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When the Dutch private sector is involved in development in Africa, a dilemma may arise. The Dutch government claims that businesses could have a positive impact on local economic development on the continent in the longer term. But do their activ...

The TTIP will lead to at least a million job losses and threaten labour standards in US and EU.

The impact of the TTIP on employment in Europe and the US would be minimal, or even negative.

US citizens have found themselves on the short end of the stick too many times to believe that the TTIP will create more jobs.

The bilateral setting of the TTIP makes its outcome subject to two specific opposing forces.

The implications of TTIP for employment are uncertain for the EU and US, but also for developing countries.

EPAs can be a good launchpad to foster more productive employment in Africa, but should not be an end in itself.

While establishing partnerships to have a greater social impact, social enterprises also face challenges.

If you want to be a genuine agent of change while being financially sustainable you need to be able to truly listen and interact with the people you are trying to serve. In order to do this, the following points are crucial.

Together with the academic and financial sectors and the Dutch government, social entrepreneurs are building an environment in which they can flourish.

Rigid internal profit goals or lack of direct personal experience with BOP markets and their constraints are key to big companies’ ignorance to work with social entrepreneurs, writes Ashoka’s Al Hammond.

The website of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform has been launched. In the Platform, an open and independent initiative, representatives from international networks and organizations of businesses, science, civil society and policy come t...

If one message should be taken from the European Development Days it is that the world will not be able to tackle its many future economic, social and ecological challenges without sustainable development partnerships.

Partnerships between the private sector and like-minded organizations are key to securing genuine and lasting change in global development.

The new World Bank strategy must take risk and uncertainty into account.

Exciting news from The Broker! The Broker has been selected by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to run the office of the Food and Business Knowledge Forum with two consortium partners.

A new global partnership can provide the impetus for tackling the development challenges that Africa is facing. It must therefore be mutually beneficial, promote the autonomy of its states and address its developmental priorities.

A new global partnership can provide the impetus for tackling the development challenges that Africa is facing. It must therefore be mutually beneficial, promote the autonomy of its states and address its developmental priorities.

If we want sustainable management of our natural resources to be part of the post-2015 world, an understanding of the water-energy-food nexus is required.

While the UN High Level Panel report has been praised for its comprehensiveness and ambition, it is also criticized for avoiding more difficult political issues like inequality.

Sharing Dutch agricultural expertise in lcoal partnerships can positively contribute to the eradication of rural poverty. 

Public private partnerships (PPPs) have become important means to pursue complex development goals, such as sustainability and food security. Recent examples include the German Initiative for Agribusiness and Food Security (GIAF) and the...

New initiatives based on horizontally structured partnerships for rural development are more equal forms of rural development than traditional PPPs.

The public-public partnerships that are currently being implemented throughout Latin America are an important, but often neglected, alternative to water sector privatization. 

Global networks of Public Private Partnerships’ successes in promoting sustainable food production cannot be ignored. Through long-term commitments, they advantaged project-based learning, the up-scaling of local capabilities and knowledge transfers.

Land grab is rarely challenged through a food security and food sovereignty perspective in research and policy elaboration, in spite of its multifarious impact on both of such key dimensions of human livelihood. 

The MDGs tend to disregard processes of change and the transformative power of that change. However, it is precisely that transformative power that is at the core of development issues, the primary goal of most development cooperation and the diff...

Feeding growing urban communities with healthy nutritious food may sound challenging but offers a tremendous opportunity for intra-regional trade, writes Ian Sayers.

Dutch food security policy builds on the expertise and knowledge of an active public and private agri-sector to enhance Dutch and global development through partnership.

The Broker dossier on food security is an interactive platform with the aim of publishing and debating innovative ways to secure good quality food and nutrition. It also identifies new actors in the food security debate and looks at how knowledge...

For many decades development aid of western donors has been pretty well shielded from probing questions by the public opinion and politicians. Development aid was, and to some extend still is, essentially seen as “helping poor people”, a charitabl...

Interview with David Boys (Public Services International and appointed to the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation - UNSG...

Since the first of January 2010, the water services of Paris have been provided by a single public operator, Eau de Paris. The old public-private company has been transformed into a public body, whose mission is to produce, transport, distribute a...

Active citizens’ participation in water and sanitation initiatives is of crucial importance to ensure sustainable improvements in water services for the poorest. The role of civil society organisations, community groups and trade unions is essenti...

Presumably few Europeans would oppose one percent of their water bill going to international solidarity projects to help people who don’t yet have access to safe water and adequate sanitation. And as the Swedish proverb says, many little streams m...

The end of the first day of the MDG-fest at the UN General Assembly and everyone seems to be promising more and better partnerships: between the public, private and civil sectors; between international agencies (the IMF and ILO had a love-in in Os...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a visionary statement. They have focused the attention and intention of the world towards the challenge of our time. But they are a product of our past and as such are simultaneously unhelpful as they di...

The recent change in global health policy and priorities, as heralded in three key reports published recently, revitalizes the PHC paradigm to provide ‘health for all’ and is characterized by a strong focus on equity and people-centred health serv...

The lessons of a recent evaluation of demand-driven research programmes in developing countries have not been incorporated into the ministry’s new research policy.