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Addressing the global water crisis in a challenging political environment

Online, 10. März 2025

Too little, too much, too dirty – water challenges in virtually all countries are increasing with climate change and due to overuse and lacking treatment of the precious resource. Global and local changes in water flows could “(…) increasingly lead to threatening situations that are beyond the spectrum of human experience and could…

Local feminist perspectives as transformative levers: women’s health and climate action in India

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.

Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for greater gender equality: synthesis study

Götze, Jacqueline / Stephan Klingebiel / Maryam Khalid (2025)
Discussion Paper 9/2025

Local feminist perspectives have the potential to act as transformation levers for greater gender equality by producing context-specific alternative approaches to development processes that address prevailing gender norms and practices.

Colonial continuities in the area of social protection

Online, 12. März 2025

Online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into French / Discussion en ligne en anglais avec traduction simultanée en français Across low and middle-income countries, many policy fields continue to be shaped by the effects of colonialism and post-colonialism. This is particularly true for social protection. Some of today’s…

Trade Policy in Turbulent Times: Perspectives from the Global South

Online, 13. März 2025

In light of the recent political developments, particularly the new term of President Trump and his approach to trade policy, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS ) in cooperation with the G20 Trade and Investment Research Network (TIRN) organized a high-level expert roundtable to explore the future of global…

Transforming aid-funded renewable energy systems: a case study of policy-driven financial sustainability in rural Bangladesh

Yi, HyunAh / Kyung Nam Kim (2025)
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Lieferketten nachhaltig gestalten

Special „Lieferketten nachhaltig gestalten”: Forschung über Lieferketten hilft, die Chancen für Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern zu erkennen.

How to deal with the current debt crisis of developing countries?

Zattler, Jürgen (2025)
Discussion Paper 11/2025

This paper presents a practical and coherent approach to address the current debt crisis which focuses as far as possible on incentives for debtor countries and private creditors.

Preparing the international development job market for the future

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…

The Changing Landscape of Sustainability Governance. What next for VSS?

Bonn, 31. März 2025

The UNFSS Academic Advisory Council (AAC) annual meeting brought together an international mix of academic and policy experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to consolidate the knowledge on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and contribute to a comprehensive understanding of VSS effectiveness. The global sustainability…

Financing for development: from Monterrey to Seville

Klingebiel, Stephan / Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda / Kathrin Berensmann (eds.) (2025)
Discussion Paper 12/2025

The UN Financing for Development (FfD) process, including the Fourth FfD Conference (FfD4) in Seville in 2025, is key to fostering global cooperation in the context of current geopolitical tensions and multiple crises. This paper provides meaningful input for FfD4 by exploring innovative approaches.

How the FfD process should promote a better alignment of financial markets with sustainability goals

Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann / Clara Brandi (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Die Zukunft des Welthandels

Special "Zukunft des Welthandelssystems": Vor dem Hintergrund einer Phase des Umbruchs und der Unsicherheit beschäftigen sich die HandelsexpertInnen am IDOS mit der Wirksamkeit, Legitimität und Nachhaltigkeit des internationalen Handelssystems.

Germany's new government

Online, 16. April 2025

The coalition agreement for a new German government is now in place. How does a future CDU/CSU and SPD government wants to rethink and organise its relations with actors in the Global South and German development policy? IDOS experts provided first assessments with regard to Germany's foreign policies in a virtual press briefing on…

Wissenskooperation

Forscher*innen am IDOS untersuchen die Rolle von transnationalen Wissensakteuren und Wissensgemeinschaften bei der Erforschung und der Gestaltung des globalen Wandels.

Application Deadline expired! Job Advertisement: Senior Researcher (f/m/diverse) “Transformation of political (dis-)order”

IDOS Research Department “Transformation of political (dis-)order” is looking for a Senior Researcher (f/m/diverse)

The End of the International Order as we know it

Online, 08. Mai 2025

The second Trump administration is shaking up the international order. Within little more than three months, the US has withdrawn from international UN entities, has frozen international aid, has imposed tariffs and escalated trade wars. How are the current changes in the international order perceived in different countries? What are the…

Green economic policy and development research: lessons for the future

Bonn, 09. Mai 2025

This workshop mainly consisted of three panels: What is good green economic policy? Our economies must become greener: decarbonised, less material-intensive, circular. However, green alternatives often lack cost-competitiveness where environmental costs are externalised. Willingness to pay for the environment is declining, as people…

Political inequality and impacts on climate mitigation: the case of Germany's energy sector

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Ines Dombrowsky (2025)
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Financing South Africa's energy transition: making the just aspects count more

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.