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⏰Coming up soon ▶️ Living Heritage: Safeguarding the Past, Designing the Future" Series: Goals on the Ground: Localizing the SDGs across Jordan and Tunisia 📆 05 November ⏰15:00 CET 💻online www.eadi.org/news-2/livin...

In our next seminar with the Institute for International Economic Policy, Rakesh Mishra and Lhachi Selden will present OPHI and UNDP's newly released global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2026. 📅 3pm BST / 11am ET 📍 Oxford & online Find out more: bit.ly/29OctSeminar

🇺🇦 Ukraine is the only EU candidate run on three tracks at once: the €50bn Ukraine Facility, accession talks, and security and defence. The Commission's 'Preparing for a wider Union' package only partly addresses what that means for Ukraine's accession.

✏️ We've got another blog post out! The authors (@rielcano.bsky.social, @fundacionetea.bsky.social) argue that the Financing for development (FfD) agenda is reshaped by interconnected transformations. www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2718

⚡ Commission guidance restricts EU funds for energy projects that use inverters from high-risk suppliers like China. But a rushed shift towards mandatory European content could be counterproductive.

🌍 How can environmental and urban data support better decisions for sustainable cities? 🎬 Watch the recording of our latest #VirtualDialogues session on SDG localization across Jordan and Tunisia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUOw... #EADI #DevelopmentStudies #SDGLocalization #SustainableCities

📌 Have you registered yet? Join EADI's Virtual Dialogue: “Living Heritage: Safeguarding the Past, Designing the Future”. 📅 5 Nov | ⏰ 15:00 CET | 💻 Online 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EADI #SDGs #CulturalHeritage

I argue that any radical decolonization agenda must be aligned with critique of and resistance to contemporary oppression. I also posit that the most dominant form of decolonial theory (...) does not lend itself to such radical critique and resistance. 🔎 From our blog

📢 Save the date: Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Navigating an Epoch of Crisis (3) 📅 11 November 2026 ⏰ 16:00 CET 💻 Online 🎙️Speakers: @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social (@gvagrad.bsky.social), @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social (@ids.ac.uk) and others 🔗 Register: www.eadi.org/news-2/virtu...

📢 Call for Papers: How are ideas debated, contested, and circulated in contemporary #China? We invite submissions of original, empirically grounded papers for the workshop “Contested Ideas: Knowledge, Publics, and Political Debate in Contemporary China" by 30 Nov: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/con...

"Every consortium must reckon, one way or another, with how it structures partnerships, sets its agenda, distributes power and resources, owns knowledge, and navigates accountability to its partners, its funders, and the people its work is meant to benefit."

GDP alone cannot show the full picture of sustainable development: we need more & better data to measure progress. This is the call of the London Declaration, signed by leading academics, statisticians, policymakers & experts from international agencies. Find out more: ophi.org.uk/news/experts...

Drawing on survey data from 38 countries, the latest flagship report of #Afrobarometer challenges Western assumptions about alignment in an increasingly multipolar world. At a #GIGATalk, experts analysed the report’s findings. ➡️ Their key takeaways: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/gi...

What do you think?

What drives the rise of the far right in #Brazil and the Americas? And what can Europe learn from these developments? This week, scholars came together at the #GIGA for a workshop to discuss this timely matter. Thank you for the fruitful exchange! ➡️ More: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/the...

How can civil servants drive transformative change? In their contribution to the IDOS Flagship Report “Sustainable Futures at Risk?”, Joao Vitor Domingues, @grimmsven.bsky.social & Zahrina Tamimi explore how dialogue-based training can foster joint learning. www.idos-research.de/en/publicati...

Read our latest Research Bulletin, you'll find the latest publications, projects won by our researchers, events and news about our research. https://graduateinstitute.pulse.ly/tzmfmo48mo

The UK government wants to shift ties with the global South from an aid-defined hierarchy to genuine partnership. How can this happen in practice beyond rhetoric? New research from @kings-sga.bsky.social on forging partnerships through horizontal cooperation: buff.ly/BAT2EBC

"Every consortium must reckon, one way or another, with how it structures partnerships, sets its agenda, distributes power and resources, owns knowledge, and navigates accountability to its partners, its funders, and the people its work is meant to benefit."

📆 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 | Join us on 27 October for a dialogue on green industrialisation in Morocco, Egypt and Türkiye, and what it means for EU–Mediterranean cooperation on renewable energy, green industry and clean tech. Register 👉 ecdpm.org/events/pathw...

Wars have become #️⃣-wars that extend beyond the battlefield. @rhyscrilley.bsky.social @warmatters.bsky.social Stein Tønnesson toda.org and Eva Johais cmi.no share their perspectives on warfare, mediatisation and the global ecologies of the wars in Myanmar and Ukraine ➡️ Thur 29 Oct ⏰ 14:00 📍 here/zoom

Rural areas are home to 83.3% of people living in multidimensional poverty. The share of deprivations faced in rural areas is also higher: the overall MPI value is over 4 times higher in rural than in urban areas. Find out more in the global MPI 2026: ophi.org.uk/global-mpi/2...

📣New IOB working Paper by Albert Malukisa Nkuku: "Capture de l’État et de la société civile, «rando» et instabilité politique chronique en République démocratique du Congo" medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/c... #DRCongo, #RDCongo

📣Attention early career researchers Join @kings-sga.bsky.social for this symposium: "Staying Focused on International Development" 📅 19 November 2026, ⏰ apply by 06 November! 🎙️ Platform for ecrs to present their work! 💰 £500 Prize for the best speech! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...

✍ "While many discussions of “equitable partnership” are valuable, they often remain aspirational and fail to generate concrete action on the deeper structural barriers to equity", writes @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social (@ids.ac.uk) on our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2710

The humanitarian system doesn’t need to “empower” local communities. It needs to enable them. Myriam Castaneda Solares, @bondngo.bsky.social buff.ly/2Nk2yRJ

🎞️ New video by @postcolh.bsky.social! “Peace and Conflict in Postcolonial Africa” foregrounds the perspectives of #African scholars and practitioners and the diversity of approaches to understanding #conflict in different African contexts. Watch it here: youtu.be/YqoDpFnUfk0?...

📢Call for Applications now open! The call for applications for the 2027 Sanctuary for Health Justice fellowship is now open. The fellowship will run from 19 March – 23 July 2027 and will be situated at IDS, in Brighton, UK. Full details: https://ids.pulse.ly/dtglimksrn

Is environmental multilateralism collapsing? Not so fast. In their IDOS Flagship Report chapter, Steffen Bauer, Niklas Wagner & Ines Dombrowsky argue: disruption can drive reform. The EU and other middle powers should improve coordination across the Rio Conventions. #COP31 #CBDCOP17

"While academics and commentators have long foretold the onset of deep sea mining (..), there is a growing sense that intensifying US-China geopolitics combined with promotion by some Pacific Islands Countries might drive deep sea mining to commercial exploitation before the decade is out."

Call for chapters: The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Development which I'm co-editing with Mihika Chatterjee and Mathilde Maitrot. Esp keen to hear from ECRs, S Asia-based scholars. Deadline: 5 June 2026. Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share.

📸 International public finance for Ukraine's reconstruction is at $200bn and rising, and is shaping who will own its productive assets. Yesterday we hosted a closed-door roundtable on mobilising private capital and what it means for EU accession.

Join us on 3 November where Nick Wolterman, Senior Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury, will be delivering a short, in-person presentation on how to pitch a book idea to a publisher. Find out more and book here: www.york.ac.uk/igdc/events/...

Last chance to register!

⏰⏰⏰ Today, register now!

"The tensions between Trump and Zelenskiy begin to seem existential. The Iran fiasco’s impact on the United States is now genuinely threatening the Ukraine and Europe." Read Professor Cyrus Schayegh's analysis: https://substack.pulse.ly/i4uwfoyawp

📖 𝘕𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪 📱 𝗧𝗮𝘅 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 — Alou Adessé Dama & Grégoire Rota-Graziosi 👉 ferdi.fr/publications...

📣 Coming up next week: Development Dialogues – DSAI & EADI @eadi.bsky.social Join us on 29 October for a public lecture and panel event on European Development Cooperation and crisis readiness. Keynotes: Mr Barry Andrews, MEP & Dr Sinead Walsh 🔗 Registration: www.dsaireland.org/updates/even...

Where do we find hope in development today? At #DSA2027, we’re seeking panels on Global South leadership, climate politics, youth movements, and solidarity struggles. 💡 Panels outside the main theme or linked to DSA Study Groups are welcome! Propose by 5 Nov: buff.ly/66RBY44

"Hope, Despair, and Life Outcomes: Lessons from the New Science of Wellbeing". Carol Graham, Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Professor at the University of Maryland delivered the Opening Lecture of the Academic Year at the Institute: shorturl.at/sTz6i

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"If we believe that equity in research is not simply a “nice to have”, but essential to quality in all its many aspects, then reflecting on our own practices in partnerships, as well as those of others, is really important."

Progress in poverty reduction looks different across contexts. This is why the 4x3 poverty measurement framework set out in our new report proposes 3 complementary methods for analysing changes in poverty over time. Find out more below⬇️ Full report: bit.ly/LinesOfSight

🤝 The AU Assembly has instructed the AfCFTA Council of Ministers to negotiate an industrial policy protocol. A new AfRI Practice Hub brief argues its success will depend less on the ambition of the text than on the preparatory work before drafting.

Perceptions of #China vary regionally, and the factors influencing them are often unknown. Join us on 28 October for a talk by Julie Yu-Wen Chen, who examines what it takes to keep China studies global. Moderated by Esther Song. ➡️ Register now: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co... #GIGAChinaSeries

🎙️ @philipproudfoot.bsky.social, Research Fellow at @ids.ac.uk, was a guest on The New Humanitarian podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism: Should humanitarianism return to its activist roots? 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/J1yMGQR