Challenges: the new development policy in Germany
Wilfried Steen | 13 December 2025The development policy of the new Federal Government is characterized by some remarkable changes. Even though development policy is the last point in the 130 page declaration of the coalition agreement of the government parties, there do not seem…
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Poverty alleviation and participation in German development policies
Klemens van de Sand | 10 December 2025In the late 1980s, in response to the increasing criticism of the ineffectiveness of German development programmes, a number of new approaches and principles were included in German policies relating to development cooperation. Examples of these a…
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Development policy is relevant for the system!
27 November 2025Danuta Sacher is the Executive Director of terre des hommes Germany. Sacher, former head of department of the Politics and Campaigns of the development organisation Brot für die Welt in Stuttgart, Germany, and having worked on refugee and human ri…
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It’s the structure, stupid. Where is German Development Cooperation headed?
Daniel Brombacher | 27 November 2025Politics or policies? Debating the structural reform of German Development CooperationEmotions were running high in Germany when the reform of the German development cooperation system was once again fiercely debated in the weeks and months before…
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