Program

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

08:30 Registration Foyer
09:00

Welcome and Introduction

Stephan Klingebiel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Aram Ziai, International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at University of Kassel

Lars Gerold, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Keynote “Rethinking development cooperation”

Maria Eriksson Baaz, University of Gothenburg

Jenny Kopsch-Xhema, Food Security Center (FSC) at University of Hohenheim and Silke Weinlich, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE): Brief overview on exceed and DIE

Lecture Hall
10:30 Coffee Break Seminar Room
11:00 Parallel Session – Block I
12:30 Lunch Seminar Room
13:30 Parallel Session – Block II
15:00 Coffee Break Seminar Room
15:30 Parallel Session – Block III
17:00 Dinner and Get Together Seminar Room
19:00

Evening Panel "Rethinking development cooperation”

Welcome by Stephan Klingebiel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Keynote speech by Ariane Hildebrandt, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Panel discussion with:

  • Ariane Hildebrandt, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  • Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Aram Ziai, International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at University of Kassel
  • Anke Kurat, VENRO Verband Entwicklungspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen e.V.
  • Cristian Becerra Monroy, Voluntad Organizada AC, Mexico

Gremiensaal of Deutsche Welle

Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn

20:30 Reception Foyer
Parallel Sessions – Block I
11:00 – 12:30

Research panel: SDGs and the future of development cooperation

  • SDGs and the future of development cooperation
    Christopher Scherrer, International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at University of Kassel
  • Integrating sustainability into the labour agenda of the ILO (SDGs)
    Eva Senghas-Knobloch, University of Bremen
  • A future agenda on development effectiveness: multiple policy solutions for effective cooperation
    Heiner Janus, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
  • A new typology for global development: Moving beyond the dichotomy of rich and poor countries
    Svea Koch, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Chair: Mark Furness, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Research panel: Successes, failures and learning in development cooperation (Session 1)

  • Developing sustainable agriculture in Pakistan
    Iqrar Khan, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
  • Gender dynamics of public works in the Wa West District of Ghana
    John Oti Amoah, University of Cape Coast
  • Challenges of introducing technology through development cooperation. Report of 3 years on-field experience in implementing a small-scale solar milk cooling solution in Kenya, Colombia and Tunisia
    Victor Torres Toledo, University of Hohenheim
  • From gender sensitive to gender transformative approaches in extension - The gender model family approach in Sierra Leone
    Andrea Fongar, Georg-August University, Göttingen

Chair: Jan Frank, Food Security Center (FSC) at University of Hohenheim

Discussion panel: Rethinking the why and how of democracy promotion

  • Daniel Nowack, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
  • Katherine (Hao-Fei) Xiong, Governance Support Programme, GIZ in South Africa
  • Noory Okthariza, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia

Chair: Jörn Grävingholt, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Research panel: Development initiatives in the global south?

  • The United Nations as the preferred space for the south?
    Silke Weinlich, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
  • Belt and road initiative as development concept
    Christa Wichterich, University of Kassel
  • Africa beyond Aid: Prospects and challenges of the ghanaian experiment
    Abdallah Tahiru, University of Ghana
  • Ownership in a "post-aid effectiveness’ world? Evidence from two post-conflict states
    Niels Keijzer, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Chair: Joseph Matofari, Egerton University, Kenya

Discussion panel: Data for development

  • Sarah Holzapfel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
  • Johannes Jütting, Paris21
  • Ujjwal Kumar, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), India

Chair: Claudia Schwegmann, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany

Parallel Sessions – Block II
13:30 – 15:00

Discussion panel: Rethinking development cooperation within ecological boundaries: interdependencies, synergies and trade-offs

  • Mukand S. Babel, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • Ulrike Pokorski da Cunha, Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Vinicius Scofield Siqueira, Managing Global Governance Academy

Chair: Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Research panel: Successes, failures and learning in development cooperation (Session 2)

  • Disparities of health service for the poor in the coastal area: does universal health coverage reduces disparities
    Md. Hafiz Iqbal, Government Edward College, Bangladesh
  • What about evidence? Perspectives of Germany’s development cooperation
    Paul Marschall, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
  • Bridging the in equal partners: North-South and South-North
    Andreas Bürkert, University of Kassel
  • Teaching interventions - an effective approach to empower health professionals in developing countries
    Lena Kurtz, Center for International Health (CIH) at the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University

Chair: Günter Fröschl, Center for International Health (CIH) at the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University

Discussion panel: Science cooperation for development?

  • Peter Krahl, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  • Sintayehu Yigrem Mersha, Hawassa University
  • Heike Bauer, DLR Project Management Agency
  • Ana Margarita Martínez Mendoza, Centro de estudios internacionales Gilberto Bosques

Chair: Johanna Vogel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Discussion panel: The future of development research - Emerging voices of the global south?

  • Rory Horner, University of Manchester
  • Susanne von Itter, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
  • Mariano Laplane, University of Campinas – Unicamp
  • Bei Zhang, China Institute of International Studies

Chair: Fabian Scholtes, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Discussion panel: The opportunities of digitalization for sustainable development - Contrasting perspectives from rising power

International participants from the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme

Chair: Wulf Reiners, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Parallel Sessions – Block III
15:30 – 17:00

Research panel: SDGs

  • The SDGs – Latest steps in a long line of international cooperation of development
    Michael Krawinkel, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
  • Overcoming the authoritarian knowledge transfer
    Veronica Encina, Center for International Health (CIH), Chile
  • Universities as agents for development
    Lars Ribbe, Center for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD) at TH Köln – University of Applied Science
  • Development agenda and accomplishment in the light of SDG interactions
    Andreas Haarstrick, Center for Sustainable Water Management (SWINDON) at Technische Universität Braunschweig

Chair: Katja Radon, Center for International Health (CIH) at the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University

Discussion panel: Learning for effectiveness in development cooperation

  • Dorothee Mack, Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR e. V.
  • Jörg Faust, Deval - German Institute for Development Evaluation
  • Mayukh Hajra, Development Alternatives - India

Chair: Stephan Klingebiel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Research panel: Cooperation in higher education

  • Reflections on cooperation among universities in North and South
    Mariano Laplane, University of Campinas - Unicamp
  • Triangular Cooperation for Workers’ Education: Reinforcing Collaboration among State and Non-State Actors
    Padmini Sharma, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
  • Higher education for development: A new format of cooperation with regional “Academic Hubs”
    Bettina Schorr, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Institution building in higher education and its role in the development cooperation
    Lars Gerold, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Chair: Sudeh Dehnavi, Center for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD) at TH Köln – University of Applied Science

Research panel: How post-development matters in practice

  • Accountability vs. depoliticization: Revisiting the anti-politics machine in the light of the World Bank Inspection Panel
    Aram Ziai, International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at University of Kassel
  • Acknowledging development alternatives and local knowledge. The key for revitalising global partnerships (SDG 17)? Reflections on cooperation reform
    Nina van der Puije, University of Kassel
  • “Mete tèt ansanm (Let's put our heads together)” - Explorations of the political potential of Haitian peasant and solidarity groups to shape alternatives to development
    Julia Schöneberg, University of Kassel
  • Structural answers to authoritarian knowledge transfer: Experiences from eight years of a PhD sandwich program
    Günter Fröschl, Center for International Health (CIH) at the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University

Chair: Christa Wichterich, University of Kassel

Research panel: Political economy and governance

  • The political economy of pension reforms in Nigeria: evaluating its institutional trajectory and roles of international policy advisors
    Olusegun Oladeinde, Bells University of Technology, Nigeria
  • Power and resistance: Examining the politics of social protection policymaking in Kenya
    Marion Ouma, University of South Africa
  • Governance of social security in a democratic South Africa: National centralism vis-a-vis local devolution
    Edwin Mutyenyoka, University of Limpopo, South Africa
  • Export-led development and its impact on the heath and labour conditions of workers: A reflection on the apparel industry in El Salvador and palm oil in Colombia
    Daniel Hawkins, Escuela Nacional Sindical, Colombia

Chair: Niels Keijzer, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

08:30 Registration Foyer
09:00

Rethinking development cooperation: Examples from best practice

  • Constanze von Oppeln, Welthungerhilfe
  • Caroline Schmutte, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Manuel Parra, Center for International Health (CIH), Chile
  • Carsten Hellpap, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Christoph Grammer, Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg
Lecture Hall
10:30

Open space

This interactive process serves for networking and the development of new initiatives, research questions and partnerships.

Facilitation: Petra Eickhoff and Stephan G. Geffers (parto gUG Köln)

Lunch will be offered from 12:00 to 14:00

Lecture Hall / Seminar Room
15:30

Panel discussion: The role of Research, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and Think Tanks in changing development cooperation

  • Mariano Laplane, University of Campinas, Brazil
  • Denisse Dali Barragán Sanchez, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico (tbc)
  • Katja Radon, Center for International Health (CIH) at the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University
  • Stefan Bienefeld, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Peter Krahl, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Chair: Wulf Reiners, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Lecture Hall
16:30

Closing remarks

Stephan Klingebiel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Aram Ziai, International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at University of Kassel

Lecture Hall