With its unique multilateral assets, the United Nations Development System (UNDS) should be playing a key role in … assisting governments and other stakeholders with their implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. But this … competing entities, undermining its effective support for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation. It is against that …

one is left behind.The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the World Bank and … the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) worked together to explore ways to implement … the concept of just transition in German development cooperation. The two papers that have resulted from this process …

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in developing … urbanisation and rural development is warranted. To do this, this Discussion Paper identifies seven channels through which … urbanisation affects rural development: i) production and consumption linkages; ii) employment linkages; iii) financial linkages …

Development assistance often fails to achieve institutional change because of a limited consideration of the political … nature of these reforms and the local context. In response, political and adaptive development assistance (PADA) approaches … than mainstream approaches to development assistance. To answer this question, this paper develops a framework by asking …