Delespesse, Elise / Charles Martin-Shields (2025) Policy Brief 12/2025
Morocco has shifted from being primarily a country of transit and emigration to a country of settlement. Interviews conducted with NGOs and CSOs working with urban migrants in Casablanca highlighted ways that development cooperation can have a positive impact on social cohesion urban contexts.
Bonn, 18. Juli 2025
With the UN80 initiative, the UN development system once again goes through a repositioning exercise. In the past, similar reform processes have tended to follow a narrow path defined by old recipes and a reluctance to confront major dysfunction. There is now a need to take a fresh look at UN development cooperation. For two reasons:…
Lambin, Roosa / Arsène Brice Bado (2025) Discussion Paper 19/2025
How do colonial legacies, external policy agendas, and domestic ambition shape social protection in Francophone West Africa? This new case study on Côte d’Ivoire explores how external and domestic forces have contributed to social protection formation both historically and today.
Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025) Externe Publikationen
Walle, Yabibal / Kathrin Berensmann / Clara Brandi (2025) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 30. Juni 2025
Deutschland und die EU sollten ihren Worten Taten folgen lassen – durch Umsetzungsstrategien und Führung in der Sevilla Platform for Action.
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.
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.
El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 24. Juni 2025
Deutschland sollte, anstatt völkerrechtswidrige Handlungen stillschweigend zu billigen, die Waffenverkäufe beenden, die laufende Kriege befeuern.
Special "Meeres- und Polarregionen in der inter- und transnationalen Zusammenarbeit": Die Forschung des IDOS identifiziert Zielkonflikte, macht Reform- und Anpassungsbedarf sichtbar und entwickelt Handlungsvorschläge.
Ishmael, Len / Stephan Klingebiel / Andy Sumner (2025) Externe Publikationen
Baumann, Max-Otto (2025) Externe Publikationen
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…
Zintl, Tina (2025) Externe Publikationen
Effert, Sarah-Lea / Sören Hilbrich (2025) Externe Publikationen
Kohlenberger, Judith / Martin-Shields, Charles / Easton-Calabria, Evan (2025) Externe Publikationen
Berlin, 15. Mai 2025
Focus Hosted by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the workshop offers a unique opportunity for a select group of scholars researching bureaucratic politics to discuss work in progress in a collegial Chatham House setting. The workshop’s objective is to explore bureaucratic aversion to criticism across common…
Reichert, Arndt / Anne Simon / Alina Sowa / Christoph Strupat (2025) Externe Publikationen
Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2025) Externe Publikationen
The Trump administration’s actions related to development policy are rooted in the “America First” doctrine. Their approach is not in line with internationally agreed objectives but narrowly aligned with perceived national interests.
Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Alicia Perez-Porro / Anna de las Heras Carles (2025) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 22. April 2025
Zur Bewältigung dieser miteinander verbundenen Krisen braucht es auf allen Ebenen eine evidenzbasierte politische Entscheidungsfindung, was eine Stärkung der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik für Klima und Biodiversität voraussetzt.
