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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)…

12 June 2025

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

The international symposium organized by the Department of Global and Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and the…

19 June 2025

Online Meeting: Working Group on Citizenship and Civil Society in Development, 19 June 2025 11.00 CET

Newcomers Invited!

We (Nicola Banks, Willem Elbers, and Lau Schulpen) recently took over the convenorship of the EADI Working Group on ‘Citizenship and Civil Society in…

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)…

12 June 2025

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

The international symposium organized by the Department of Global and Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and the…

19 June 2025

Online Meeting: Working Group on Citizenship and Civil Society in Development, 19 June 2025 11.00 CET

Newcomers Invited!

We (Nicola Banks, Willem Elbers, and Lau Schulpen) recently took over the convenorship of the EADI Working Group on ‘Citizenship and Civil Society in…

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!

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The End of Development Aid?

Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In the last few months, our object of research has seen some dramatic changes. I am referring to the de-facto dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after the…

“Vulnerable Research” in a Time of Climate Change and Coloniality

Charlotte Weatherill - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The role of the academy in empire and colonial violence is the main theme of Babel: An Arcane History, a book by R. F. Kuang. Having wrestled with his own complicity in a system that also provides him…

The EU’s Deforestation Regulation: Chances for Inclusive Sustainable Forest and Agricultural Commodity Chains

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha, George T. Mudimu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
It is undisputable that addressing deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change requires a collectively effort globally. Although the private sector – as a key element of forest and…

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…

The End of Development Aid?

Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In the last few months, our object of research has seen some dramatic changes. I am referring to the de-facto dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after the…

“Vulnerable Research” in a Time of Climate Change and Coloniality

Charlotte Weatherill - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The role of the academy in empire and colonial violence is the main theme of Babel: An Arcane History, a book by R. F. Kuang. Having wrestled with his own complicity in a system that also provides him…

The EU’s Deforestation Regulation: Chances for Inclusive Sustainable Forest and Agricultural Commodity Chains

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha, George T. Mudimu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
It is undisputable that addressing deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change requires a collectively effort globally. Although the private sector – as a key element of forest and…

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…

The End of Development Aid?

Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
In the last few months, our object of research has seen some dramatic changes. I am referring to the de-facto dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after the…

Member Publications

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Open Access
EADI members

(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…

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi (eds.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a…

Development Actors and their Indigenous Other. Knowledge Production and Negotiation in the Upper Baram (Malaysia)

Agathe Le Vaslot - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of development projects articulated towards the ‘empowerment’ of so-called beneficiaries, particularly in contexts affecting indigenous peoples’…

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…

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi (eds.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a…

Development Actors and their Indigenous Other. Knowledge Production and Negotiation in the Upper Baram (Malaysia)

Agathe Le Vaslot - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of development projects articulated towards the ‘empowerment’ of so-called beneficiaries, particularly in contexts affecting indigenous peoples’…

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…

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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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Departmental Lecturer in Political Economy of Development

Application Deadline: 30 May 2025
Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)
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PHD RESEARCHER (F/M/D)

APPLICATION DEADLINE : 02.06.2025
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Social Sciences Fellowships

Deadline: 02 June 2025
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)
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Doctoral scholarship holder economics and development

Deadline to apply : 5 June 2025
Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)
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Calls

Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South - Open call for research papers and summer school

Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 May 2025
Transnational Institute TNI
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Call for Submissions: NORRAG Policy Insights "The Triple Nexus at 10: What We’ve Learned and Where We Go From Here."

Deadline : 31 May, 2025
Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training NORRAG
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Call for Papers: The Migrant Body in South-South Migrations: 15 December 2025 - 16 December 2025

Submission Deadline: 02 June 2025
Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Call for essays on fascism and the Right for State of Power 2026 report

Submission Deadline: 02 June 2025
Transnational Institute TNI
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Call for Papers: Current Perspectives on Populism in Authoritarian Regime Contexts, Freiburg, 25-26 September 2025

Deadline: 09 June 2025
Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)
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Publications

Acteurs associatifs et protection sociale dans l’exploitation minière artisanale et à petite échelle

Philippe Kabunga Dunia, Sara Geenen, Francine Iragi Mukotanyi et al. - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)
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The 2014 law relating to refugees in Rwanda: between theory and reality

Frank Ahimbisibwe - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)
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Challenges and Insights from the GINGER Project: Understanding Perspectives from Technology-enabled and MSME Businesses in Nigeria

INCLUDE - INCLUDE Knowledge Platform
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A New Perspective on European Labour Migration: A Case Study of the Opportunity Cost for Greece and Poland

Katrin Marchand, Pavlos Liagkas, Dani Smith & Aleksandra Wojnar - UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT
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Digital Disinformation Trends in Latin America: Organisation, Goals, and Policy Pushback

Jesus Antonio Renzullo Narvaez - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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EADI in Numbers

1975
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