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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...

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Specific policy is needed to respond to the loss of social control over employment.

The importance of moving beyond Defence, Diplomacy and Development towards Fair Trade, Financial Transparency and a Firearms Treaty to achieve human security in fragile states. 

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

Now that Official Development Assistance (ODA) has been declining for the past few years, academic discussions on how to attract additional public and private sources of funding for sustainable development are heating up.

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

Europe has to start investing in people instead of destroying its growth potential if it wants to create more and better jobs.

The private sector is the primary generator of sustainable employment, so governments need to work to ensure that the environment for growth is promoted and maintained.

Western governments are increasingly reframing their rhetoric of engagement in fragile and conflict-affected areas around the development of a vibrant private sector. But how does this ‘new’ approach work in practice? Who are the ‘new’ beneficiari...

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.

When rethinking public aid as a catalyst for development-oriented private investment, several elements need to be taken into account.

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

With only a quarter of the world’s population having access to social protection, the case for expanding it is gaining ground in international discussions. The debate focuses on how best to design social protection, whether it should be universal...

In the last week of September, world leaders gathered in New York for the general debate marking the opening of the 68th UN General Assembly (GA). This was an important moment for the post-2015 process, as several events were organized on the glob...

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 green transformation should be a core element of the post-2015 agenda and achieving it will depend on whether we will be able to create the knowledge needed.

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.

If we want to increase jobs and reduce poverty, we must emphasize the private sector's role in development.

We have never before been in a situation where developments are occurring so fast and can be so disruptive.

How can we create a more inclusive economy and what obstacles lie in the way? This debate seeks answers.

Norway’s recent international cooperation white paper, Sharing for Prosperity, seems stubbornly non-conformist. For it recommits Norway to some fundamental, if today unfashionable, purposes: for low-income lands, pursuit of growth-with-r...

Many trillions of US dollars are needed quickly to finance the investments for a low carbon economy. Where to find the capital and investors, what keeps them away from investing in more sustainable initiatives. Ingrid Holmes (E3G) spoke about that...

To feed the world’s growing population in a sustainable and inclusive way with good quality food is one of the main tasks for our time. The solution lies partly at the local level: the livelihoods, and the cultural, socioeconomic, and environmenta...

After our three-month debate on food security, the report with the main findings and recommendations is online. Over 90 international experts helped determine key challenges and offered answers on how a knowledge-based policy can tackle global foo...

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

If the corporate world is to pursue a global food security agenda, it cannot ignore the role of small-scale farming systems. Therefore it is essential they make connections with local organisations.

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

When rethinking water and environmental policies for the coming years, the harsh consequences of water privatization must not be forgotten. 

Corridors and their use of PPPs do seem to offer a range of opportunities – the challenge is to put in place policies that ensure the benefits are spread more widely.

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

More guidelines on food security include the Right to Food. At the same time donors and governments heavily support private sector development to increase agricultural investment and growth. The focus should be kept on smallholder farmers. 

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.

Fantahun Wakie Birhanu observes that food security is locked into the function of global trade and profit-making. The solution is de-commoditized food to achieve truly sustainable food security at global level.

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

Experts will debate tough questions on how to feed the world’s population. It shed light on how effectively global knowledge and expertise on food security are being used.

Claudio Shuftan argues that development professionals need to become more aware of where philanthropic stakeholders are coming from and why.

The Broker, in cooperation with the OECD, invites you to contribute to this blog about the challenges of the coming HLF on aid effectivess at Busan. 

Some weeks ago the European Commission published its initial views on the strategy towards the Rio+20 Summit. The communication has to fuel dialogues ahead of a final EU Rio+20 Strategy later this year. Although the communication, titled 'Rio+20:...

From my perspective the author’s diagnosis is essentially right. There is overall consensus that recent decades have seen an increase in inequities in general and health in particular. Some LDC countries are even showing deteriorating health outco...