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Evidence-based implementation of the GCR

Maison de la Paix, Graduate Institute, Geneva & Online, 11. Dezember 2023

This workshop aimed to facilitate exchange among researchers on common issues related to the role of academic research in advancing the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR).​ A number of researchers and academic networks were present in Geneva to participate in the Global Refugee Forum (GRF), 13 to 15 December 2023.…

Africa’s future will be decided in its cities

Roll, Michael (2023)
Externe Publikationen

Africa is urbanising at an unprecedented pace and scale. Despite all the challenges, urbanisation represents a unique opportunity for the structural transformation and development of the continent – if the right measures are taken and supported in time, writes Michael Roll (IDOS).

Scaling up green investment in the Global South: strengthening domestic financial resource mobilisation and attracting patient International capital

Volz, Ulrich / Yuen Lo / Vaibhav Mishra (2024)
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The gendered nature of poverty: data, evidence and policy recommendations

Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba (2023)
Policy Brief 24/2023

To what extent is poverty gendered? IDOS research shows that women make up 54%-63% of the population in multidimensional poverty and that female poverty is 70% higher than male poverty. The Policy Brief discusses the role of social protection, labour and care policies in tackling gendered poverty.

Pandemic prevention: a planetary health perspective

Berlin, 01. Dezember 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an enormous socio-economic and ecological impact. In the post-pandemic phase there is much discussion what policy actions are required at several governance levels to prevent, prepare and respond (PPR) to future pandemics. An international pandemic accord, under negotiation at the World Health…

The BEPS Project: achievements and remaining challenges

Laudage Teles, Sabine (2023)
Policy Brief 22/2023

The OECD/G20’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project aims to reduce harmful tax avoidance. This policy brief evaluates the achievements and remaining challenges of the BEPS project to mobilise more domestic revenues, in particular in low- and middle-income countries.

A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility

Oakes, Robert / Kees Van der Geest / Benjamin Schraven et al. (2023)
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The implementation of sustainable finance taxonomies: learning from South African experiences

Lötters-Viehof, Steffen / Sören Hilbrich / Kathrin Berensmann / Giovanna Artmann / Sam Ashman / Theresa Herbold / Agnese Monti / Felix Paffhausen / Stephanie Roigk / Lee-Ann Steenkamp (2023)
Policy Brief 20/2023

Embracing sustainable finance taxonomies – potential to facilitate investments in sustainable economic activities. This Policy Brief presents recommendations for a successful introduction of sustainable taxonomies based on research conducted in South Africa.

Comparing Aid Agencies’ Bureaucratic Politics and Practices

Paris, 30. November 2023

The workshop offered the unique opportunity for a select group of scholars researching bureaucratic politics and practices of aid agencies to develop comparative perspectives on development effectiveness. We discussed empirically grounded and comparative work that takes either bureaucrats or aid agencies as their main unit of analysis and…

IDOS@COP28

Dubai, 30. November 2023

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will take place from November 30 to December 12, would be decisive to advance multilateral responses to the climate crisis. IDOS will be active as an observer organisation. We will showcase our research findings at events and analyse progress made on…

INTERFACES Colloquium Series #4

Online, 30. November 2023

The fourth lecture in the INTERFACES colloquium series on “Sustainable land management in sub‐Saharan Africa: Improving livelihoods through local research” was on 30 November 2023 by Juliane Wiesenhütter and Nina Bisom, from GIZ on “United for Land – Partners, networks and contributions from a German perspective” . They introduced the…

China's footprint in Africa

Cissé, Daouda / Karoline Eickhoff / Julia Fath / Christine Hackenesch / Rainer Thiele (2023)
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Global Shifts in a Changing World Economy

Online, 28. November 2023

In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a new geography of trade and consumption in the agricultural sector. The processes of twenty-first-century globalization are fundamentally changing the politics and governance of agricultural supply chains, with profound implications for the environment and…

Urbanisation and social cohesion: theory and empirical evidence from Africa

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu (2023)
Discussion Paper 16/2023

Combining a national panel data set on social cohesion from Afrobarometer with urbanisation and other socioeconomic data from world development indicators, the study shows that urbanisation is negatively correlated with the social cohesion.

Civil society between repression and cooptation: adjusting to shrinking space in Cambodia

Lorch, Jasmin (2023)
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Hopes and dreams: youth activities in civil society organizations in post-conflict countries

Ruppel, Samantha / Lucas Steinbach (2023)
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Promoting and Protecting Democracy in Times of De-Democratization

Bonn, 16. November 2023

Since the 1990s, external democracy promotion and protection has become a prominent tool of bi- and multilateral donors, as well as international and civil society organizations to promote and protect democracy in aid-recipient countries. However, democracy itself as well as promoters and supporters of democracy are challenged by a…

The emerging global challenge of data authoritarianism

Bonn, 16. November 2023

With the rise of digital economies and digital innovations, issues surrounding data are becoming increasingly important in public debates around the world. While new challenges have emerged regarding data misuses in the past years, the political, legal and multilateral responses have been lagging, partly due to the complexity of these new…

Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? The case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan

Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2023)
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The future of climate and development finance: balancing separate accounting with integrated policy responses

Koch, Svea / Mariya Aleksandrova (2023)
Policy Brief 19/2023

This paper discusses the blurring of development and climate finance and argues that the NCQG process and the integration of loss and damage into the climate finance system must go hand in hand with a separation of ODA and climate finance whilst ensuring integrated policy responses.