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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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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…

From SDGs to GPTs: Trading Solidarity for AI Automation?

Ron Salaj - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In this historical moment of a deepening global polycrisis, artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to emerge as the new knowledge regime promising to transform the world. This has been amplified with 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…

From SDGs to GPTs: Trading Solidarity for AI Automation?

Ron Salaj - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In this historical moment of a deepening global polycrisis, artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to emerge as the new knowledge regime promising to transform the world. This has been amplified with 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…

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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Lecturer in Technology and International Development

Deadline: 22 June 2025
Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)
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Two Short-Term Visiting Researcher (m/f/diverse) Transformation of Political (Dis-)order

Deadline: 22 June 2025
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Lecturer in Economics (Academic Education)

Application Deadline: 23 June 2025
SOAS University of London SOAS
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Lecturer in Economics (Teaching & Research)

Application Deadline: 23 June 2025
SOAS University of London SOAS
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Calls

Call for Independent Experts in Quality Assurance

Deadline: 25 June 2025
International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education INQAAHE
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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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Publications

Why Maintaining EU-ECOWAS Partnership is Important in Uncertain Times (ANCIP Policy No. 2)

Mona Saleh - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)
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Party Competition and Collective Jihadist Radicalization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jannis Saalfeld - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)
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Conceptualisation and implementation of gender-transformative approaches in development cooperation

Karin Gaesing, Frank Bliss & Carolin Rosenberg - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)
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MALAWI: Gender transformative effects through the implementation of land rights for women

Karin Gaesing - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)
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(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order

Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Leonardo Bandarra - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)
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EADI in Numbers

1975
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23
Countries of Members
117
Members