IAC/EADI Accreditation
The International Accreditation Council for Global Development Studies and Research

In this briefing paper Dr Joost Mönks, secretary of the IAC, summarises the purpose, history and objectives of the IAC and gives an overview of criteria and steps of the accreditation process. To establish criteria tailored to academic Development Studies programmes, a common understanding of the field of Development Studies was needed. Read the paper

Terms of Reference: EADI, the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes takes the leading role in the work on Knowledge Exchange Partnerships which serve to ensure a free flow of information and best practices between research institutions and civil society organisations. Download the tender

On 24 February 2021, 10:00 - 12:30, a group of EADI member institutes hosting PhD programmes will come together to develop criteria for quality management and accreditation criteria for PhD Programmes in Development Studies. The workshop is open for interested programme coordinators. Expressions of interest to participate can be adressed to accreditation@eadi.org.

We are delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the "Master in Global Development Studies” at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås, near Oslo, Norway. The International Accreditation Council for Global Development Studies and Research IAC/EADI wishes to congratulate NMBU on the excellent quality of the programme with its distinctive and dynamic features.

We are delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the Master in Development Studies (MDS) Programme at Centre for Samoan Studies, University of Samoa, by the IAC/EADI International Accreditation Council for Global Development Studies and Research.

The programme  was launched in 2013 aiming at contributing to human resources development in Samoa, supporting the Key Outcome 7 of the Strategy for the Development of Samoa for “Education and training aligned to national human resource development priorities”.

EADI is delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the “Master Degree Programme Management of Development", offered by the Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein (VHL), University of Applied Sciences, in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. IAC/EADI wishes to congratulate Van Hall Larenstein on the excellent quality of the programme with its distinctive and dynamic features.

EADI is delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the “Master International Development Studies” offered by the University of Amsterdam. IAC/EADI wishes to congratulate UvA on the overall excellent quality and unique features of its programme.

The Master International Development Studies programme of the University of Amsterdam is meant to introduce students to development studies as a distinctly multi-disciplinary field. The objectives of the programme include educating students in the history and theories of development, familiarising them with different disciplinary perspectives on development, such as those from sociology, anthropology and human geography, acquainting them with the multi-scalar context of development processes, recognising relations between local, regional, national and global levels and teaching them about interaction and unequal power relations between actors within context-specific institutional environments.

EADI is delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the Master in Interdisciplinary Development Studies (MIDS) offered by the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre Desarrollo (CIDER) of Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. The MIDS offers a two-year graduate programme in development studies in Colombia.

IAC / EADI congratulates UEL on the overall excellent quality and unique features of its MSc programme NGO and Development Management. This established course, which has been running for ten years, examines the central issues facing developing countries in today’s globalised world, giving students the skills for a job in development and the wider sectors.

The aim of the course is to prepare for a career as an informed and critical development practitioner. Students will be equipped with all the practical skills that are demanded by development agencies and will also gain insight across the wider picture, understanding how developing countries can progress and how the poor can be mobilised to escape from the poverty trap.

The Advanced Master in International Development (AMID) programme of the Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) is a one-year dual programme. The starting point for AMID is that positive social change can only be realised in collaboration between different actors such as government, private sector, NGOs and knowledge institutes.

EADI has accredited the “Master’s in Contemporary Development of China”, offered by the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University. The programme welcomes application for the year 2016 / 2017 by 15 June 2016. For scholarships, please check out the SSDPP website (Deadlines 15th March and 15th May).

From 22-25 April the EUSA_ID Mid-term meeting took place at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.

IAC/EADI accredites the Master programme in International Development Studies from the Palacký University in Olomouc

IAC/EADI participates as a quality assurance partner in the EUSA ID mobility programme