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Welcome to the fortnightly newsletter of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). |
2nd Issue August 2024 Editorial With two new posts, our European Development Policy Outlook blog series is constantly growing, and we’re happy to welcome a new member! Behind the scenes, we are working on our « Decolonising Knowledge for Development » project, from which we hope to share the first stories before the end of the year, and we’re busy recording a new season of our podcast. Apart from that, our spotlight goes on ISS in the Hague today, which has an interesting call and working paper out, and we recommend a new open access book by the Institute of Development Policy in Antwerp. And, as usual, there’s more to discover below. |
From our BlogOverseas Development Aid in Ireland – How Does it Compare to other EU Countries and What Can We Expect for the Future? »Ireland’s overseas development aid programme is, and always has been, a little different from fellow long-term EU members and neighbouring countries », writes Pieternella Pieterse in her contribution to our European Development Policy Outlook series: » As a country that was long colonised, not colonising, Ireland’s development aid programme started from a place of empathy and solidarity, with an acute sense of having experienced a population decimating famine 150 years earlier. » Read more Danish Development Cooperation Caught between Old Tropes and New Realities »All in all, Danish development cooperation is increasingly characterized by a fragmentation of priorities and interventions, covering an immense expanse of ground, and governed increasingly by both a recentralization and a growing set of projectized logics », writes Adam Moe Fejerskov. « This risks a continuous pursuit of isolated interventions as opposed to providing strategic stringency and direction for a deeper and more lasting impact » Read moreTo the blog overview Welcome to the Expert Centre on Emerging EconomiesWe are happy to announce that the Expert Centre on Emerging Economies at Maastricht School of Management (ECEE) has joined the ranks of our members! The seasoned experts at ECEE specialize in inclusive sustainable private sector development and look beyond the usual focus on economic foundation actors by also addressing the societal and environmental foundations vis-a-vis the economic foundation actors. Read more Featured EADI Member: ISSThe International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is an international graduate school of policy-oriented critical social science. It brings together students and teachers from the Global South and the North in a European environment. The institute had hosted our 2021 general conference « Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice« .The call for book chapters and working paper featured below might be of special interest to our community:Call for Book ChaptersGlobal South Researchers in Development Studies: Positionality, Power and VulnerabilityThe book project aims to highlight and bridge the experiences of Global South researchers which are usually concealed or censored for the fear that they would affect academic analytical production. Read more Caring for Earth: Decoloniality and Feminisms in DialogueISS’s latest paper elaborates the concept of Earthcare as an epistemic exercise of academic interdisciplinary dialogue between decoloniality and feminism and as an ethical-political exercise of openness, deep listening and search of new understandings nurtured by the encounter with others outside academia. It defines Earthcare as a way of being and becoming in territory with/on the Earth. Read more… Highlight: Political Chronicles of the Great Lakes RegionThis open access book offers a survey of political developments in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda over the course of 2023. The year has been marked by a dangerous regional extension and internationalisation of the conflict in Eastern DRC. Rwanda has again been actively supporting the M23 rebel group since late 2021, and the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) is operating on its side in North Kivu. Burundi has intervened in support of the Congolese army FARDC, initially as part of the East African force EACRF, and then on a bilateral basis. Read more Thematic Focus: Work Advancing the access of refugees and asylum seekers in Latin America to the labour market: building from the inter-american case-law Direito, Estado e Sociedade – Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Do public works programs foster climate resilience? Conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence Elisabetta Aurino, Francesco Burchi, Tekalign Sakketa, Anastasia Terskaya – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The Impact of Long-Term Finance on Job Quality, Investments and Firm Performance: Cross-Country Evidence The European Journal of Development Research – European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Labor Displacement in Agriculture: Evidence from Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia Land Economics – Christoph Kubitza, Vijesh V. Krishna, Stephan Klasen, Thomas Kopp, Nunung Nuryartono, Matin Qaim – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Assessing employment and labour market effects of rural infrastructure investments in the Sahel region: Cases of Niger and Côte d‘Ivoire Alkassoum Saadatou Sangare, Tite Ehuitché Beke, Mahamadou Tankari – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Regional resilience and the network structure of inter-industry labour flows Regional Studies – Zoltán Elekes, Gergő Tóth &Rikard Eriksson – Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERSPremium Members Publication Picks Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post-neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador GEO: Geography and Environment – Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Inclusive Innovation for Global Development: the Role of Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) Ecosystems Theo Papaioannou, Les Levidow, Zuhre Aksoy – The Centre for the Study of Global Development, Open University (CSGD & OU) Diversity and heterogeneity of smallholder vegetable farming systems and their impact on food security and income in Malawi Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems – Wisdom Madede Nzima, Ryan H. L. Ip, Muhammad Azher Bhatti et al. – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Does the Paris Agreement’s Pledge-And-Review Process Ratchet Up Climate Ambition? A Peer Group Spatial Analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions Hermine Van Coppenolle – Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS – UGent) Do governments crowd out governments? Evidence from a natural experiment European Economic Review – Stuart Baumann, Margaryta Klymak – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Exploring the influence of power on the governance of climate im/mobility in Accra and Dakar Susan S. Ekoh – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Stepping up action on simplified trade regimes for a more inclusive AfCFTA and common African market Philomena Apiko, Bruce Byiers – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) The Morality of Schooling: Women’s Education as an Arena for Social Tension in Cabo Delgado Kronos – Carmeliza Rosario – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) The Drivers and Dynamics of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Kathmandu’s Adult Entertainment Sector: A Synthesis of Five Years of Research by Children, Business Owners, NGOs, and Academics E. Hacker et al. – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members Roundtable report: Epidemic preparedness and response in Senegal K. Sow, M. Boyon – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Taxing Mobile Money in Africa: Risk and Reward Martin Hearson, Philip Mader, Mary Abounabhan et al. – Institute of Development Studies (IDS)Picks from International Partner Networks Call for contributions: Virtual Encyclopedia on Peace and Conflict Studies Deadline: 26 August 2024 – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO IPCC call for authors and editors for the “Special Report on Climate Change and Cities” Deadline: 16 September – International Science Council ISC Science at risk: a race against time to protect seeds and science in Sudan Riley Sparks – International Science Council ISC Convivialidades políticas y sociales en la pospandemia Juan Ignacio Piovani and Gloria Chicote (coords.) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO |
Read more about EADI Partners |
Trainings Open access online courses on water and water management IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) See more courses and trainings on the EADI website Opinions Gen Z are ready to help build a new future for Bangladesh Sohela Nazneen – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) How artisanal fishers across the world are trying to turn the tide by adapting to climate and anthropogenic change Ilaha Abasli, Nina Swen, Oane Visser – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) From billions to trillions – can the international financing for development system deliver this? Betty N. Wainaina – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Maternal Education as a Key Determinant of Student Academic Achievement in Pakistani Schools Aisha Naz Ansari, Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta, Sohail Ahmad – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Development of the Knowledge-Based Economy in Iran Sara Bazoobandi – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Simplifying economic complexity Isaac López-Moreno Flores – Global Development Institute (GDI) Global campaign for a ‘Roof Over Our Heads’ Sheela Patel – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Will AI help us out of the productivity slump? Thabo Huntgeburth – The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London SOAS Calls Call for papers: Local environmental democracy and green transitions, 23-25 October 2024 Deadline: 31 August 2024 – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) See more calls on the EADI Website Jobs Managing Director (F/M/D) Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability (HCGS) Deadline: 30 August 2024 – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) PhD candidate in integrated modelling of floods and droughts Deadline: 31 August 2024 – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) – Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Asia Deadline: 01 September 2024 – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) – Geopolitics and Geo-Economics Deadline: 01 September 2024 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) PhD opportunity in WASH & humanitarian contexts Deadline: 02 September 2024 – HE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Lecturer or Associate Professor in Atmospheric Science Deadline: 22 September 2024 – Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI) See more job offers on the EADI website |