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| Welcome to the fortnightly newsletter of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). |
| 1st Issue March 2026 Editorial Today we’d like to remind you of our webinar on Feminist Participatory Grantmaking next Wednesday for which you can still register. Apart from that, we’re happy to share two new blog posts, a podcast, a call for book proposals and a « Research to Policy » webinar for early career researchers. And our land, labour and food working group has some more interesting webinars in the pipeline. From our Blog The Two Blind Spots of the ‘Equitable Partnerships’ Debate « Every effort to breathe the air of equity and justice into the life of research collaborations is smothered by the multiple waves of power imbalances that emerge from the development episteme. Research collaborations remain inherently unequal and hierarchical unless we dare to decouple their financing from development assistance », writes Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, not to forget issues of passport positionality. Read more The Gendered Cost of Waiting for Justice « When the state neglects to deliver timely justice due to deferred reform, fiscal austerity, or inaction, the gap is not left unfilled. It is disproportionately absorbed by women through unpaid care work, informal labour, and social repair. » Our latest blog post by Irma Nugrahanti was published on the occasion of international women’s day. Read more To the Blog Overview Online-Workshop For Early Career Researchers From Research to Policy, 26 March, 16.00 CET This online workshop led by Sven Grimm (IDOS) will provide participants with practical insights into how to effectively bring research results to the attention of policymakers. It will be interactive in nature and will include time for discussion, practical exercises, and exchange among participants. Read more and register See all EADI Events Call for Book Proposals: Global Development Series On the occasion of welcoming two new editorial board members, we would like to remind you that our book series with Palgrave/Springer is looking for proposals again. The series seeks to broaden our understanding of the processes that advance or impede human development, whether from a political, economic, sociological or anthropological perspective. Recent open access titles in the series have reached more than 240k downloads which is quite high for a series. Read more New « Innovating Methods » Podcast Out! What Future Studies can bring to Global Development This podcast episode features a conversation with Shakil Ahmed, educator, storyteller, and futurist at Ridiculous Futures. Shakil unpacks different approaches to future studies, shares his thoughts on the role of various methods to explore the future, and offers recommendations for how to get started on investigating the future. Listen Working Group Webinar Series This joint working group with DSA is planning an interesting webinar series. Check it out and register! 25 March: The social reproduction of agrarian change More 09 April: Book Talk: Depletion More 30 April: Book Talk: Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan More 28 May: From cultivator to footloose labour: renegotiating land, labour and gender More EJDR – Latest Open Access Articles We’re happy to share the latest open access articles published by our journal, The European Journal of Development Research: Social Science Fiction and Development Studies: Expanding the Imaginative and Methodological Horizon Read Trusted Evidence, Informed Policies, Higher Impact—Climate Evidence Reviews Read Distributive Governance and Persistent Inequalities in the Cashew Value Chain of Côte d’Ivoire Read Podcast Picks by Members Transnational Institute: A Fractured World Reflections on Power, Polarity and Polycrisis Listen Global Development Institute: Using Data to Map Forest Changes Listen Institute of Development Studies: Power and Just Transitions: Struggles for a Post Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley Listen Highlight: How the Taliban Regained Power This open access book co-edited by Mona Kanwal Sheik from DIIS, examines how the Taliban were able to regain power in Afghanistan in 2021, some 20 years after the US intervention. It is the result of a thorough review of research and policy publications over the course of 20 years, and is based on open-source data, including threat assessments of the Danish intelligence services. There are multiple explanations in academic and policy reports as to why the Taliban were able to take power despite the efforts expected to prevent this from happening. Based on existing research literature, analyses, studies and reports, the book identifies five factors that are central to understanding the outcome. Read more Highlight: Radical Educators in Grassroots Contexts This open access book co- edited by Mayssoun Sukarieh, King’s College, London, presents a collection of conversations with educators and activists from around the world, who are engaged with practicing and thinking about different forms of radical or alternative education for social change, and who are working in grassroots education spaces, beyond formal schooling and universities. This includes the areas of community, worker, indigenous, environmental, feminist, anti-colonial, agricultural, liberation, theatre and arts education. By bringing together these different perspectives, the book helps to broaden our thinking about what radical education could and should look like in the world today. Read more Thematic Focus: Civil Society / Democracy  What works in environmental advocacy? Development Learning Lab – David Aled Williams – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Airless Democracy: Air Pollution and Voter Turnout Rossello, Giulia, Maria Antonietta Reatini, Gabriele Pinto et al. – UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT Democracy, multilateralism and migration Valerio Simoni – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Institutionalising Backlash: Anti-Gender Frameworks as a Means to Justify Democratic Erosion in the United States Sarah Austin – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Nigeria and the Practice of Whistleblowing – How Not to Mobilize Citizens’ Participation in Anti-Corruption Programme Public Integrity – Abel E. Ezeoha, Akinyinka Akinyoade, David Ehrhardt et al. – African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) International democracy promotion across two waves: from support to protection Democratization – Julia Leininger – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The social contract and collective action: grievances, cleavages, and protests in Tunisia and Lebanon ERF conference papers – Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Everyday extremism: memes and the mainstreaming of extremist narratives around the 2024 European Parliament election Popular Communication – Jullietta Stoencheva, Miriam Haselbacher, Tina Askanius – School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3) Editorial: Strange Activism and the Crisis of Democracy Journal of Resistance Studies – Tiina Seppälä, Mika Luoma-aho, Emmi Aleksiina Holm et al. – Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki Browse the Member Publications Database Premium Members Publication Picks Surveying just transition pathways in global climate policy Climate Policy – Alexia Faus Onbargi, Daniele Malerba – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) From Brazil to the world: Open digital infrastructure for climate cooperation Camila Nadalini de Godoy, Raphael Pouyé, Chloe Teevan – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) The Effects of Capacity Strengthening Interventions on Food Security and Nutrition. Evidence Synthesis of Development Cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa Cornelia Römling, Anna Sting, Laura Kunert, Carolin Wicke – German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) Ecuador: Transformations and adjustment put to the test by a decade of shocks (2015–2025) Benoît Jonveaux – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Uncertainty The Journal of Peasant Studies – Ian Scoones – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Ambivalent solidarities: precarity, belonging, and informal social protection among Nepali diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area of California Manju von Rospatt – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Addressing conflicts of interest and corruption in Indonesia’s energy transition Robert Forster, David Aled Williams, Lakso Anindito, Amanda Cabrejo le Roux – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Seeds and social norms: sorghum seed exchange among smallholder farmers in Northern Ethiopia Ecology & Society – Tsedal Asres Wendmu, Hugo J. de Boer, Clifton Makate, Ola Westengen – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members Leveraging social protection to reduce inequalities in the just transition Audrey Nirrengarten, Isabelle Ensarguet, Anda David, Rawane Yasser – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Aligning AU-EU interests to reshape global governance on peace and security Gustavo de Carvalho, Sara Gianesello, Sophie Desmidt, Steven Gruzd – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) When The Rains Failed: Community Response To Drought Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Mobilising and scaling local climate action 06 March 2026 – Lena-Marie Putz, Paula von Haaren, Axel Berger et al. – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Autonomy and Its Limits: Brazil’s Response to Trump’s Threats GIGA Focus Latin America – Tomas Costa de Azevedo Marques & Filipe Mendonca – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) International cooperation in a neocolonial world: Learning from the GPN experience Fiona Faye, Aram Ziay & Joshua Kwesi Aikins – Global Partnership Network (GPN) Strengthening food security for a resilient and sustainable coffee supply Fernando Rodriguez Camayo – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Gone with the West: How the transatlantic split helps China and forces Europe to rethink its Indo-Pacific strategy Andreas B. Forsby – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Picks from International Partner Networks 2026 Summer School | First Wave of Confirmed Courses Methods Excellence Network (MethodNet) Science advice is under strain and science must reform itself John Heilprin – International Science Council ISC El pensamiento latinoamericano en el siglo XXI Eduardo Devés Valdés & Silvia T. Álvarez (eds.) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO ¿Un mar en calma? Continuidades, transformaciones y desafíos de los activismos feministas jóvenes en América Latina Camila Ponce Lara & Marina Larrondo (eds.) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO |
| Calls Abierto el plazo de recepción de artículos Deadline: 31 March 2026 – Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo (REEDES) Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo (REEDES) Call for Abstracts: 2026 SANORD Conference Deadline: 10 April 2026 Swedish Development Research Network SweDev Call UNITA Advanced Grants on Research Deadline: 17 April 2026 – Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin (CPS) Call for abstracts: Atlas Convention 2026: « From Ideas to Impact: Translating Knowledge into Inclusive Growth, Cape Town, 07-08 September 2926 Deadline: 24 April 2026 Funding for global partnerships in Horizon Europe – Overview of calls Deadlines vary from 13 April 2026 to 23 September 2027 – Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance) See more calls on the EADI Website Opinions Iran War: a turning point for European energy transition policies? Andreas Rüdinger, Ines Bouacida – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) From commitment to coherence: rethinking trade policy for gender equality Amrita Saha, Prachi Agarwal, Amrita Bahri, Millie Walsh Ghomeshi – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) How China can exploit the disruption of international order Sebastian Haug – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Iran: A “no rule” war – where might that lead? Arne Strand – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Comment les Caisses de dépôt peuvent transformer l’épargne africaine en moteur du développement The Conversation: Florian Léon – Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI) Our cities in a changing climate: Why the Dutch local elections matter more than you think Job Zomerplaag – UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT Training Development and International Cooperation Instituto de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional: Universidad del Pais Vasco (HEGOA) Globalisation and Development Instituto de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional: Universidad del Pais Vasco (HEGOA) See more courses and trainings on the EADI website Jobs Supervisory Board members Deadline: 23 March 2026 – Transnational Institute TNI Bando per la copertura di n. 1 posto di Professore di I Fascia ai sensi dell’art. 18, comma 4-ter della legge 240/2010 Deadline: 26 March 2026 – Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (UNIBO) Research Associate UNU-EHS, Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS) programme Deadline: 31 March 2026 – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Visiting PhD Fellowship Deadline: 31 March 2026 – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) University assistant predoctoral Deadline: 12 April 2026 – Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics Deadline: 22 April 2026 – Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna PhD candidate to join the research project Unequal Numbers: The Making of Ethno-Racial Inequality in Brazil Deadline: 11 May 2026 – Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB) See more jobs on the EADI website Opinion continued Bad Bunny’s halftime touchdown: how music becomes a play in the political arena John Gledhill & Carlos Vargas‑Silva – Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID) |