Publication

With 2023 moving fast, we take a moment to share with you our achievements in 2022. If we look at the numbers, the EU International Partnerships Academy continued to grow last year. We increased our portfolio with new learning resources and new learning methods, we participated at various public events where we could meet our followers and we continued to be there for the development community. We want to thank our users for taking the Satisfaction Survey last year and we invite you all to discover the Academy last year’s highlights in the report below.

This article provides a macro-sociological analysis of the rise and transformation of entrepreneurship as an ideology in international development discourse over time.

The goal of a better world for all seems harder to reach, with new budgetary pressures, demands to provide regional and global public goods, elevated humanitarian needs, and increasingly complex political settings.

Asia has risen to become an innovation powerhouse, contributing to more than half of world patents. The rise of Asia as an innovation hub has been driven by a few frontier countries that have experienced a sharp increase in digital and computer-related patents, supported by solid R&D spending and a large share of researchers in the labor force.

This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

This paper analyzes the uptake of electric vehicles in Asia and the Pacific and shows how the electrification of transport systems can speed up the transition to a low-carbon future.

The use of drone technology in capital projects is an emerging area that holds promise for growth. Drones are becoming more widely available, and regulatory bodies are gradually allowing their use on a larger scale.

Migration has long been part of Caribbean nations reality. In recent decades, climate change, natural disasters, and shifts in global mobility patterns have reshaped the migration landscape in the Caribbean.

When Covid-19 struck the South African government declared some of the strictest lockdowns worldwide. The impact of lockdowns on the working classes was especially severe.

This report sets out an ambitious agenda to address the major challenges facing children and young people living through conflict and crisis.

Think20 (T20), the official think tank engagement group of the Group of Twenty (G20), was established in 2012 to provide research-based policy recommendations to help G20 countries and partners promote economic resilience and sustainable development. This report explores T20’s work and increasing importance.

This joint ILO-Unicef report on social protection for children outlines the devastating impact of a lack of social protection on child poverty, health, education, nutrition, child marriage and child labour.

This working paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure and trade facilitation on imports and exports in five Central Asian countries and outlines how improving hard and soft infrastructure would help boost regional trade and integration.

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the Global South with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia. Key issues are addressed, such as the current and future threats to plant biodiversity in Ethiopia, as well as the single large or several small conservation approaches and which approach is feasible for Ethiopia.

This book synthesizes the background of foundational conservation views and provides new perspectives and recent strategies within a sustainable development context for coastal species and organic life. Written by a team of international authors with expertise in wide-ranging issues of biodiversity conservation, it analyzes the challenges of conserving marine habitats and species that humanity faces in the Anthropocene era.

Human–wildlife conflict—broadly defined as direct, non-extractive interactions between humans and wildlife with adverse outcomes for one or both parties—is one such phenomenon amplified by climate change. Human–wildlife conflict takes many forms, including direct injury to people and wildlife and damage to personal property or livelihood losses and has dire consequences for social–ecological systems.

Potential exposure of the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) to pharmaceuticals is of high conservation interest, as these compounds can produce catastrophic consequences for populations of avian scavengers.

The Brazilian Amazon contains the world's largest tract of tropical forest, about 22 % of which is within demarcated indigenous territories. Formal governmental recognition of these traditional territories is often a critical deterrent to deforestation, but the relative conservation performance of Indigenous Lands (ILs) under different legal categories and geographic contexts remains poorly understood.

A combination of extremely low rainfall levels and rising seasonal temperatures during the past three years has made Djibouti one of the most arid countries in the world.

This report presents updated findings regarding intentions of refugees from Ukraine across Europe, in-depth analysis of the factors and drivers behind their decisions, and key insights into enabling factors of refugees’ intentions, with the goal of informing advocacy, programming and decision-making of all stakeholders.