As development actions are increasingly being brought under the umbrella of top-down security and migration management the EU risks tipping the balance.

Despite pressure on civic space, Egyptians are breaking one of the country’s largest taboos.

Following up on last year’s interview, The Broker held another exclusive interview with Ángel Losada, the EU Special Representative for the Sahel. We met with Losada at a timely moment, shortly after the announcement of a new joint force of five S…

Last month an external learning review of the five Dutch knowledge platforms for global development, several of which The Broker has been involved in, was published. The review shares some important lessons on knowledge brokering. Knowledge broker…

Can the EU stem migration flows to Europe by supporting agriculture in countries of origin? In some situations, it can. The impact could be particularly large if Europe worked to increase the resilience of the food system and the people in countri…

The EU Special Representative for the Sahel has been given the mandate to address the issue of continuing insecurity, the main cause of migration out of the region.

You can read it in the newspapers every day: national economies are not creating enough jobs and fewer quality jobs in the productive sectors. Globalization, automation and financialization of the economy have been identified as the drivers of cur…

It is a political choice to allow the spread of insecure employment conditions, for example by deregulating the relationship between employers and employees. It is also a political choice to reverse this trend, but one that requires a broader unde…

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…

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