Ton Dietz
Ton Dietz is professor of human geography and scientific director of the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) at the University of Amsterdam. He is also member of the steering committee of the Worldconnectors, a collaborative initiative of the Society for International Development, Netherlands (SID NL), the Development Policy Review Network (DPRN) and the National Commission for Sustainable Development in the Netherlands(NCDO).
Ton Dietz: We need a serious debate about serious issues, not hit-and-run one-liners; nor from our Southern colleagues
Ton Dietz | 12 February 2025
On February 10, two Dutch organizations responsible for stimulating public support for development assistance (NCDO and IS) organzsed a public evening debate about the WRR report. They did this in English, because they had invited some twenty gues…
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Ton Dietz: Five points for discussion (out of many more…)
Ton Dietz | 05 February 2025
1. I agree with the WRR report that there is an obvious need to shift the balance of Dutch (and international) aid from the current extreme focus onthe social sector to the economic sector (and for the Netherlands, particularly the productive use…
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Subjective truths
Ton Dietz, Francis Obeng, Jerim Obure, Fred Zaal | August 04, 2025
The starting point for development evaluations should be how the recipients of development assistance experience change, rather than the set perspectives of the evaluators. The participatory development assessment (PDA) methodology is designed to…
Til ontwikkelingsdebat naar hoger niveau
Frans Bieckmann, Ton Dietz | February 20, 2025
Breng het debat over ontwikkelingssamenwerking op een hoger niveau. In plaats van elkaar vliegen af te vangen op selectief gekozen details uit de zojuist verschenen evaluatie van het Afrikabeleid, zou een fundamentele discussie over het Nederlands…
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