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  • New awareness for sustainability in public procurement at the Global Revolution Conference in Nottingham

    Lecture Max Müngersdorff
    Lecture by Max Müngersdorff © Tim Stoffel

    From 16 to 18 June, the Public Procurement: Global Revolution IX Conference took place in Nottingham, UK, for the ninth time. Dr Maximilian Müngersdorff and Tim Stoffel, both researcher at DIE, presented their research on sustainable public procurement to an international audience.

    At the conference, tendencies in approaching the topic became visible that have also been shown in the MUPASS research project, conducted together with the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW): Sustainable public procurement is receiving increasing attention by policy makers and practitioners alike. At the same time, there is a shift in how the topic is being approached. Presentations by representatives of international organisations, like OECD, showed that those organisations have already integrated sustainability into their concepts for public procurement and now increasingly focus on implementation and mutual learning, when dealing with the topic. Based on the research at DIE, this was a predictable development: “Legal frameworks worldwide already allow for the consideration of social and ecological aspects in public procurement. The main challenge now is to support actors in implementation”, Tim Stoffel put it.

    The MUPASS project shows that change management within administrations and supporting them with practical implementation is central for the realisation of sustainable procurement practices in municipalities. At the third MUPASS Dialogue Forum, which will take place in October 2019, municipal actors from Germany, Europe, Sub-Sahara Africa, and Latin America come together to learn from each other within a framework of transformative research for sustainable public procurement.

  • Neue Aufmerksamkeit für Nachhaltigkeit in öffentlicher Beschaffung auf der Global Revolution Konferenz in Nottingham

    Lecture Max Müngersdorff
    Vortrag von Max Müngersdorff © Tim Stoffel

    Vom 16. Bis 18. Juni 2019 fand in Nottingham mit 300 Teilnehmenden die Public Procurement: Global Revolution IX Conference zum neunten Mal statt. Dr. Maximilian Müngersdorff und Tim Stoffel, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter am DIE, präsentierten dort ihre Forschung zu nachhaltiger öffentlicher Beschaffung einem internationalen Fachpublikum.

    Auf der Global Revolution bestätigte sich, was auch die Forschung von Müngersdorff und Stoffel im Rahmen des mit der Servicestelle Kommunen in der Einen Welt (SKEW) durchgeführten MUPASS-Projektes zeigt: Nachhaltige öffentliche Beschaffung gewinnt bei politischen Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträgern sowie Praktikerinnen und Praktikern weiter an Bedeutung. Gleichzeitig verlagert sich der Fokus der Politik und der Begleitforschung von den Rahmenbedingungen auf Umsetzungsprozesse und wechselseitige Lernprozesse, wie unter anderem Vertreter der OECD betonten. Auf Grundlage der laufenden Forschung am DIE zu diesem Thema war dies eine absehbare Entwicklung: „Rechtsrahmen ermöglichen weltweit bereits die Einbeziehung von sozialen und ökologischen Aspekten in die öffentliche Auftragsvergabe. Jetzt geht es vor allem darum, Akteure bei der Implementierung zu unterstützen“, sagte Tim Stoffel.

    Das MUPASS-Projekt zeigt, dass verwaltungsinternes Change Management und die Unterstützung bei der praktischen Umsetzung gerade für Kommunen von entscheidender Bedeutung sind. Beim dritten MUPASS-Dialogforum, das im Oktober 2019 stattfindet, werden kommunale Akteure aus Deutschland, Europa, Sub-Sahara Afrika und Lateinamerika zusammenkommen, um im Rahmen transformativer Forschung voneinander und miteinander zu lernen.

  • Imme Scholz at the Center for Advanced Studies of the LMU Munich

    © LMU München

    As part of the lecture series “Global Health”, Dr Imme Scholz provided a keynote titled “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: An Innovative Reference for Global Health?” at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. The lecture given by Dr Scholz concluded the summer term series of the CAS. Previous topics were “Reconfiguring the HIV Pandemic: Power, Politics and Paradigms” (Prof. Lesley Doyal, Bristol), “The Origins of Global Health in the Aftermath of World War One” (Prof. Mark Harrison, Oxford) and “How to Manage Global Health and Are We Getting Better at It?” (Prof. Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh/CAS Fellow).

  • DIE/EADI Book Launch

    On 11 July, the newest publication of the EADI Global Development Series titled “Building Development Studies for the New Millennium” was launched at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Dr Imme Scholz and Dr Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam) had contributed two chapters to this edited volume: “The Relevance of Environmental Research for Development Studies” (Scholz) and “An Inclusive Development Perspective on Development Studies in the Anthropocene” (Gupta). Their presentations and the ensuing debate discussed whether and how teaching and research in development studies need to be refocused considering the extent and speed of environmental change. A video of the event is accessible here:

  • DIE at the Environmental Justice Conference „Transformative Connections“

    Dr Imme Scholz and Dr Steffen Bauer presented their paper “Reflecting on the Right to Development from the perspective of global environmental change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” during the 2019 Environmental Justice Conference “Transformative Connections” at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) on 2 July. Dr Bauer also presented a paper titled “Climate risk and the cost of capital: perverting the polluter pays principle?” which was published together with Dr Clara Brandi and Dr Ulrich Volz.