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Events & Workshops

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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!

23 October 2025

Global Development and Cooperation in a Geopolitical Era: Intersectoral Challenges and Complex Agendas amid Contestation and Crisis, 23–24 October 2025, Kraków, Poland

Call for Workshop Papers. Deadline: 31 July 2025

We are pleased to announce the theme of the upcoming APISA in Europe and EADI workshop.

This event is organised by APISA and EADI and the Centre for…

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)…

Blog

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Development
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Navigating the Tipping Point: Four Futures for Global Development Cooperation

08 July 2025 - Stephan Klingebiel, Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

The global system of development cooperation is in a state of flux. In a new policy brief we discuss how and why the very foundations of international aid and development are being shaken by…

Green Trade Barriers? Circular Economy, Trade, and the Future of the Global South

01 July 2025 - Pınar Yardımcı - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

In recent years, redesigning economic growth to reduce pressures on ecosystems has become central to sustainable development policies. The circular economy (CE) has emerged as a vital framework that…

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

24 June 2025 - 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

20 June 2025 - 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)

17 June 2025 - 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

Highlight Publications
Open Access
EADI members

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

19 May 2025 - 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

05 May 2025 - 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

22 April 2025 - 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…

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