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Envisioning New Partnerships for Africa’s Future

Bonn, 16. Dezember 2013

The GG2022 program (www.gg2022.net) was jointly organized by the Global Public Policy Institute, Hertie School of Governance, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. The program was generously supported by the Robert Bosch…

United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for global development: perspectives from China and Europe

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (eds.) (2014)
Studies 84

The book reflects current thinking among scholars in China and Germany on the post-2015 global development agenda. The contributions from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the German Development Institute reflect differences, but also surprising convergence of perspectives.

Regional Migration Governance in Africa

Bonn, 11. Dezember 2017

While migration from Africa to Europe leads news headlines, migration within the African continent is much more prevalent, and requires effective policy responses. In the last two decades, regional organisations in Africa, such as ECOWAS in West Africa and IGAD at the Horn of Africa, have developed policies to address human mobility.…

Taking Global Climate Action beyond 2020 - Accelerating the Sustainable Future We Want

, 17. Juni 2019

The 50th sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) took place in Bonn, Germany, from 17-27 June 2019. The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and York University were honoured to convene an official side…

Drivers and Constraints for Adopting Sustainability Standards in SMEs and the Demand for Finance

Berlin, 25. April 2017

The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss country cases from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa on the relevance of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors of the case studies are partners of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network. Representatives…

Can the Anthropocene become sustainable?

Bonn and Online, 02. Juni 2022

The Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research cooperatively organizes the bonnalliance lecture series in the field of “sustainable development”. Until 1972, environmental protection was essentially local; “The Limits to Growth” was the breakthrough to global environmental policy. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, German environmental scientist…

Linking Policies and People: New Insights on Migration and Development

Bonn, 30. Oktober 2019

Numbers of international migrants are at a historic high. While people have always been on the move and the benefits of migration are internationally acknowledged, reaping these benefits through “safe, orderly and regular migration” (SDG 10.7) continues to be a challenge at international, national and local levels. Moreover, the numbers…

The G20 before the Hamburg Summit

Bonn, 20. Juni 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…

Regine Mehl

Regine Mehl ist Politikwissenschaftlerin und ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Forschungsprogramms "Inter- und transnationale Zusammenarbeit".

Impact Assessments in Governance Programmes

Bonn, 10. November 2016

Measuring the performance and impact of governance programmes is challenging. Due to the complexity of these programmes and the difficulty to gauge their outcomes, among other reasons, rigorous evaluations are less common in governance than in other sectors. In response to these shortcomings, GIZ and the German Development Institute /…

ISIS, Charlie Hebdo, and Enduring Dictatorship

Bonn, 19. März 2015

A new global order is in the making. Basic global principles such as the Westphalian order are eroding and seem to lose support globally. Equally, democracy has been on decline since 2006. Freedom House’s report Freedom in the World 2015 highlights new and disturbing global trends, including a more explicit rejection of democratic…

International support to peace and democracy in fragile states

Bonn, 16. Dezember 2014

It has almost become common knowledge that fragile states pose an immense challenge to international cooperation. Documents such as the OECD “Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Situations” and the “New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States” demonstrate that the international community has tried to tailor…

Ukraine Conflict: Global Implications for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, 06. Mai 2022

Amid diverging international perspectives on Russia’s war on Ukraine, one purpose of the MGG network is to create and hold open spaces of dialogue on international cooperation and sustainable development. The conference takes place on the occasion of the national network meeting of MGG in Mexico 2022. It serves the purpose of connecting…

Greening economies in partner countries

Bonn, 09. November 2023

Smart industrial policy anticipates the shift to a green economy; it guides and promotes the domestic economy so that it can take advantage of the opportunities offered by this structural change early on. At the same time, it is increasingly evident that the sustainability transition must be just to be acceptable and, thus, feasible.…

Werkstattgespräche Wasser

Werkstattgespräche Wasser Downloads Programme_Dialogue_on_water_October_2009.pdf German_Development_Institute_Sixth_Dialogue_on_Water_01_Scheumann.pdf German_Development_Institute_Sixth_Dialogue_on_Water_02_O_Leary.pdf German_Development_Institute_Sixth_Dialogue_on_Water_03_Seeger.pdf German_Development_Institute_Sixth_Dialogue_on_Water_04_Scheumann.pdf German_Development_Institute_Sixth_Dialogue_on_Water_05_Brazil_da_Costa.pdf…

Adapting Governance and Infrastructure for Water Resilience

Bonn, 23. Mai 2023

Climate change causes an increase in extreme weather events in many countries of the world. This has drastic impacts for instance on food security, infrastructure and health, and challenges the very basis of human development. Many countries are experiencing such challenges for a long time, but events such as the 2021 floods in Germany’s…

Governing international science, technology, and innovation co-operation for sustainable development

Rio de Janeiro, 15. Juni 2012

Since 2008, an international expert group has been working under the guidance of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy on the question of how international co-operation in science, technology and innovation (STI) can be better organized to achieve faster and more effective knowledge-based responses to the challenges…

Application Deadline expired: Job advertisment: student / research assistant (f/m/diverse) “Civil Society and Civic Space in Asia”

To strengthen our project “Civil Society and Civic Space in Asia”, we are looking with an immediate starting date and limited until 31.08.2025 student / research assistant

Challenges to Democratisation and Peace-Building in Africa

Duisburg, 12. Dezember 2014

The goal of the workshop was to examine issues of democratisation, development, international intervention and peace-building in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. It drew on the premises that despite its specificities, the crisis in Mali raises issues and debates common to other post-colonial societies. The workshop therefore aimed at…

European Development Policy under the von der Leyen Commission

Berlin, 19. Dezember 2019

The beginning of this month saw the start of the new European Commission under the leadership of President Ursula von der Leyen. Together with her team of Vice Presidents and Commissioners she will promote European cooperation and integration during the next five years under the motto: A Union that Strives for More. President Ursula von…