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Reform with Impact: How the BMZ Can Meet Its Own Ambition
This article was also published as an opinion piece at Table.Media on February 24, 2026. A great deal is at stake. Over the past five years, the budget of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has been cut by almost 20 percent, while global challenges have grown dramatically. This makes the efficient and effective use of the remaining funds even more important. What demonstrably works also strengthens democratic legitimacy. The German publ
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Achieving the best possible impact in international cooperation with scarce resources - why we should focus on smart buys now
Pandemics, geopolitical crises, and the withdrawal of actors such as the USA present new challenges for international cooperation – while...
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New Momentum for Evidence-Based Development Cooperation - Insights from Wilton Park (UK)
In December, we organized a conference on evidence-based and impact-oriented development cooperation at Wilton Park (UK) to engage with international experts from key implementing regulation and evaluation organizations about strategies for better use of evidence in development cooperation. The final report of the conference has now been published, and we are pleased to share it. Why this conference? Global challenges such as the unequally distributed progress on the Sustaina
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