The world is not manageable
Reinier van Hoffen | 10 July 2025Imagine the world was a cooperation: what business model would serve us best to achieve sustainable development?
▶Results Based Management: does it pay off?
Reinier van Hoffen | 29 May 2025As a result of increasing complexity and absence of strong leadership it has become difficult for policy makers to ensure accountability in the aid chain. This has resulted in the popularization of Results Based Management (RBM). Instigated by the...
▶Bureaucracy kills democracy
Reinier van Hoffen | 17 January 2025"As long as states represent the highest form of political authority, it will be impossible to channel human self-interest toward common solutions."
▶A killing embrace of diversity?
Reinier van Hoffen | 05 December 2024The ‘development world’, which may be referred to as a world in it’s own right, has witnessed yet another high level gathering at a ‘critical juncture’ in global development.
▶Kennis is hoofd, hart en handen
Reinier van Hoffen | 27 November 2024Dank Peter voor deze investering om de diverse verhalen met elkaar te verbinden en diverse narratieven als passé te verklaren.
▶Brief Knapen knaagt aan kennis
Reinier van Hoffen | 24 November 2024Nog 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.
▶Livelihoods at risk: what underpins our actions?
Reinier van Hoffen | 13 June 2025PSO and Wageningen University brought together actors in the humanitarian aid delivery in a panel focusing on livelihood information and responses. The panel was well balanced in terms of the variety of actors and continents/situations. Two presen...
▶Reinier van Hoffen
Reinier van Hoffen is Lecturer Capacity Development at VHL University for Applied Sciences in Wageningen, contributing to the Bachelor International Development Management and two professional Masters programmes: Management of Development (MOD) and Agricultural Production Chain Management (APCM). He is also owner of URAIDE, a social enterprise with a mission to keep society space open.



