This paper investigated how change outcomes of development cooperation projects can be institutionalized within the beneficiary organization. While a lot of attention has been paid to sustainability in scientific research on issues, projects, and policies related to environmental, industrial,...

The area of women’s empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors to researchers to feminist scholars and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This paper aims to identify the diverse understandings of women’s empowerment in the...

Against the backdrop of the climate finance gap, this paper investigates factors that motivate migrant participation in diaspora bonds tied to climate projects. The empirical study is based on a survey of 1265 responses from migrants in Europe. We employ change theory to study the shift in...

Das zuletzt gestiegene Interesse des Staats und der Gesellschaft an der Beteiligung von Handwerkskammern in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zeigt sich bei der Änderung der Handwerksordnung, in der die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nun einen eigenen Aufgabenbereich der Kammern darstellt. Die...

Software systems are not isolated but socio-technical systems (STS) that are components of broader systems with a human, social or organizational purpose. Socio-technical systems are large-scale systems that include but are not limited to software and hardware but also people, processes, and...