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Media support needs a tech upgrade before it’s too late

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Dr. Semuhi Sinanoglu argues that AI can transform media development programming by enabling smarter early warning systems to protect journalists, especially against fast-moving threats.

Global development needs a Plan B: could this be it?

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Len Ishmael (2025)
Externe Publikationen

As powerful nations turn inwards and multilateral institutions falter, alternative coalitions need to step into the breach to push for global progress. Such flexible and diverse groupings will be most effective if they are based around issues and deploy new tactics to seize every chance to shape international norms. Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner explain the concept of ‘like-minded internationalism’.

Women, gender fluidity and Shona kinship structure in Zimbabwe

Jaji, Rose (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Using a panel of 100 developing countries from 1990 to 2017, we find robust evidence that improvements in public expenditure efficiency significantly increase FDI inflows. This effect is complementary to institutional quality, per capita income, and binding fiscal frameworks such as fiscal rules.

Training for Transformation

Hamburg, 02. Juni 2025

The MGG Training and Learning Side Event to the Hamburg Sustainability Conference focused on multi-stakeholder processes. The Hamburg Sustainability Conference challenged barriers to SDG implementation with a systemic approach. It was driven by the vision that reaching the SDGs requires interdisciplinary and trustful collaboration among…

Rebuilding legitimacy for Global Governance: the case for a new independent commission

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Arief Anshory Yusuf (2025)
Externe Publikationen

UN at 80 needs a new approach to reforming the UN development system

Baumann, Max-Otto (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Toward a universal approach to financing for sustainable development: what Seville can deliver

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Revisiting Diversity in Leadership Programmes

Online, 12. Juni 2025

As part of the Science Dialogue Day series, the virtual session on June 12th continues the exchange among leadership academies in North Rhine-Westphalia as initiated in 2024 . Building on the discussions from the 1 st Science Dialogue Day, which focused on strategies for diversity and inclusion in leadership programmes, this virtual…

Advancing Climate and Health Resilience

Bonn, 17. Juni 2025

In the margins of the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB62), the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Save the Children will host a roundtable discussion. The event will explore practical strategies to…

The Road to COP30

Bonn and online, 18. Juni 2025

On the occasion of SB62, an event of the Task Force on Linking Adaptive Social Protection and Climate Financing will bring together Parties, climate and social protection experts, multilateral climate funds and CSOs to advance key initiatives that place people-centered climate action at the forefront. It will present latest joint efforts…

Opportunities in regional and global spaces

Johannesburg, 18. Juni 2025

Session in OTT Conference, “Think Tanks + Impact: Challenging our Understanding of Influence” Policy impact is hard to plan for and measure in the national context of a think tank; it often is an ambiguous process without clear notions of ‘causal relations’. This challenge redoubles when we look at operations in (international) networks…

Currency is a social contract and should not be hastily replaced (in arabic)

Abedtalas, Musallam (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Rebuilding legitimacy for Global Governance: the case for a new independent commission

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel / Arief Anshory Yusuf (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Institutionalizing Energy Innovations Towards Low-carbon Transformations? – Lessons from the Global South

Bonn, 25. Juni 2025

Background & Objectives States and non-state actors have pledged countless commitments to tackle climate change. They initiated projects, programs, and innovative approaches to demonstrate what is feasible and necessary to mitigate climate change. Yet, many of these projects struggle to survive and often remain locked-in their niches…

No “Nice-to-Have”: European support to critical civil society and free media

Lorch, Jasmin (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Jasmin Lorch argues that European support to human rights NGOs, critical civil society and free media is not merely a “nice-to-have“. Instead, it directly serves European interests due to the important information function that these civil society actors perform.

Corporate Social Responsibility imperatives in the Moroccan textile-clothing sector: the ways of implementation and impact on local value chains

Benabdeljlil, Nadia / Lamia Kerzazi (2025)
Discussion Paper 18/2025

Do CSR standards spread to downstream local manufacturers? The authors of this Discussion Paper conduct surveys with the different stakeholders in the Moroccan textile value chain to answer this question.

Tax Expenditure Country Report: Morocco

Mourji, Fouzi (2025)
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Book launch event “Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic”

Online (Zoom), 26. Juni 2025

We are delighted to announce the publication of our open access book “ Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic ”. Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnational cooperation in the region. It examines to what extent there is…

Bottom-up or top-down?

Bonn, 26. Juni 2025

Policy coherence is widely seen as a critical tool for countries to advance their climate and sustainable development commitments. Recent research has shown that the consequences from effective policy coherence efforts tend to deliver broader societal benefits and inequality reduction; while, in contrast, incoherent policymaking not only…

Four futures for a Global development cooperation system in flux: policy at the intersection of geopolitics, norm contestation and institutional shift

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Policy Brief 11/2025

This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.