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The Broker’s executive director, Frans Bieckmann, was invited as a keynote-speaker at the annual stakeholder meeting of Aqua for All on 18 June 2015.

In any situation, there is a chance you might lose and a chance you might win. We start a new blog on management of risks, within and beyond development cooperation.

On 31 January, as a follow-up to the Inequality Dossier and the subsequent online inequality debate, the Broker organized its first The Broker Day. A room full of experts discussed the policy steps that the international community - and the Nether...

The Broker is back! For the past month, our editorial team has been working hard to put together a Dossier on Inequality, which we are launching today. 

Welcome to The Broker Dossier on inequality. The core of the Dossier is formed by three articles by editors from The Broker team. These articles aim to give you a clear idea of what inequality is about and offer you a bird’s eye view of the debate...

Focus is een centraal woord in het vocabulaire van staatssecretaris voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking Ben Knapen. En terecht: een relatief kleine speler op het wereldtoneel als Nederland is, moet het zich concentreren op een beperkt aantal geografisc...

Nog op tijd voor de begrotingsbehandeling heeft de heer Knapen zijn belofte waargemaakt en ons zijn gedachten over het te voeren kennisbeleid meegedeeld. Vanuit mijn kleine werkelijkheid daarop een reactie.

The foreign policy chapter in the Rutte-Verhagen coalition agreement (Dutch/English) stresses the importance of preserving Dutch interests internationally, while emphasizing the significance of international solidarity in underpinning development...

Policy making in an increasingly complex world requires more knowledge and strategic analysis.

We need to expand our knowledge and use it in more context-specific analyses. The question is at what scale: national, regional or global? And how should we best develop a ‘diagnostics’ that can serve as a basis for specified (country or regional)...

The energetic online debate about global development is a starting point for reformulating development policies. In response to the report written by the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), contributors to The Broker's blog on the repo...

The International Studies Association is hosting its 51st Annual Convention in the vibrant city of New Orleans, USA.

On 18 January 2010, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) presented its report ‘Less pretension, more ambition: development aid that makes a difference’ to the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, Mr Bert Koenders

Communication for Sustainable Social Change is a new Centre-of-Excellence opening within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts. 

“The supply of knowledge and the demand for knowledge often do not match because the worlds of the fact searching expert and the power struggling decision maker are too far apart. A new specialist, the knowledge broker, is needed to bridge the ga...

The Development Studies Association , which works to connect and promote the development research community in UK and Ireland, will hold it's annual conference at the University of Ulster in Belfast from 2 – 4th September.

Editor in Chief Frans Bieckmann will update an editor's blog reflecting on the thought processes behind production of The Broker and highlighting interesting, useful and unusual information that he comes across day to day

In the previous issue of The Broker we described the knowledge policy of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We invited Rob de Vos, who has been responsible for knowledge management at the ministry since 2003, and Louk Box, rector of the...

Welcome to the website of The Broker, a bimonthly magazine and email newsletter, published by the Foundation for International Development Publications (IDP). The magazine is for all those concerned with development and globalization, especially i...