Teles (2025)
External Publications

Three topics for a repositioning of the UN’s development arm

Baumann, Max-Otto (2025)
The Current Column, 08. September 2025

The comprehensive UN80 reform initiative may primarily be a response to financial constraints, but it also offers an opportunity to reposition the UN.

Strategic humanitarian aid, trust in Europe and support for authoritarianism

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
Discussion Paper 28/2025

What happens when donors admit humanitarian aid is strategic? An experiment in Turkey shows it undercuts regime propaganda and builds trust in Europe among conservative Eurosceptic voters.

Hydrogen’s trend and its meaning for low- and middle-income countries

Stamm, Andreas (2025)
The Current Column, 01. September 2025

Five years after the publication of the hydrogen strategies, euphoria has given way to disappointment.

Deutschland und die Unterstützung des Wiederaufbaus der Ukraine

Bergmann, Julian (2025)
External Publications

Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Umwelt- und Klimaschutz

Bauer, Steffen (2025)
External Publications