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24 September 2025

NorDev25: Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability

24-26 September 2025, Ås, Norway
We're proud and happy to be partners at this year's NorDev Conference!
06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

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Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

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29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

24 September 2025

NorDev25: Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability

24-26 September 2025, Ås, Norway
We're proud and happy to be partners at this year's NorDev Conference!
06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

Progra…

29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

24 September 2025

NorDev25: Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability

24-26 September 2025, Ås, Norway
We're proud and happy to be partners at this year's NorDev Conference!
06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

Progra…

29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

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Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

Marine Gauthier - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
A Personal Reckoning with Expertise: My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial sensitivities—an awareness shaped by my Belgian family’s colonial past, my…

Is Postdevelopment a Theory of Development? Situating Postdevelopment in Social Theory

Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Four decades after its beginnings, postdevelopment (PD) has become an established approach in development theory. Its core claim that we should ‘reject the entire paradigm of development’ and look for…

EADI at 50: Thinking Through the Winter, Looking to the Spring and the Next Chapter

Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
We marked EADI’s 50th anniversary with a conference last week. As EADI president I reflect on this jubilee moment drawing from my opening remarks. Anniversaries are an opportunity for both…

Post-Development from the Global South: Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements?

Alba Castellsagué, Sally Matthews - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Are communities in the Global South rejecting the idea of development in favour of radical alternatives rooted in Indigenous concepts and practices? Some commentators, such as the contributors to the…

Rebuilding Legitimacy for Global Governance: The Case for a New Independent Commission

ndy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel, Arief Anshory Yusuf - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals is giving way to geopolitical tensions. The…

Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

Marine Gauthier - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
A Personal Reckoning with Expertise: My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial sensitivities—an awareness shaped by my Belgian family’s colonial past, my…

Is Postdevelopment a Theory of Development? Situating Postdevelopment in Social Theory

Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Four decades after its beginnings, postdevelopment (PD) has become an established approach in development theory. Its core claim that we should ‘reject the entire paradigm of development’ and look for…

EADI at 50: Thinking Through the Winter, Looking to the Spring and the Next Chapter

Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
We marked EADI’s 50th anniversary with a conference last week. As EADI president I reflect on this jubilee moment drawing from my opening remarks. Anniversaries are an opportunity for both…

Post-Development from the Global South: Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements?

Alba Castellsagué, Sally Matthews - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Are communities in the Global South rejecting the idea of development in favour of radical alternatives rooted in Indigenous concepts and practices? Some commentators, such as the contributors to the…

Rebuilding Legitimacy for Global Governance: The Case for a New Independent Commission

ndy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel, Arief Anshory Yusuf - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals is giving way to geopolitical tensions. The…

Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

Marine Gauthier - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
A Personal Reckoning with Expertise: My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial sensitivities—an awareness shaped by my Belgian family’s colonial past, my…

Member Publications

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EADI members

Gender: Crosscutting report

Davis, K et al. - Global Development Institute (GDI)
Across urban African contexts, diverse youth experience specific barriers to accessing livelihoods, which poses significant constraints to exercising their agency. This experience is a context for…

Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) toolkit

Jennifer Steeves Nina Schoonman Anshuman Karol et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework. The SECURe framework is a structured…

(Un)Settling Place. Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara González (eds.) - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
This book recentralizes the 'out-of-the-way' places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. People who are “on the move” often inhabit places that are…

Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change

V. Bye, P. Inglês, A. Orre, J. Pearce, R. Soares de Oliveira (eds.) - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, social, and economic affairs. Just over half of the life of the…

Poverty in Latin America. Feelings/Perceptions vs Material Conditions

Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
This book derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It compares poverty incidence under the…

Towards food policies that support healthy and sustainable consumption - Case studies from 11 European countries highlighting good practices for demand-side policies

Stephanie Wunder, Charlie Brocard et al. - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)
This report gathers analyses of demand-side food policies in 11 European countries. Each case study provides background information on the country’s progress towards better coordinated, thus…

Gender: Crosscutting report

Davis, K et al. - Global Development Institute (GDI)
Across urban African contexts, diverse youth experience specific barriers to accessing livelihoods, which poses significant constraints to exercising their agency. This experience is a context for…

Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) toolkit

Jennifer Steeves Nina Schoonman Anshuman Karol et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework. The SECURe framework is a structured…

(Un)Settling Place. Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara González (eds.) - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
This book recentralizes the 'out-of-the-way' places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. People who are “on the move” often inhabit places that are…

Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change

V. Bye, P. Inglês, A. Orre, J. Pearce, R. Soares de Oliveira (eds.) - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, social, and economic affairs. Just over half of the life of the…

Poverty in Latin America. Feelings/Perceptions vs Material Conditions

Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
This book derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It compares poverty incidence under the…

Towards food policies that support healthy and sustainable consumption - Case studies from 11 European countries highlighting good practices for demand-side policies

Stephanie Wunder, Charlie Brocard et al. - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)
This report gathers analyses of demand-side food policies in 11 European countries. Each case study provides background information on the country’s progress towards better coordinated, thus…

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Doctoral scholarship holder economics and development

Application Deadline: 05 June 2025
Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)
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Senior Research Associate

Applicarion Deadline: 27 June 2025
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)
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Project Curator (Cataloguing Lead)

Application Deadline: 29 June 2025
SOAS University of London SOAS
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Digitisation Lead Conservator

Application Deadline: 29 June 2025
SOAS University of London SOAS
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Digitisation Project Conservation Manager

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SOAS University of London SOAS
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Calls

Call for papers: Special Issue on Mining and the Forest. Journal of Forest Economics

Deadline: 30/06/2025
Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique pour l'Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV)
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Call for Submissions – GDI Conference on “Palestine & Social Justice: Decolonisation and Development Studies”

Deadline : 30 June 2025
Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Call Document: Ireland and Central America Joint Research Initiative

Deadline : 30 June 2025
Development Studies Association Ireland DSAI
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Call for Opinion Pieces - Potential Implications of the Suspension of USAID on Funding for Development Research

No Submission Deadline
Development Studies Association Ireland DSAI
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Call for Papers: 11th Annual Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference: 10 October 2025 - 11 October 2025

Deadline: 30 June 2025
International Security and Development Center gGmbH (ISDC)
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Publications

Coexistence beyond disciplinary silos: Five dimensions of analysis for more convivial human-predator interactions

Biological Conservation
Judith E. Krauss, Valentina Fiasco, Silvio Marchini et al. - Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York (IGDC)
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The Lobito Corridor: opportunities and challenges for a just transition

Lorenzo Cotula Rose Mosi Eric Bisil Lindlyn Tamufor Moma - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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Shifting climate adaptation finance to local communities through effective intermediaries

Noemi Grutter Leah Moss May Thazin Aung Rojy Joshi - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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Strengthening urban resilience in informal settlements: the SECURe framework in practice

Alice Grogan Giorgia Grist Alejandro Barcena - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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True Costs of Misinformation| Political Finance and Patronage Behind Disinformation: Evidence From India’s Election Campaigns

International Journal of Communication
Amogh Dhar Sharma - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)
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EADI in Numbers

1975
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