Remarks: The GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations.
Activities: GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.

Remarks: This is one of the five research institutes of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam and a major international research institute in the areas of human geography, spatial planning and policies, and international development studies, it was founded in 2004 after a merger involving AME (the Amsterdam research centre for the Metropolitan Environment) and AGIDS (the Amsterdam research institute for Global Issues and Development Studies).
Expertise: Urban Geographies of Place and Social Interactions, Urban Space, Institutions and Networks, Space and Economy, Territories, Identities and Representations, Livelihoods, Environment and Governance.

Remarks: Technology and Sustainable Development (TSD) is a department within the Centre for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy, University of Twente.
Activities: TSD provides education at both Bachelors and Masters level on problems related to the role of technology in the development of the South. It also has an extensive research programme relating to governance of technology in the South, and focusing on technology in natural resource management, energy and water. Gender is a cross-cutting theme. In addition to the academic staff, about 15 PhD students, mostly from developing countries, are working on these research topics. The Head of Department is Professor Jon Lovett.

Remarks: The University Center for International Co-operation and Development, CICOPS, was established in 1987. Its aim is to promote co-operation with Developing Countries and stimulate relations between Pavia University and the Universities of Developing Countries. This is achieved by developing all types of cultural, scientific and technical-professional co-operation (public and private) in order to broaden the study of the social and economic problems of these countries and help to solve them.
Activities: collaborates in preparing and managing co-operation plans and projects; promotes cultural, scientific, and technical-professional training of officials and intermediate cadres from both Developing Countries and Italy, also with the aim of helping them join international or Developing Countries bodies; encourages student exchanges between Pavia University and Universities in Developing Countries, with informative and cultural aims or in order to co-operate in emergency actions; it is involved in informing, training and orienting Italian personnel and “civil service” volunteers set to work in Developing Countries; if requested by the Foreign Ministry, the European Union and/or other Bodies, it organises courses and seminars for training, qualifying and updating personnel set to work in co-operation & development departments and offices.

Remarks: ECDPM has been fostering better trade and aid relations between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries since 1986. It deals with the international policies that govern development between the ACP countries and EU member states. Chief among these is the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, signed in June 2000 by 77 ACP countries and 15 EU member states. Our mission is to help make these policies work. It does this by helping individuals and organisations to build their own capacity, so that these stakeholders are well informed and confident to join negotiations and broker the best possible deals for their countries or communities.
Expertise: policy-related research and information; capacity-building approaches hands-on facilitation of dialogue between parties; networking; seminars and conferences .

Remarks: CMI is an independent, non-profit research institution and a major international centre in policy-oriented and applied development research. The geographical focus is Sub-Sahara Africa, Southern and Central Asia, the Middle East, and South America..
Expertise: Human Rights and Democratisation, Peacebuilding, Global Economy and Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Sector Reform, Poverty and Social Transformation, Aid Policy and Impact, Natural Resources

Remarks: At the EPFL, development cooperation involves scores of specialists active in research and teaching in various disciplines. In partnership with their colleagues in emerging and developing countries, they aim to provide scientific and technological solutions to priority issues facing these countries. Focusing on the most pressing issues in the South - environmental degradation, natural and social risks, poverty, pandemics, rampant urbanization, academic education ill-adapted to priority needs, economic inequalities - and on the School's areas of scientific competence, the EPFL's development cooperation banks on scientific excellence and technological innovation. The Cooperation@epfl unit, part of the Vice-Presidency for International Affairs, aims to promote this kind of scientific cooperation actions in all EPFL faculties using all disciplines represented on our campus
Expertise & activities: local, national and international players with the necessary expertise in the monitoring and evaluation of programs/research projects; working together with bilateral and multilateral development cooperation agencies, offering them sectoral and/or global expertise, single discipline or interdisciplinary, scientific and rigorous in the setup of new development projects at the stage of their redefinition

Remarks: FRIDE is a private, independent, non-profit organisation based in Madrid, Spain. Its main objective is to contribute to the consolidation of democracy, peace, respect for human rights, and human development, through the implementation of projects, studies, analysis, publications, debates and public information.
Expertise: Democratisation, Peace and Security Human Rights, Humanitarian Action and Development.

Remarks: The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is one of the leading Think Tanks for development policy world-wide. DIE is building bridges between research and practise and works within international research networks. Since its founding in 1964, DIE has based its work on the interplay between Research, Consulting and Training.

Expertise: Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation; Competitiveness and Social Development; Governance, Statehood and Security; Environmental Policy and Management of Natural Resources; World Economy and Development Financing; Global Governance.

Remarks: IDS is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.
Expertise: Globalisation, Governance Knowledge, Technology and Society Participation, Power and Social Change, Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction.

Remarks: IVO is the Development Research Institute of Tilburg University.
Activities: IVO's mission is to carry out applied socio-economic research, training and capacity building in support of poverty alleviation in developing countries. The strong relation between IVO and Tilburg University is reflected in joint research projects, its location on the campus and the composition of its Board of Governors. The cornerstones of IVO's research are Global Commodity Chains and Development, Institutional Impact Analysis and Macro Accounting for Policy Analysis. In its research IVO attempts to address three basic issues: poverty, income distribution and globalisation.

Remarks: InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH – Capacity Building International, Germany is an organisation for human resources development, further training and dialogue with worldwide operations.
Expertise: Good Governance and Reform processes, peace and security, social development, environment and natural resources, sustainable business development, foreign trade and international relations, regional development and urbanization development education.

Remarks: ISS is the leading centre for higher education and research in development studies on the European continent and one of the oldest and largest in the world.
Expertise: Economics of Sustainable Development, States, Society, World Development, Human Resources and Local Development, Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies.

Remarks: The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is an institution of research and higher education dedicated to the cross-cutting disciplines of international relations and development studies. Born of the 2008 merger of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), it benefits from an expertise and a reputation that go back as far as the 1920s, and the League of Nations, in the case of international relations, and the 1960s, and the post-colonial era and the emergence of the Third World, in the case of development studies.

The Institute, keen to draw on the synergies offered by its two fields of specialisation, offers independent and rigorous analyses of current and emerging global issues with a view to promoting international cooperation and making a contribution to the development of less fortunate societies.

It fulfils its mission through the provision of postgraduate-level teaching (Master and Ph.D.), thematic research on important issues, executive education and the organisation of forums for forward-looking reflection.

Expertise: Development and international cooperation, humanitarian development, inequality, sustainable development, global ecology.

Remarks: WOTRO is the science division within NWO which supports scientific research on development issues, in particular poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its scope includes all low and middle-income countries. For its activities, WOTRO receives substantial funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Expertise:The mission of WOTRO is to initiate, enhance and fund scientific research for the benefit of development and societal issues of local and global concern in developing countries. WOTRO acts at the interface of the Dutch government, the academic world and the arena of development organisations.