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This is a list of selected reports, papers, and articles, including a summary. In the second table a selection of books worth to read on social entrepreneurship.

This is a list of selected reports, papers and databases on social protection in developing countries. It consists of three tables: Table 1 contains a selection of reports by institutions as well as their theme pages on social protection; Table...

The Broker, together with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized the Dutch launch of the 2013 European Report on Development (ERD), Post-2015: Global Action for an Inclus...

The ongoing trend of decentralising governance responsibilities to the sub-national level in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is likely to continue in the near future. In order to achieve its objectives, it will be crucial that this tran...

An overview of the most important reports and other publications used for this Dossier on Inequality

The Broker was present at the annual conference of the Development Studies Association in London on 3 November to learn about the present state of the debate within the development studies community in the UK. During the discussion, five hot issue...

Van de aanzienlijke brievenstroom die momenteel vanuit het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken vloeit, is de brief over het kennisbeleid voor het CDA van groot belang. Het beleid van het huidige kabinet is gestoeld op de gedachte dat Nederland zich...

The recent government paper on a new Dutch knowledge policy for international cooperation is relevant far beyond this country alone. We agree that the debate it has created is important and should be held in English, if only because a wide constit...

Ten eerste ben ik blij met het heroverwegen van het kennisbeleid door DGIS en het opengooien van het debat zelf. Dit vooropgesteld. Ik denk dat er mooie kansen liggen, als verschillende kennisinstellingen, ministeries en het bedrijfsleven kunnen s...

The discussion in this blog is about shaping platforms for knowledge generation, exchange and utilisation. Our input identifies the function of a knowledge platform as using existing research, in practice, policy and academia, for a meta-level ana...

“Wie niet sterk is moet slim zijn”, dat is volgens mij voor DGIS de kern van het WRR-rapport “Minder pretentie, meer ambitie”. Slim zijn in het omgaan met schaarse middelen, maar ook beseffen hoe een klein en van het buitenland afhankeli...

Zoals al in bijdragen van anderen is aangegeven, zouden de voorgestelde kennisplatforms buiten de zogenaamde “gouden driehoek” van overheid, bedrijfsleven en kennisinstituten moeten staan. Dit geeft de mogelijkheid om ook watergebruikers en gebrui...

Ik zie inderdaad het nut in van een kennisplatform dat zich richt op water en ontwikkelinghulp. Mijn verhaal heeft betrekking op waterbeheer en bescherming tegen overstromingen. Niet op drinkwatervoorziening en afvalwater behandeling.Zo’n 6000 jaa...

Op 21 september 2024 bespraken experts tijdens een consultatiebijeenkomst het nieuwe kennisbeleid op het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Lees hier het verslag van de middagsessie.

Op 21 september 2024 organiseerde het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken een consultatiebijeenkomst over het nieuwe kennisbeleid. Lees hier het verslag van de ochtendsessie.

De voorgenomen Kennisplatforms van BuZa kunnen baat hebben bij de ervaringen die de afgelopen jaren zijn opgedaan met de IS-Academie.

In dit document staan links naar enkele adviezen die een belangrijke rol spelen bij de formulering van het nieuwe kennisbeleid.

Op 14 november 2024 stuurde Staatssecretaris Ben Knapen de kennisbrief naar de Tweede Kamer. Het nieuwe kennisbeleid zich zal concentreren op vijf kennisplatforms. Lees hieronder de gehele brief of via deze link.

Dit is de blog over het voorgenomen kennisbeleid van BuZa. Laat je mening horen!

Issue 25 of The Broker is a milestone. A fitting moment to look back at four years of pioneering journalism. More importantly, The Broker is at a crossroads, about to embark on an exciting new venture. This month we are launching an entirely new w...

In a sequence of three blog posts Alex Calvo examines the wider geopolitical issues that are likely to be affected by the nuclear incident in Fukushima Daiichi, Japan.In previous postings, Prof Calvo discussed the Nuclear Renaissance and the Compe...

Participants of the Egmond Eco Efficiency Conference reviewed a draft list of research topics - see an earlier blog post on this topic - and highlighted a few priorities, such as:- consumer behaviour; is the 'no pain no change' slogan really true?...

Lively debates in the Egmond Eco Efficiency Conference in Thursday afternoon's plenary discussion. One of the hot potatoes was the rebound effect, seen as a depressing topic by many, or just talking common sense by others.What's the Problem? How t...

European Commission says ‘research lacking’ Christian Hudson, DG Environment of the European Commission, said at the Conference that eco-efficiency or resource efficiency is the way to go. A Task Force on the issue has been set this week.Road bloc...

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

A lucrative oil industry means Angola’s economy is booming. Yet poor rural areas receive little funding. Sergio Calundungo, director of ADRA, a large NGO, wants research to investigate how high-level decisions are made concerning rural livelihoods...

This is the first report of the Broker thesis project. It highlights the theses submitted by four students from Africa. The theses have been reviewed by Meine Pieter van Dijk of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands;...

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 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.

This week The Broker is blogging from the Towards Knowledge Democracy conference in Leiden, The Netherlands. 

A growing number of academics are using web 2.0 tools such as blogs and wikis to share their findings, discuss new developments, and find new ways for collaborative research. How does this open and informal medium fit with traditional academic pro...

Within some sections of the academic community there is considerable hesitation to adopt web 2.0 applications for social networking through blogs, wikis, twitter and sites such as Facebook and YouTube. Granted, some academics, including a few prof...

Africa’s diaspora is the continent’s greatest offshore asset. An estimated 3.3 million Africans, of whom 1 million come from sub-Sahara Africa, live in EU countries alone. They occupy a strategic position linking the developed North with their hom...

The Global Forum for Health Research (Global Forum) agrees with the authors' statement that health issues need to be addressed in a comprehensive way, tackling social determinants of health, for which an intersectoral approach is essential.

Arnold Toynbee observed in 1931 that "The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare [hea...

Policy makers and academics have different time horizons. That is one reason for their often limited dialogue. However, alignment and mutual reinforcement are necessary – especially in times of crisis.

In this series of articles, practitioners in the field of international cooperation describe the dilemmas and research issues they and their organizations face, the ways in which researchers can help resolve them and the questions they would like...

The European Report on Development is likely to bring only marginally new perspectives into the field of development, to kill whatever originality European research may have, and to be counterproductive to the attempts to shift the responsibility...