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Devex Invested: Spring Meetings memo — corridors are hot, climate is not Devex Invested: Spring Meetings memo — corridors are hot, climate is not

Iran war fallout in Africa, no subsidy U-turns, and a big push on economic corridors.

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It's quite some time until June, but you can register for this webinar now and get a reminder later:

"Beyond Technical Solutions: Water Governance, Power, and Social–Ecological Change"

📅 10 June

🕓 16.00 CEST

www.eadi.org/news-2/virtu...

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Sudan: World Leaders Need to Act on Ongoing Atrocities Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for ser...

After 3 years of conflict, Berlin #Sudan conference shouldn't be remembered as 1st day of yet another year of atrocities.

@eudiplomacy.bsky.social should:
⛑️Press measures to protect civilians
⚖️Support genuine accountability
🫸Join atrocity prevention coalition

Our take 👇
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

Stress-Tested by War: Modernizing IMF Support in a Volatile World Despite the heavy-hitting byline, the IMF's blog post on the economic fallout from the Iran war leaves me with two overarching questions: First, is IMF surveillance agile and forward-looking enough to...

Is the International Monetary Fund equipped for today’s shocks?

Mary Svenstrup argues the response to the Iran war shows why faster, more flexible support is needed—because this isn’t a typical crisis.

www.cgdev.org/blog/stress-tested-war-m...

World Bank weighs consolidating its three accountability mechanisms World Bank weighs consolidating its three accountability mechanisms

It's part of a broader effort to streamline and simplify the bank's work, but some experts warn that integration could weaken existing accountability safeguards.

The Double Legitimacy Crisis of the Old Aid Order: Four Scenarios for Development Cooperation and their Plausibility By Nadia Molenaers Development cooperation is not simply facing another cyclical debate about effectiveness. It is facing something deeper: a crisis of the very roles through which it has historica…

What is changing today is not that interests have suddenly entered or captured development cooperation. They’ve always been there. But for the first time in the history of development cooperation, both legitimizing functions are eroding at the same time.
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2535

German #DevelopmentCooperation must act swiftly to address the #FertiliserCrisis. Multilateral coordination and the promotion of #SoilHealth are priorities.

@gtups.bsky.social & Katharina Molitor in #TheCurrentColumn: 📲 www.idos-research.de/en/the-curre...

Use 3ie Development Evidence Portal to gather evaluation insights The 3ie Development Evidence Portal (DEP) at developmentevidence.3ieimpact.org is the world's largest curated repository of rigorous evidence on what works in international development. With over 20,000 impact evaluations, systematic reviews, and evidence gap maps, it is an essential resource for evaluators, policy advisors, researchers, and practitioners working in low- and middle-income country contexts. What the DEP Contains The portal brings together three core record types:

Use 3ie Development Evidence Portal to gather evaluation insights

The 3ie Development Evidence Portal (DEP) at developmentevidence.3ieimpact.org is the world's largest curated repository of rigorous evidence on what works in international development. With over 20,000 impact evaluations,…

Communities of Practice: A guidebook that actually works in real life www.weitzenegger.de/content/?p=3...

Quote: “European colonizers often told African nationalists that their people were incapable of governing themselves.” - Baba G. Jallow, former executive secretary of Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). Article: How fossilised, power-hungry men keep Africa in a stranglehold

Only one example for the racism and arrogance of European colonisers. 👇

Feminist Innovation in Evaluation Practice: Six Tools You Can Use Now The Feminist Innovation in Monitoring and Evaluation (FIME) Small Awards have produced something very tangible for practitioners: six concrete toolkits that cover the full evaluation cycle, from policy design and crisis response to relocation, community projects, impact investing, and evaluator training. They were developed in real-world settings and respond to gaps most of us know too well: what women and marginalized groups describe as transformative change rarely shows up in our logframes or indicators.

Feminist Innovation in Evaluation Practice: Six Tools You Can Use Now

The Feminist Innovation in Monitoring and Evaluation (FIME) Small Awards have produced something very tangible for practitioners: six concrete toolkits that cover the full evaluation cycle, from policy design and crisis response…

The Double Legitimacy Crisis of the Old Aid Order: Four Scenarios for Development Cooperation and their Plausibility By Nadia Molenaers Development cooperation is not simply facing another cyclical debate about effectiveness. It is facing something deeper: a crisis of the very roles through which it has historica…

"In what kind of world order will development cooperation exist, and what role will it play there? These are not merely technical questions. They are political and normative choices about what kind of international order remains possible"

✍️ Our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2535

Evaluating Our Way to 2030: A Critical Look at the Country-Led SDG Evaluation Guide 2.0 There is a particular kind of institutional honesty required to ask not just what has been done, but whether it worked and why. That honesty is at the heart of evaluation. And in 2026, with less than four years left before the 2030 deadline and SDG progress stalling across nearly every dimension, it is also at the heart of an urgent global challenge.

Evaluating Our Way to 2030: A Critical Look at the Country-Led SDG Evaluation Guide 2.0

There is a particular kind of institutional honesty required to ask not just what has been done, but whether it worked and why. That honesty is at the heart of evaluation. And in 2026, with less than four years…

Computer code with text overlay: “Governing AGI will be the most difficult management problem humanity has ever faced.” Jerome C. Glenn, executive director of the Millennium Project and member of the Club of Rome

AGI is expected to be capable of rewriting its own code and developing objectives beyond human control. In an open letter, international experts call for a special session of the UN General Assembly dedicated to AGI ➡️ vist.ly/4vj45

"Cutting Official Development Assistance (ODA) in order to invest in defence spending is a false economy that will not make our world safer." - Shahd Mousalli, Senior Humanitarian Adviser.

Steal these gender indicators (seriously) No need to start from scratch. These frameworks already exist.

Steal these gender indicators (seriously)
open.substack.com/pub/ann447/p...

How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons By Laura Camfield In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In …

"Development Studies...often neglects both the past and the future, and its technocratic orientation inhibits exploration of alternatives to, e.g. the global capitalist world order."

✍️From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

Merit, Meritocracy, and Decolonising Knowledge for Development By Amitabha Sarkar / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project I grew up in a family shaped by the complexities of colonial misadventure in Calcutta, a refugee past marked by economic har…

"Decolonising knowledge is not merely about diversifying classrooms or curricula; it demands rethinking the very metrics of excellence, for if these remain tied to Western-centric, market-driven logics, inclusion alone will change little."

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2349

We Can Talk in English, but Can We Talk about English? Social science Research and Linguistic Predominance By Basile Boulay (part 1 of 3) The 50th anniversary of EADI is a good opportunity to reflect on the multiple evolutions of Development Studies, a…

“We all know languages are not simply instrumental means to convey an idea: they shape who we are, how we think, how we sense the world around us”

✍🏻 From our blog

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1881

Beyond the Toolkit: Decolonising Evaluation for Sustainable Food Systems Webinar Review by Karsten Weitzenegger. Date: 17 December 2025Categories: Methodologies, Climate Adaptation, EquityTags: #DecolonialEvaluation #EvalForEarth #Intersectionality #FoodSystems The evaluation community is currently navigating a critical pivot point. In the face of a "poly-crisis" affecting our climate and food systems, it is no longer sufficient to merely ask if an intervention worked. We must rigorously interrogate whose knowledge defines success, …

Beyond the Toolkit: Decolonising Evaluation for Sustainable Food Systems

Webinar Review by Karsten Weitzenegger. Date: 17 December 2025Categories: Methodologies, Climate Adaptation, EquityTags: #DecolonialEvaluation #EvalForEarth #Intersectionality #FoodSystems The evaluation community is…

Evaluation Salary Trends The Evaluation Salary Trends Report by EvalCommunity provides a comprehensive data-driven analysis of the global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) sector, drawing on insights from over 38,000 professionals. The document is structured to examine workforce demographics, compensation disparities, and the shifting landscape of professional life, highlighting how factors like gender, geography, and advanced education significantly impact earning potential. Beyond mere statistics, the report explores transformative industry drivers such as the 

Evaluation Salary Trends

The Evaluation Salary Trends Report by EvalCommunity provides a comprehensive data-driven analysis of the global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) sector, drawing on insights from over 38,000 professionals. The document is structured to examine workforce…

Beyond Linear Change: Why Outcome Mapping Matters for Complex Development Work ... And How to Join the Global Learning Community The international development sector is built on a fundamental paradox. We design programs with the best intentions, set clear targets, and monitor outputs rigorously, yet real change in complex systems rarely follows our carefully drawn logic models. Communities resist or reinterpret interventions. Policy windows shift. Beneficiaries themselves become agents of unexpected transformation.

Beyond Linear Change: Why Outcome Mapping Matters for Complex Development Work

... And How to Join the Global Learning Community The international development sector is built on a fundamental paradox. We design programs with the best intentions, set clear targets, and monitor outputs rigorously,…

How Will AI Change the Way Humanitarians Produce Knowledge? The Humanitarian AI Working Group recently convened the latest installment of their “Humanitarian AI Countdown” series, a weekly initiative designed to bridge the gap between cutting-ed…

How Will AI Change the Way Humanitarians Produce Knowledge? deveval.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/h...

How Will AI Change the Way Humanitarians Produce Knowledge? The Humanitarian AI Working Group recently convened the latest installment of their "Humanitarian AI Countdown" series, a weekly initiative designed to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and humanitarian decision-making. This session focused on a critical and evolving topic: how artificial intelligence is fundamentally destabilizing and reshaping the way humanitarians produce knowledge. The event provided a platform to discuss the unknown implications of these shifts for the sector’s functioning, moving beyond the hype to address the structural changes AI imposes on aid work.

How Will AI Change the Way Humanitarians Produce Knowledge?

The Humanitarian AI Working Group recently convened the latest installment of their "Humanitarian AI Countdown" series, a weekly initiative designed to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and humanitarian decision-making. This…

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Anti-Zukunftskurs der DIHK stoppen! Die DIHK verbreitet in ihren Pressemeldungen irreführende Informationen über angeblich zu hohe Kosten der Energiewende: "Energiewende oder Energiewende-Politik kostet 5,4 Billionen Euro" heißt es dort...

Ein Wirtschaftsgigant bremst den #Klimaschutz aus: Die #DIHK fordert, dass Deutschland das Ziel der Klimaneutralität bis 2045 abschafft.

Unterzeichne jetzt die WeAct-Petition, um an den DIHK-Präsident zu appellieren. weact.campact.de/petitions/an...

Anti-Zukunftskurs der DIHK stoppen! Die DIHK verbreitet in ihren Pressemeldungen irreführende Informationen über angeblich zu hohe Kosten der Energiewende: "Energiewende oder Energiewende-Politik kostet 5,4 Billionen Euro" heißt es dort...

Ein Wirtschaftsgigant bremst den #Klimaschutz aus: Die #DIHK fordert, dass Deutschland das Ziel der Klimaneutralität bis 2045 abschafft.

Unterzeichne jetzt die WeAct-Petition, um an den DIHK-Präsident zu appellieren. weact.campact.de/petitions/an...

What Would it Take to Build a Post-Extractivist Agriculture? By Will LaFleur What is the relationship between extractivism, agriculture, and a sustainable future? As I started the fieldwork for my doctoral studies, this question sat at the heart of my inquir…

Based on his dissertation, Will LaFleur calls for rethinking the fundamentals of food production in line with degrowth

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473