Sustainable Futures

Kategorie: Research and policy advice

  • Imme Scholz at council meeting of Foundation Environment and Development

     

    Council of the Foundation Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia
    © Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung

    Imme Scholz, Acting Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), took part in the council meeting of the Foundation Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia on 6 June. The government of North Rhine-Westphalia created the foundation in 2001 with to promote civil society engagement for sustainable development. Projects range from environmental education and fair trade to global and intercultural learning.

    The Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, is Chair of the foundation’s council.

  • Certification as family-conscious institute: audit berufundfamilie

    Workandfamily Certificate Awards 2019 Berlin, © berufundfamilie, Thomas Ruddies, Christoph Petras

    For the third time, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) received its certification as a family-conscious institute by the audit workandfamily (berufundfamilie). The certificate was handed over to Horst Jobelius, head of general administration at DIE (see picture). The audit workandfamily increases the awareness for the opportunities of balancing work and family life, contributes to a family-friendly culture at DIE and increases the visibility of DIE as an attractive employer.

  • T20 Summit: Supporting the G20 through policy advice, dialogue and research collaboration

    Photo: Panel with DIE-Researcher Ulrich VolzOn 26 and 27 May 2019, researchers from a broad range of countries met in Tokyo, Japan, for the annual T20 Summit. The T20 Summit is the main meeting of the Think20 (T20), a network of research institutes and think tanks from the G20 countries which provide research-based recommendations to the G20. The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) chaired the T20 process together with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in 2017. Supported by the Managing Global Governance programme, DIE initiated the T20 Africa Standing Group together with the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

    Researchers from DIE have co-chaired the Task Force on Cooperation with Africa as well as the Trade, Investment and Globalization Task force and have participated in the production of various T20 Policy Briefs in order to influence the policy process towards the Leaders’ Summit of the G20 on 28 and 29 June in Osaka, Japan.

    At the T20 summit, DIE researchers participated in various panels. Ulrich Volz spoke on a panel on financing for sustainable development, where he highlighted the urgency to mainstream sustainable finance. Since science, technology and innovation are crucial cross-cutting issue in nearly all SDGs, Kathrin Berensmann underlined that the New Technology Bank for LDCs assumes an essential role in promoting capacity building in these countries. Christine Hackenesch moderated a panel on G20 – Africa cooperation in the agriculture sector, one of three thematic panels organized by the T20 Africa Standing Group. Axel Berger argued that the G20 should provide guidance for ongoing investment facilitation discussions for sustainable development from the unilateral to the multilateral level.

    Please visit the G20 Special on the DIE-website or the Future of Globalisation Blog for more information about the our work on G20 / T20.

    In 2017, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), together with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), headed the T20 process. With the support of the Managing Global Governance Programme, DIE initiated the T20 Africa Standing Group with the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

  • Training and Dialogue for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

    Photo of Participants: Padmanabhaiah (IAS Retd.), Palesa Mgaga, Archith Ashok, João Vitor Domingues
    Participants:Padmanabhaiah (IAS Retd.), Palesa Mgaga, Archith Ashok, João Vitor Domingues

    Together with the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), the Managing Global Governance (MGG) programme held the international conference “Training and Dialogue for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda” from 24 to 26 April in Hyderabad, India. Participants discussed the Indian experience of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in an international context. Particular focus was put on the role of the civil service and its training institutions. Plenary, panel and working group sessions dealt with a wide spectrum of related topics, including policy coherence for the SDGs, digital solutions, as well as leadership and train-the-trainer courses. The meeting also served the purpose to further develop the New York Proposal for a Programme of Action for National Schools of Public Administration and partners in the MGG network. The event attracted considerable public and political interest, documented by broad media coverage as well as the contributions of India’s Chief Economic Advisor and the Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog, which is the premier think tank for the Government of India and co-ordinator of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in India. More information can be found here.

  • After Brexit – What will become of Europe‘s foreign and development policy?

    Photo: BrexitThe United Kingdom is one of the four principal actors of European development cooperation. Thus, Brexit will have significant consequences for the future of Europe’s global role. This situation was the backdrop to a panel discussion of the series Bonner Impulse on 27 February, which focused on the future relationship between the UK and the EU in matters of foreign and development policy. The event series, which is co-hosted by German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the umbrella organisation of development and humanitarian aid NGOs in Germany VENRO, regularly invites experts from politics, academia and civil society to discuss sustainable European development policy. That Wednesday evening, around 100 guests did attend the discussion that took place in the auditorium of the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

    Moderated by DIE’s EU expert Christine Hackenesch, the panel featured MP and deputy group chairman of the FDP in the German Bundestag Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Pedro Morazán of the Südwind-Institut and Stefani Weiss of Bertelsmann Stiftung. The focus of their discussion was the state of the Brexit negotiations and the common external interests of the EU and the UK. Numerous audience questions and comments pertaining to the political motivation behind Brexit as well as the pragmatic political consequences of the UK leaving the EU, showed that Brexit is on the minds of Bonn’s citizens. We asked the experts for our video series „Perspectives On“, what they expect to change for Europe‘s foreign and development policy after Brexit.