17-22 June 2024: Structural Policy Changes in the Global North and their Impacts on the Global South – Implications for Development Research and Practice

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The conference is supported by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Follow-Up Workshops (Online) in November and December 2024

Please find all the information regarding the follow-up workshops for this year's Alumni Conference below:

20th November 2024 (4-6 PM)

Topic
Thematic Cluster II: "Global Division of
Labour and Supply Chains"

Facilitator
Juan José Martinez Badillo

Zoom-Link to Workshop (Meeting-ID: 616 4597 7609)

 

4th December 2024 (4-6 PM)

Topic
Thematic Cluster I: "Climate Change and
Energy Transition"

Facilitator
Tim Schmidt

Zoom-Link to Workshop (Meeting-ID: 653 0464 4570)

 

11th December 2024 (4-6 PM)

Topic
Thematic Cluster III:"Geostrategic Power Shifts"

Facilitator
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wurzel

Zoom-Link to Workshop(Meeting-ID: 618 6318 5166)

 You can also download a PDF version including the Zoom links here.

What this Conference is about

The start of the SDG implementation process (2016-2030) coincides with a number of structural changes in policies and strategies as well as structural shifts in the power constellations between countries and regions of the Global North and the Global South. For example: new policy approaches to climate change, energy transition and the global division of labor (supply chains) as well as geostrategic power shifts as a result of the increasing power of states such as China.

These changes will pose challenges to the implementation of the SDGs for bilateral and multilateral development cooperation: both the new policy approaches of countries in the Global North and the effects of changing power balances may stand in the way of the successful realization of the SDGs. At the same time, new opportunities and possibilities arise for countries of the Global South and development cooperation. The conference will therefore address the following questions:

  • Which obstacles and challenges resulting from these changes may hinder the realization of the SDGs?
  • How can these be overcome by the actors involved?
  • How can new opportunities be identified and used in practice for the successful realization of the SDGs?

The conference will focus on three cluster areas:

  1. Climate Change and Energy transition: Impact of structural policy changes in industrialized countries on climate change and energy transition on the global South.
  2. Global division of labor and supply chains: Impact of structural policy changes on the global division of labor and consequences for the implementation of the SDGs. Often, working and development opportunities of women in the global South primarily are affected, possible contributions of feminist development policy and the promotion of gender equality are discussed.
  3. Geostrategic power shifts: Effects of geostrategic power shifts between groups of countries and political blocs on the economies and societies of the Global South with focus on possible consequences for development cooperation for the realization of the SDGs.

Through case studies and workshops, the conference aims to form creative solutions under the framework of know-how transfer and policy learning.

Agenda

Conference Report

The Conference Report with the key takeaways from the workshops will be available for download after the conference.