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18 March 2026

Virtual Dialogues - Rights. Justice. Action. For All Women and Girls: Reflections and Practices on Feminist Participatory Grantmaking (FPG), 18 March

18.00 CET

An event organised by the EADI Working Group on Gender Justice

19 May 2026

EADI General Assembly, 19 May 2026

Online,13.00-16.00 CEST

All EADI institutional and individual members are invited to attend the online assembly. Invitations have been sent by email. Please register here…

10 June 2026

Transformative Skills: Reframing Competence Development in Higher Education. Workshop (Online) 10 June 2026, 14:00 CET

Application deadline: 15 March 2026

Joint Workshop with the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - University of Applied Sciences

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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The Gendered Cost of Waiting for Justice

09 March 2026 - Irma Nugrahanti - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

In the field of feminist economics, cost extends beyond mere budgetary figures, market prices, or GDP metrics. It encompasses the often-invisible labour of social reproduction, the psychological…

The Two Blind Spots of the ‘Equitable Partnerships’ Debate

03 March 2026 - Eyob Balcha Gebremariam - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

There might be more than two, but I want to focus on these two blind spots, both in the scholarly debate and in the policy domains of “equitable partnerships”. The first is the dominance of the…

Unlocking the Benefits from Conservation? Indigenous Youth and Entrepreneurship in Drakensberg Park

24 February 2026 - Jabulile Happyness Mzimela, Inocent Moyo - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

The Natal Colonial government initiated the establishment of protected areas in the Drakensberg in 1903, drawing on Eurocentric conservation models that sidelined Indigenous knowledge systems and…

Decolonising Development Studies: Why It Matters

10 February 2026 - Devika Dutt - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Calls to decolonise Development Studies have gained increasing visibility across universities, research institutes, and policy spaces. Yet despite its growing popularity, decolonisation is often…

COP30 and Just Transition in the South: Who Will Pay the Social Price?

27 January 2026 - Jiayi Wang, Mengjie Xu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

When COP30 ended in the Amazonian city of Belém, much of the global media focus stayed locked on a familiar question: would the final agreement clearly call for the “phasing out of fossil fuels”? The…

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Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace Multilateral Cooperation for People and Planet

27 January 2026 - Cornelia Ulbert, Marcus Kaplan - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)

There is growing consensus that the liberal international order as we have known it is dwindling. Since it never really lived up to its expectations, proponents and critics alike do not think it…

Feminist Foreign and Development Policies: Opportunities and Challenges from a Global South Perspective

13 January 2026 - Anna Eknor Ackzell - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

This paper examines how Feminist Foreign and Development Policies (FFDPs) have emerged as both a site of transformation and contention within global governance. It traces the articulation of feminist…

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