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Events & Workshops

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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

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)…

Blog

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Development
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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…

Member Publications

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Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia: We Were Never Global

23 February 2026 - Adam Moe Fejerskov , Lars Engberg-Pedersen , Meron Zeleke et al. - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

This book examines the complex subject of violence against women (VAW), moving beyond ways of thinking that privilege Western positions and subordinate local perspectives. Chapters analyse the…

Fascism: State of Power 2026

10 February 2026 - Nick Buxton, Esme Abbott, Théo Bourgeron et al. - Transnational Institute TNI

Fascism and the far right are on the rise. TNI’s 14th State of Power report looks behind the news headlines at the underlying reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, the ways…

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…

Trade in Tasks A New Perspective to International Trade, Structural Change and Economic Development

16 December 2025 - Gaaitzen de Vries & Marcel P. Timmer - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

This novel perspective captures the increasingly fragmented and specialized nature of global production. They present new data and methods to measure the income and employment associated with task…

Guide for Global Research Partnerships

19 November 2025 - Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance)

This guide was developed by the Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP Alliance) of SCNAT with the support of 200 researchers and practitioners from around the world.

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