Ohemeng, Fidelia N. A. / Deda Ogum / Deborah Tayo Akakpo / Dorcas Coker-Appiah (2025) Discussion Paper 6/2025
Local feminist perspectives from Ghana highlight significant strides toward gender equality, showcasing advocacy, coalition-building, and collaboration as key strategies to drive gender-transformative policies and sustainable development.
Strelnyk, Olena / Liudmyla Yuzva / Tamara Zlobina (2025) Discussion Paper 7/2025
Local feminist perspectives from Ukraine underscore the persistence of gender-transformative policies during the defensive war, revealing the impact of feminist action on social change, along with its successes, challenges, and limitations in shaping sustainable feminist policies.
Sengupta, Sreerupa / Divya Singhal / Ananya Chakraborty (2025) Discussion Paper 8/2025
Local feminist perspectives from India offer a transformative lens for addressing systemic inequalities in health and climate action, centering on the need for intersectional, community-led and collaborative approaches.
Zintl, Tina / Markus Loewe (2025) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 17. März 2025
Es ist beim Wiederaufbau kriegszerstörter Länder gleichermaßen wichtig, das soziale Gefüge, sozusagen die ‚Software‘ des Landes, wie auch die gebaute Infrastruktur, also seine ‚Hardware‘, wiederherzustellen.
Special „Lieferketten nachhaltig gestalten”: Forschung über Lieferketten hilft, die Chancen für Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern zu erkennen.
Berlin, 19. März 2025
For this synthesis conference, planned as a one-day event, we aimed to offer a mix of formats that facilitate discussions on feminisms in different contexts and critical exchanges on the potentials and limits of feminist approaches to development. We recognised the political sensitivities that are linked to questions of gender equality…
Bonn, 24. März 2025
The international development labour market, including in Germany, is undergoing significant changes, especially at the entry level. The sector is facing significant pressure, both financially and due to the current political and public discourse. Moreover, the current international system is marked by global power shifts and systemic…
Walle, Yabibal (2025) Mitarbeiter sonstige
Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2025) Policy Brief 7/2025
International organisations often refer to social contracts. A concept developed by IDOS helps to fill the term with contents. It shows that international organisations can support the renegotiation of national social contracts and establish supra-national social contracts.
Li, Hangwei / Wang Yuan (2025) Externe Publikationen
IDOS Research Department “Transformation of political (dis-)order” is looking for a Senior Researcher (f/m/diverse)
To support our team, we are looking for an intern (f/m/diverse) to assist in the preparation and implementation of the MGG Academy for a period of three months, starting 18 August 2025.
Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes / Charlotte Gehrke (2025) Externe Publikationen
Reichert, Arndt / Anne Simon / Alina Sowa / Christoph Strupat (2025) Externe Publikationen
Tamasiga, Phemelo / Youba Sokona (2025) Externe Publikationen
South Africa’s shift from coal to clean energy is not just about megawatts but also about people. With coal jobs at stake—many in Mpumalanga’s mining communities—the transition must put affected workers and communities first, so no one is left behind.
The Research Department “Transformation of Political (Dis-)order” at IDOS offers two (2) short-term visiting scholar positions of 3-6 weeks between August and December 2025.
Susan S. Ekoh / Charles Martin-Shields / Carolin Kitzmann / Nina Küssau / Mario Pfeffer / Merle Platen / Theresa Reinel / Mary Boatemaa Setrana / Johnson Wilson Appiah Kubi / Stella Effah (2025) Discussion Paper 15/2025
The impacts of climate change are leading to forced displacement of populations to cities. This Discussion Paper explores how climate and environmental related displacements affect social cohesion in the city of Accra, Ghana, and offers recommendations for how to respond to these challenges.
Zintl, Tina (2025) Externe Publikationen
Bonn, 26. Mai 2025
Our Postgraduate Programme for Sustainability Cooperation (PGP) enhances the competence of master’s graduates aspiring a career in international cooperation for development and sustainability. Participants work in three different teams on an empirically based, policy-oriented research project. In the final presentations, the participants…
Online, 12. Juni 2025
As part of the Science Dialogue Day series, the virtual session on June 12th continued 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…
