Artikel Development as an Ecosystem: How Aid Programs Can Stimulate Change Socio-political change processes are complex, disruptive, and unpredictable. For this reason, donors such as Germany should initiate more adaptive aid programs. Such programs have broad objectives, flexible resources, and are able to learn. This means moving away from only reporting tangible results at the output level, starting to hold programs accountable for their capacity to adjust, and sustaining long-term partnerships between funders and implementers. Erwin van Veen • 09 May 2017
Artikel No Easy Way Out: Three Trade-offs the German SSR Strategy Needs to Address It is time to go beyond the rhetoric of governance and ownership. A good SSR policy lays out how SSR initiatives can achieve a balance between short-term security- and long-term governance improvements; between operational work and political strategy; and between achieving results and working adaptively. Erwin van Veen • 30 April 2018
