On 22 August 2017, the EADI General Assembly will take place in Bergen, Norway. Members of EADI are cordially invited to attend. The assembly is part of the EADI NORDIC 2017 conference.

Members have been invited by mail to the General Assembly, including an access to the documents for the assembly. Please contact our Secretariat for an access to the site, if you have not received the information.

2017 is a strategic year for the Association: the General Assembly will take place on 22 August in Bergen, Norway, and a new Work Programme 2017 – 2020 will be presented by a new EADI President. For this reason, we held a Directors’ meeting already in March 2017, in order to grant space to thorough strategic discussions on topics that EADI will deal with in the next five years. We combined this year’s Directors‘ meeting with a “Bonner Impuls” on “European Development Policies and Aid Effectiveness in light of the Sustainable Development Goals: Do we need a shared impact and evaluation agenda?”, cordially hosted by the Deputy Mayor of the City of Bonn Reinhard Limbach in the Old Town Hall.

Thanks to the excellent venue and the excellent organization by our host, the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), we could experiment with a new format for our Directors’ Meeting, a so-called world café. In various groups, we discussed strategic avenues for EADI in the following...

Authors and editorial board members from developing countries are underrepresented in elite journals in the field of development studies, a new study has found. According to the study’s coauthors, although some studies have accessed representation of authors from developing countries in the social sciences, little is known about those focusing on the field of development studies.

“Underrepresentation from the developing world in research means that we are losing a perspective including the lived experiences of scientists from the South.” Jemimah Njuki, International Development Research Centre.

The purpose and scope of this workshop is to present findings from a two-years study on the impacts of social protection in Ghana and Kenya (SHPIG) and to exchange knowledge and ideas with policy experts on the translation of these findings into policy and practice.