2013Annual Report International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague

ISS is the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam

ISS in a nutshell

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The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague is

part of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

It is a graduate institute of policy-oriented critical social science,

founded in 1952 and able to draw on sixty years of experience.

ISS is a highly diverse international community of scholars and students

from the Global South and North, which brings together people,

ideas and insights in a multi-disciplinary setting which nurtures, fosters

and promotes critical thinking and conducts innovative research into

fundamental social problems.

Key to the ISS philosophy and practice is the wish to make a contribution

to achieving social justice and equity on a global level. The strong

partnerships with organizations and individuals in developing countries

make up a network in which the co-creation of knowledge and an

integrated approach to research and teaching can flourish and remain

societally relevant.

ISS shares expertise with a wider public by providing high-level policy

advice, serving as a platform for debate and the exchange of ideas

and engaging in consultancy.

Highlights

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Interview with Professor Leo de Haan, ISS Rector

2013 Lots of positive change new Majors & new Research programmes

In many ways 2013 can be considered a year of repositioning for ISS. We ran the new Majors in our MA programme for the first time, and the first responses from students are very positive. The new Majors still give students the opportunity to specialize if they wish but are also an attractive proposition for those who want a broader study programme.

2013 was also the first full year in which the four new Research programmes were operational. These programmes were designed to create more focus and cohesion so as to better position our research activities and increase our success rate in gaining much-needed external funding.

Restructuring support staffISS is facing financial challenges, as further cuts have been announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2013 we completed an internal reorganization of our support services in order to increase efficiency and reduce costs. I am very happy that we were able to avoid compulsory redundancies. I feel confident that the new structure will give us the basis we need for the challenges ahead. Our support services have now been integrated into the broader university organization.

MA and PhD programmes As a result of steps taken several years ago, the number of PhD researchers increased considerably in 2013. Our next step will be to expand supervisory

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capacity to make sure that quality supervision is available to all of those who have joined us to complete a PhD programme. A number of new professors and associate professors will be appointed to meet this need. We are also working to build strong networks with others outside the institute. The establishment of double degree programmes at both PhD and MA level is a good example of that.

We have made sure that all PhD candidates are embedded in a Research programme to ensure that they will have an intellectual home for the duration of their stay at ISS.

The MA programme in Development Studies remains an important part of what we do. We have started to diversify this part of our teaching programme by creating different pathways for students. The Repoa model is a good example: students from Tanzania do part of their training in Tanzania so that their period of residence in The Hague can be reduced from 15.5 months to one year. Another example of this flexible approach is the 2-year Atlantis Transatlantic Master Programme in International

Security and Development Policy, which is jointly offered by ISS, the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in the US and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. I foresee the development of more such flexible pathways in the near future.

Agenda for development cooperationWe have a strong relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in particular with the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. After a round of breakfast meetings on the future of development cooperation, an important conference on the future of international cooperation was held at ISS in early 2013. The participants came from a wide range of organizations: from the WTO and the African Development Bank to universities and ministries, NGOs and the private sector. Minister Lilianne Ploumen attended the conference and was most appreciative of the ‘building blocks’ we offered to provide input for her new policy. In my view, ISS has had a clear influence on this policy, especially when it comes to the importance of inclusive development (such as

access to health, to education, to

the labour market) – development for many. This is progress indeed. We are working hard to increase our impact on the role of the private sector in development. Our aim is to push private sector initiatives in the direction of inclusive growth, for example through social responsibility. We are proud that a number of ISS staff members are involved in committees and advisory bodies for foreign policy and development cooperation, in areas such as sexual rights and the rule of law.

Cooperation with others ISS believes in the strength of networks and in sharing knowledge and insights. We work with universities and research institutes in other parts of the world, concentrating on the development of collaborative teaching programmes and providing access to PhD level education for partner institutes wishing to offer advanced development opportunities to their staff and students. A wonderful example of research cooperation was the joint ISS/CDS (Centre for Development Studies) conference held in Trivandrum (India) early 2013, as the final

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activity of an international research project on gender and migration. Within our own Erasmus University Rotterdam, we participate in the Global Health Initiative and the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities. ISS is also involved in the LDE alliance between Leiden University, Delft University and Erasmus University. Within LDE, ISS has taken a leading role in a new research centre on ‘Frugal Innovation and Technology Networks with Africa’.

Some 2013 highlights In November 2013, Erasmus University hosted the official celebration of its 100th

anniversary. We are proud that development expert Robert Chambers was awarded an Honorary Doctorate on behalf of ISS as part of these celebrations. In 2013, ISS also launched the KidsRights Index and ISS students participated in a major conference in The Hague on ‘The Future of Peace and Justice’. And there is much more. This Annual Report offers you an overview of our major activities and achievements in 2013.

As always, I considered the opening of the MA programme in September and the MA graduation in December to be real highlights. So many people, so many expectations, so many nationalities. It is a huge privilege to be the Rector of ISS. Not many of my colleagues in the world have the honour of leading a community made up of staff and students from more than 50 countries!

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ISS events in 2013

Conference on the Future of International CooperationIn March 2013 a conference on the Future of International Cooperation was held, in close cooperation with SID (Society for International Development), FMO (Netherlands Development Finance Company) and NCDO, the Dutch expertise and advisory centre for citizenship and international cooperation. Key speakers included Lilianne Ploumen (Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation), Pascal Lamy (World Trade Organization), Donald Kaberuka (African Development Bank), Bert Koenders (United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire) and Joris Voorhoeve (The Hague University of Applied Sciences).

This conference was the closing event of a stakeholder consultation process designed to bring together ideas for a new agenda on international cooperation – Beyond ODA: towards a new perspective on international cooperation for development: new actors, new instruments. In autumn 2012 three sessions were held, with representatives from government, civil society, and

the academic and business communities in the Netherlands. The final session of the conference was devoted to discussing building blocks for a new form of international cooperation beyond ODA, based on inclusive and sustainable economic growth, social development and the urgency of people in civil society.

Dies Natalis ISS On the occasion of the 61st birthday of ISS, celebrated on 8 October 2013, Alan F. Fowler, Professor of Civil Society and International Development, delivered his valedictory lecture entitled Civic Driven Change: Where From, Where Now, Where Next? The lecture described the results of six years of effort to design a set of spectacles to better look for answers to the why, when, where and how of people taking and resisting initiatives to change the society they live in, for good or ill. Looking ahead, Professor Fowler explained the next steps within the Civic Innovation Research Initiative (CIRI) as a new multi-disciplinary programme at ISS, initially involving strands of politics, markets and sexuality.

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Honorary Doctorate for Professor Robert Chambers On the 100th anniversary of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Professor Robert Chambers was awarded an Honorary Doctorate during the centennial’s official celebration at the Dies Natalis in November 2013. This memorable event was attended by HRH Princess Beatrix.

Robert Chambers is one of the most influential international development studies scholars and writers of the past generation. For the last 40 years he has been a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in England. He became a leading figure in the field of development management in the 1970s, publishing several books on the management of land settlement schemes and much work on rural development management in general. These works drew on ten to twelve years of experience as an administrator, lecturer and researcher in Africa, to which he later added five or six years of research in India.

Professor Chambers has a special talent for expressing insights in simple terms that are able to reach wide audiences – for example in reminders about the great relevance of seasonality (wet, dry, cold and hot seasons) to all aspects of rural living and rural research, and in warnings about the low relevance of super-sophisticated methods of planning and assessment, which are used after the real political decisions about proposed investments have been made. He has suggested that, in many cases, simple is optimal.

Seminar on the Challenges and Potentials of African Economic Transformation: Can Economic Transformation be Inclusive?On 13 June, in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ISS, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) organized a

Honorary Doctor Professor

Robert Chambers

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seminar to mark the launch of its flagship publication, the African Transformation Report. At the seminar, ACET presented a preview of the report and the participants discussed how inclusive growth relates to transformation.

International Conference on Indonesia Development The International Conference on Indonesia Development 2013 was organized by Indonesian students at ISS. The conference, held in September, was designed as a hub for Indonesian scholars, policy-makers (executive and legislative), professionals and the public. It was an exciting opportunity for Indonesian scholars to exchange ideas through interactive and comprehensive discussions. The conference aimed to create a blueprint for ideal Indonesian development. One on the keynote speakers was Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch Minister for Development and International Cooperation.

Dick de Zeeuw lecture: Food is a Serious IssueOn 5 September 2013 Professor Louise O. Fresco gave the annual Dick de Zeeuw lecture, entitled Food is a Serious Issue. She spoke about how consumers are becoming increasingly worried about food safety and large-scale industrial production. Feeding 9 billion inhabitants of the earth is possible if we apply our best scientific knowledge and the best socioeconomic practices. Yet the support for evidence-based solutions is eroding, so far mostly in the rich countries, leading to inconsistent fragmented policies and confusion.

The Dick de Zeeuw Foundation was founded in memory of Dick de Zeeuw, a former Dutch politician. The Foundation aims to stimulate ideas concerning the importance of agriculture for a sustainable society, and to promote attention to issues concerning development and environment.

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ISS and Nuffic celebrate 60 years of cooperationIn 2013 ISS and Nuffic celebrated 60 years of cooperation. In 1952 Nuffic established ISS in the Noordeinde Palace, which then housed both organizations.

After 25 years in the palace both Nuffic and ISS moved to Hotel De Wittebrug in The Hague, and in 1993 they moved to two adjacent buildings on the Kortenaerkade. Although there is no formal organizational link between the organizations, they co-operate closely on the Niche, NFP and other programmes.

To mark 60 years of common history and cooperation, ISS presented Nuffic with a work by the Flemish artist Jan Verschueren. ISS received a watercolour of Noordeinde Palace, painted by Leo Wisselink.

Leo de Haan receives the Wisselink watercolour from Nuffic’s new Director, Freddy Weima.

The artwork by Jan Verschueren is in the background.

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New Prince Claus Chairholder

Jumoke Oduwole

Dr Jumoke Oduwole from Nigeria was appointed to the Prince Claus Chair in 2013. She will hold this position for a period of two years (September 2013 – September 2015), working on research on the Right to Development. Oduwole aims to define this theme in the African context and in relation to trade and human rights.

Dr Jumoke Oduwole is a talented researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos in Nigeria. Her current research interests include International Trade and Development and China in Africa, and she is an elected member of the University of Lagos Senate. Oduwole was recently selected as one of 25 fellows in the inaugural 2012/2013 ‘Leadership for Change in Africa’ programme (West Africa), an initiative by the Private Investors for Africa (PIA).

She is a member of the BMW Foundation Global Young Leaders Network and currently sits on the Board of the ‘Know Your Constitution’ Initiative pioneered by a United Nations Young Ambassador

for Peace, one of her former students. She also assists the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) research department in an advisory capacity.

The Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity was established by Utrecht University and ISS in early 2003 in honour of Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926-2002).

Research

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Nationalization of natural resources, cooperation and conflict in Latin AmericaFollowing a successful mid-term review, in 2013 Dr Murat Arsel and Dr Lorenzo Pellegrini submitted a successful project proposal to NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) to upscale the ‘Nationalization of natural resources, cooperation and conflict in Latin America’ project. The new grant brings the total value of the project to €1,300,000. Partners in the project are Hivos (the Netherlands and Bolivia), Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) and LIDEMA (Bolivia). In addition, Murat Arsel and Lorenzo Pellegrini were awarded a grant by the Rockefeller Foundation to host a workshop at the Bellagio Center, for academics and representatives of civil society working on extractive industries in Latin America.

The workshop (early 2014) aims to bring together the CoCooN project team, activists from Latin America and NGO representatives from Europe to discuss and share their progress and the challenges they encounter, with a view to maximizing the impact of findings and the sustainability of our activities. They will also explore potential new partnerships and possibilities for expanding the project beyond 2016.

Presentation of OECD report together with FMOIn July, the OECD report Perspectives on Global Development 2013: Industrial Policies in a Changing World was presented at ISS.

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New research centre on ‘Frugal Innovation in Africa’ ISS is taking a leading role in a new research centre on Frugal Innovation in Africa. The main question for this new research centre (a joint venture between the Universities of Leiden and Delft and Erasmus, LDE), is to address the conditions under which frugal innovations are more likely to offer development opportunities for producers and consumers in Africa.Through re-engineering, re-inventing or stripping down high-value consumer products and dramatically lowering their unit consumer price, a significantly extended range of products is made affordable for the roughly four billion consumers at the Bottom of the Pyramid, of whom about 500 million live in Africa. Examples include:• Tata’s simplified water purifier that provides poor

people with safe drinking water;• Unilever’s OMO sachets that contain small

amounts of detergent specifically for hand washing in cold water;

• Low-cost solar lighting (Philips) that can be used in places with no electricity.

While these examples show developmental potential, such frugal innovations can also lead to increased environmental damage and more exploitative labour conditions if the ‘stripping down’ means undercutting existing environmental and labour standards.

Health Insurance and Access to Health A symposium on Health Insurance and Access to Health was jointly organized by Partos (umbrella organization for international cooperation) and the Netherlands Health Insurance Platform for the Poor (HIP) in July 2013, supported by the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity and ISS.

The purpose of the symposium was to exchange knowledge on new developments in health financing and access to health care in developing countries. Professor Stella Quimbo (Prince Claus Chairholder 2011-2013) and Professor Michael Grimm (Development Economics, University of Passau) contributed new academic insights to the symposium.

What is LDE? The Executive Boards of Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University will invest in nine initiatives that aim to spearhead more intensive cooperation between the three universities. The new research centre on Frugal Innovation in Africa is one of these initiatives. Peter Knorringa will co-ordinate this new LDE research centre on behalf of ISS, supported by David Wubs-Mrozewicz. The principal co-investigators from the other two universities are Dr André Leliveld (Africa Study Centre in Leiden), and Professor Cees van Beers (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management in Delft).

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In 2013, ISS reorganized and strengthened its research activities across four themes. These are organized into four research programmes:

• Economics of Development and Emerging Markets

• Civic Innovation Research Initiative• Globalization, Governance and Social Justice • Political Economy of Resources, Environment

and Population

The mission of ISS is to create and share state-of-the-art critical knowledge in relation to global issues in the areas of international development, social justice and equity.

ISS research focuses on studying political, economic and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East and transition economies. The Institute explores new developments in North-South and South-South relationships and the role of the BRICS countries, especially in relation to globalization and development.

ISS research is accessible to the academic community in the Global South, and attempts to influence policy-makers and practitioners.

Research programmes

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Economics of Development and Emerging Markets

The Economics of Development and Emerging Markets research programme consists of 10 economists and 20 to 25 PhD researchers. The point of departure is the observation that three-quarters of the global poor are not in developing countries but in emerging markets. This challenges the traditional concepts of development, including poverty reduction targets and other Millennium Development Goals. Open to other disciplines and embedded in a leading European development studies institute, the research programme provides an economic perspective on development processes and structural change all around the globe.

The main achievements in 2013 include 3 major grants, 7 A-journal articles, increased supervision of an additional 11 PhD students, integration of PhDs into the research programme, significant success in publications during the PhD trajectory, and concrete valorization including testimonies in Dutch Parliament and appearances on Dutch television.

Natascha Wagner organized the spring seminar series Applied Microeconomics with seminars by Marrit van den Berg (Wageningen), Simone Bertoli (CERDI), Petter Lundborg (Lund University), Ralitza Dimova (Manchester), Sven Neelsen (iBMG), Nina Hansen (Groningen), Remco Oostendorp (VU), and Luisa Corrado (Università degli Studi di Roma).

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2013 IIPPE Fourth Annual Conference ’Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic Strategies’ In July 2013 the IIPPE (International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy) Fourth Annual Conference in Political Economy took place at ISS. The conference, coordinated by Dr Susan Newman, brought together scholars from all strands of political economy. These scholars sought to engage in debate with political parties and progressive organizations in order to explain the incidence of struggles, and how they might best be supported in bringing about broader, deeper and more unified responses to the economic crisis. 300 people from more than 30 countries across 6 continents participated in 70 parallel sessions. There was also a side event, a one-day workshop on Marxist Political Economy involving ISS students.

The autumn seminar series of this research programme started in October with a well-attended seminar by World Bank economist Biju Rao on the topic of Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? Later in the year Binyam Afewerk Demena presented FDI and Productivity Spillover outcomes in Developing Countries: What a Meta-Analysis reveals is a new or old evidence?, Sara Lazzaroni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) presented Misfortunes never come singly: shocks and child malnutrition in rural Senegal and Zelalem Yilma Debebe spoke about Analysing Risk and Adverse Selection using Subjective Expectations of Health Expenditure: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.

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Governance, Globalization and Social Justice

The Governance, Globalization and Social Justice research programme aims to produce internationally leading, socially committed and societally relevant research outcomes on issues of governance, explicitly from the perspective of social justice. More specifically, the 16 members of the research programme and 28 PhD researchers study how and to what extent particular governance arrangements help or hinder the achievement of social justice goals.

In 2013, the programme started research activities in three main areas:

1 Climate change governanceIn 2013 the first steps were taken towards developing a research project on climate change governance. Various researchers participated in a two-day workshop with Professor Asunción Lera St. Clair, Research Director at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo. The objective of the research project is to undertake joint initiatives with CICERO on the governance of climate change.

2 The political economy of crises: continuity and change

In 2013 a working group prepared ideas for a research project on the political economy of crises. The first concrete initiative, led by Dr Karim Knio and Dr Jeff Handmaker with Anna Jüngen, was to organize a series of seminars entitled Don’t waste a good crisis, as part of the ISS Development Research Seminar series. The seminar series will run from January until June 2014 and will feature many prominent speakers.

3 Migration and social justiceResearch on migration in 2013 included a variety of initiatives. The Migration, Gender and Social Justice programme, led by Dr Thanh-Dam Truong and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), was concluded. It resulted in the publication of the book Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Insecurity. Furthermore, Dr Helen Hintjens and Dr Karin Astrid Siegmann obtained a grant from the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative for a pilot study on the health situation of undocumented migrants in Rotterdam and The Hague.

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KidsRights IndexIn November 2013 ISS presented the first KidsRights Index. This index is the first to provide an insight into how countries all over the world score in the field of implementing children’s rights in five different domains: the right to life, health, education, protection and child rights environment. The initiators of this index are Erasmus School of Economics, KidsRights and ISS. The aim of the index is to bring children’s rights to the attention of a wide public and support their further implementation. There are still many places in the world that do not comply properly with the rights as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The KidsRights Index therefore provides an insight into the status of each country and forms the basis for making concrete recommendations.

PhD defence Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled In Pursuit of Hegemony: Politics and State Building in Sri Lanka, in May 2013. The PhD thesis problematizes the issue of Sri Lanka’s state building by focusing on the broader state-in-society relations and privileging hegemonic formations in Sinhalese politics throughout history and in the contemporary period.

The KidsRights Foundation took the initiative to

develop an index that takes a scientific approach

to charting the status of the implementation of

children’s rights worldwide. The Erasmus School

of Economics and ISS were approached to help

create the KidsRights Index.

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Political Economy of Resources, Environment and Population

The Political Economy of Resources, Environment and Population research programme investigates the ways in which resource scarcities are created and contested, particularly in contexts of unequal access, poverty and social exclusion.

Within the framework of climate change and environmental, food and energy crises, the emergence of new hubs of global capital, and demographic transitions, the programme pays particular attention to how agrarian, food and environmental policies shape the political economy of rural areas and their social policies, population and gender dynamics.

This translates to the interrelated concerns of the 14 staff members and 24 PhD researchers in the areas of:• Land, water, food, energy, biodiversity and

extractive industries; processes of generational transition, in relation to children and youth.

• Changing forms of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion (amongst others from a gender perspective) in the context of population transitions such as migration and urbanization.

• Recent initiatives around popular alternatives such as food sovereignty and agro-ecology.

The research programme encompasses two inter-linked fields (or centres of gravity) relating to sustainability and human development:• Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies,

concerned with agrarian change, food and energy crises, resource conflicts, conservation and natural resources, and environmental degradation and climate change, as well as emerging popular alternatives such as food sovereignty and the national and transnational social movements that spearhead these.

• Critical Research in Social Policy, concerned with poverty, inequality and marginalization, gender power relations, children and youth, socioeconomic security, social provisioning, population dynamics, and social inclusion.

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Grants and projectsIn both PER research lines there has been a clear shift – from participation in large capacity building projects or advisory services with a research spin-off, towards proper research funding (NWO, KNAW, EU) in combination with projects that have a much clearer research component (funded by the World Bank, UNDP, EC, etc.).

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Civic Innovation Research Initiative

The Civic Innovation Research Initiative is a research programme exploring how organizations and individuals mobilize to change their societies. It focuses on how they co-shape political, economic and cultural trends in pursuing the common interest whilst respecting differences.

The 17 staff members and 19 PhD researchers look beyond development theories and policy frameworks which tend to emphasize structure, or actors themselves that overly stress the key role of charismatic change agents. The programme aims to build up a vibrant intellectual home that can take on board both academic and activist concerns relating to citizenship struggles and identities. This approach relates to civil action for generational and gender equality, for democratic rights, and for economic justice in development.

CIRI’s analysis of and support for civic innovation recognizes the importance of knowledge production led by researchers and activists working to change the development arena. Based at ISS, with its history of original research and public engagement, this programme has three core strands which focus specifically on civil engagement in: 1 market2 politics3 sexuality

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CIRI ConferenceOne of the major events of the research programme was the conference on Theories and Practice in Civic Innovation: Building bridges among politics, markets and gender/sexuality, held in October 2013.

Secretariat Task Team CSOFor a period of three years (until the end of 2016) ISS will host a Secretariat to support the Task Team on Civil Society Organization (CSO) development effectiveness and enabling environment. A contract was signed to this purpose between ISS and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) in December 2013.

The Task Team is a multi-stakeholder body which aims to advance norms and the implementation of international commitments made at the Accra and Busan High Level Forums in relation to civil society, aid and development.

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ISS has had a Phd programme for more than 30 years. It has awarded over 125 PhDs to students from all over the world, and their research has contributed to the capacity building of universities, research institutions and government policy bodies in developing countries.

By 31 December 2013 there were 97 PhD researchers enrolled in the PhD programme, 32 (33%) of whom had ISS-MA pre-education.

The PhD programme is a 4-year programme which includes coursework and on average one year of fieldwork. The dissertation is written in English.

The PhD researchers are all integrated into one of the research programmes:• Economics of Development and Emerging

Markets • Governance, Globalization and Social Justice• Political Economy of Resources,

Environment and Population • Civic Innovation Research Initiative

ISS PhD programme

This embedding provides an intellectual home as well as an organizational home for all PhD researchers. The four research programmes hold regular meetings with all researchers, organize their own seminar series, workshops and conferences, and write joint funding proposals. Some have their own working paper series, and they develop other research activities into which the PhD researchers are now fully integrated.

Another policy change closely related to the shift to four research programmes is that the admission process for PhD candidates has become more decentralized. Applicants need to indicate which research programme they would like to join. After a check to ensure that they meet the general admission requirements, their proposals are assessed by the research programme concerned.

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The Research Degree Committee The Research Degree Committee is responsible for implementing the PhD programme.

The ISS staff members in the RDC in 2013 were:• Professor Irene van Staveren, Chair• Dr Jun Borras• Professor Wil Hout (until April 2013)• Professor Des Gasper (from April 2013)

The PhD researchers have two representatives in the Research Degree Committee.

11th Development Dialogue – Bridging Voices The Development Dialogue, organized annually by ISS PhD researchers, aims to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research by young scholars and doctoral candidates in different fields of development studies. In October 2013 the event hosted more than 30 international speakers, with the aim of opening both formal and informal spaces for all to contribute to the debate of bridging voices in development.

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Name ISS promotor Country Thesis title Date

Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits

Salih Sri Lanka In pursuit of hegemony: politics and state building in Sri Lanka

23 May 2013

Sandra Sunanto Van Dijk Indonesia The effects of modern food retail development on consumers, producers, wholesalers and traditional retailers: the case of West Java

10 September 2013

Agnes Corradi Helmsing Brazil Evolution of business start-ups in south-eastern Brazil: pathways of learning

18 September 2013

Richard Ameyan Ampadu

White Ghana Finding the middle ground: tenure reforms and land claims negotiability in rural Ghana

20 September 2013

Holly Alexandra Ritchie

Helmsing UK Negotiating tradition, power and fragility in Afghanistan. Institutional innovation and change in value chain development

26 September 2013

Frew Mengistu Van Dijk Ethiopia Institutional interfaces and actors’ behaviour in transitional real estate markets of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

19 December 2013

Diederik de Boer Van Dijk The Netherlands

Local sustainable development and conservation? Research into three types of tourism partnerships in Tanzania

19 December 2013

Public defences 2013

Holly Alexandra Ritchie received her degree

with distinction (cum laude). Her thesis was

on Negotiating Tradition, Power and Fragility

in Afghanistan. Institutional Innovation and

Change in Value Chain Development.

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PhD defences to end of 2013

Number of defences

Number with Distinction

2010 and before 106 6

2011 8

2012 11

2013 7 1

Total 132 7

PhD programme

A total of 26 PhD researchers entered the programme in 2013

17 Researchers, full-time, resident

7 Researchers, part-time

1 Researcher, full-time, non-resident

1 Researcher, late entry (started at other institutes but doing the final phase and public defence at ISS)

PhD researchers per research programme

25 Economics of Development and Emerging Markets

28 Governance, Globalization and Social Justice

24 Political Economy of Resources, Environment and Population

19 Civic Innovation Research Initiative

Gender of PhD researchers

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Entrance to PhD programme (2011, 2012 and 2013)

23 201170%

78%

69%

13%

19%

27%

17%

3%

4%

32 2012

26 2013

Full-time Part-time Late entrance

Nationality PhD researchers

7%NORTH AMERICA

17%LATIN AMERICA

39%AFRICA

32%ASIA

5%EUROPE

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Research Seminars

Research seminars are held frequently at ISS. There are two kinds of seminars:

Development Research Seminars (DRS) Presenting cutting-edge research on development studies by noted scholars from around the world.

The seminars generally last for one and a half hours, allowing approximately 45 minutes for presentation, with the other half available to engage with the audience in discussion and debate.

In 2013 the DRS included the Spring-Summer Series ‘Why Sex Counts’ and the Autumn-Winter Series ‘Bodies in Resistance’, organized by the newly-formed Sexuality Research Initiative (SRI).

The series Why Sex Counts aimed to readdress what sexuality and sex mean, not just as a subtext to development but as an important entry point through which to understand development studies.

Under the title Bodies in Resistance the series continued the debate on why sexuality and gender are integral to development studies showing how the body, sexualized and desexualized, is embedded in development discourse.

Research in Progress Seminars (RIPS) RIPS provide an informal venue for presentations of ongoing research by ISS scholars and other scholars from the wider development studies community. In 2013 ISS hosted around 40 RIPS on a wide range of development-related topics.

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Publications

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Natural disaster impacts, factors of resilience and development. A meta-analysis of the macroeconomic literature by Sara Lazzaroni and Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Indiaby Pradeep Panda, Arpita Chakraborty, David M. Dror and Arjun S. Bedi

Revisiting gender mainstreaming in international development. Goodbye to an illusionary strategyby Ria Brouwers

Locating food sovereignty: geographical and sectoral distance in the global food system by Martha Jane Robbins

The promise of transformation through participation: an analysis of Communal Councils in Caracas, Venezuela by Juan Carlos Triviño Salazar

The ISS Working Paper series includes work in progress which seeks to elicit comments and generate discussion. The series is about academic research by staff, PhD participants and visiting fellows, and award-winning research papers by graduate students.

ISS Working Papers: General series 2013Self-reported healthcare-seeking behaviour in rural Ethiopia. Evidence from clinical vignettesby Anagaw Mebratie, Ellen van de Poel, Zelalem Debebe, Degnet Abebaw, Getnet Alemu and Arjun S. Bedi

Male, Migrant, Muslim. Identities and entitlements of Afghans and Bengalis in a South Delhi neighbourhood by Madhura Chakraborty

One hundred years of solitude, accumulation and violence: a comparative historical analysis of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta Valley by María Eugenia Bedoya Arias

ISS Working Papers 2013

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Critical learning episodes in the evolution of Brazilian business start-ups. A theoretical and analytical toolby Ariane Agnes Corradi

Coping with shocks in rural Ethiopiaby Zelalem Yilma, Anagaw Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Degnet Abebaw, Marleen Dekker, Getnet Alemu and Arjun S. Bedi

Land governance of suburban areas of Vietnam. Dynamics and contestations of planning, housing and the environment by Joop de Wit

What is unpaid female labour worth? Evidence from the Time Use Studies of Iran in 2008 and 2009by M. Ghazi Tabatabaei, N. Mehri and M. Messkoub

Spaghetti and noodles. Why is the developing country differentiation landscape so complex? by Djalita Fialho and Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

“Shifting in” migration control. Universalism and immigration in Costa Rica by Koen Voorend

Analyzing Local Institutional Change. Comparing small farmer participation in high value export chains in Uganda and Peru by A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing

A meta-analysis of economic diplomacy and its effect on international economic flows by Selwyn J.V. Moons and Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Macroeconomics of natural disasters. Meta-analysis and policy options by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk & Sara Lazzaroni

Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes. A systematic review by Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Getnet Alemu and Arjun S. Bedi

Neither Here nor There. An Overview of South-South Migration from both ends of the Bangladesh-India Migration Corridor by Jolin Joseph and Vishnu Narendran

South-South Migration. A review of the literature by Beatriz Campillo Carrete

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Border Studies. Theoretical approaches, themes of inquiry, and suggestions for future work by Stefania Donzelli

Climate change and migration. A review of the literature by Oscar Gómez How portable is social security for migrant workers? A review of the literature by Nurulsyahirah Taha, Mahmood Messkoub, and Karin Astrid Siegmann

Tracing the welfare and livelihood choices of farm households following displacement through land recovery in Vietnam by Joop de Wit Healthcare seeking behaviour among self-help group households in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India, by Wameq A. Raza, Pradeep Panda, Ellen van de Poel, David Dror and Arjun Bedi

Demographic and social trends affecting intergenerational relations in the MENA regionby Mahmood Messkoub

From futures markets to the farm-gate. Assessing real price transmission along coffee chainsby Hannah Bargawi and Susan Newman

Enrolment in Ethiopia’s Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme by Anagaw Derseh, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Getnet Alemu and Arjun S. Bedi

Human trafficking, globalisation and transnational feminist responses by Thanh-Dam Truong

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Indices of Social DevelopmentISS is the host of Indices of Social Development (ISD). This is a system that includes 200 indicators, synthesizing them into a usable set of measures to track how different societies perform along six dimensions of social development:

• Civic Activism, measuring use of media and protest behaviour.

• Clubs and Associations, defined as membership in local voluntary associations.

• Intergroup Cohesion, which measures ethnic and sectarian tensions, and discrimination.

• Interpersonal Safety and Trust, focusing on perceptions and incidences of crime and personal transgressions.

• Gender Equality, reflecting gender discrimination in home, work and public life.

• Inclusion of Minorities, measures levels of discrimination against vulnerable groups such as indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees, or lower caste groups.

In 2013 ISD published the following Working Paper: Diversity, Inclusiveness and Social Cohesion, by Zahid Pervaiz, A.R. Chaudhary, Irene van Staveren

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Publications by ISS staff

A selection of the publications by ISS staff in 2013: Articles, Books/Monographs/Edited Books and Journal editorship in the A and B categories.

Bergeijk, P.A.G. van (2013) Earth Economics: An introduction to Demand Management, Long-Run Growth and Global Economic Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Bergeijk, P.A.G. van and C. van Marrewijk (2013) ‘Heterogeneity and Development: An Agenda’, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 22(1): 1-10.

Biekart, K. (ed.) (2013) Development and Change. Special Issue: Forum 2013. Vol 44(3). Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

Biekart, K. and A.F. Fowler (2013) ‘Transforming Activisms 2010+: Exploring Ways and Waves’, Development and Change 44(3): 527-546.

Biekart, K. and D. Gasper (2013) ‘Robert Chambers’, Development and Change 44(3): 705-725.

Borras Jr., S.M. and J.C. Franco (2013) ‘Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’’, Third World Quarterly 34(9): 1723-1747.

Borras Jr., S.M., J.C. Franco and C. Wang (2013) ‘The Challenge of Global Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and Competing Political Views and Strategies’, Globalizations 10(1): 161-179.

Borras Jr., S.M., M.E. Margulis and N. McKeon (eds) (2013) Land Grabbing and Global Governance. Series: Rethinking Globalizations. London: Routledge.

Büscher, B.E. (2013) ‘‘Prosuming’ Conservation? Web 2.0, Nature and the Intensification of Value-Producing Labour in Late Capitalism’, Journal of Consumer Culture 13(3): 283-305.

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Büscher, B.E. and V. Davidov (eds) (2013) The Ecotourism – Extraction Nexus: Political Economies and Rural Realities of (un)Comfortable Bedfellows. ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods, 10. London: Routledge.

Buscher, B.E. (2013) Transforming the Frontier. Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa. Durham: Duke University Press.Carbonnier, G. and N. Wagner (2013) ‘Resource Dependence and Armed Violence: Impact on Sustainability in Developing Countries’ Defence and Peace Economics: 1-18.

Creutzig, F., E. Corbera, S. Bolwig and C. Hunsberger (2013) ‘Integrating Place-Specific Livelihood and Equity Outcomes into Global Assessments of Bioenergy Deployment’, Environmental Research Letters 8: 1-11.

Dasgupta, A. and M. Arsel (2013) ‘Structural Change, Land Use and the State in China: Making Sense of Three Divergent Processes’, European Journal of Development Research 25(1): 92-111.

Edelman, M., C. Oya and S.M. Borras Jr. (2013) ‘Global Land Grabs: Historical Processes, Theoretical and Methodological Implications and Current Trajectories’, Third World Quarterly 34(9): 1517-1531.

Faraji Dizaji and P.A.G. van Bergeijk (2013) ‘Potential Early Phase Success and Ultimate Failure of Economic Sanctions: A VAR Approach with an Application to Iran. Journal of Peace Research 50(6): 721-736.

Fischer, A.M. (2013) The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: a Study in the Economics of Marginalization. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Fowler, A.F. and K. Biekart (2013) ‘Relocating Civil Society in a Politics of Civic-Driven Change’, Development Policy Review 31(4): 463-483.

Gasper, D., A.V. Portocarrero and A.L. St. Clair (2013) ‘The Framing of Climate Change and Development: A Comparative Analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 and the World Development Report 2010’ Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 23: 28-39.

Harcourt, W. (2013) ‘The Future of Capitalism: a Consideration of Alternatives’, Cambridge Journal of Economics. First published online 9/24/2013.Harcourt, W. (2013) ‘Transnational Feminist Engagement with 2010+ Activisms’, Development and Change 44(3): 621-637.

Hout, W. (ed.) (2013) EU Strategies on Governance Reform: Between Development and State-building. Series: ThirdWorlds. London: Routledge.

Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2013) ‘‘Doing Gendered Age’: Older Mothers and Migrant Daughters Negotiating Care Work in Rural Lao PDR and Thailand’, Third World Quarterly 34(10): 1896-1910.

Hunsberger, C., S. Bolwig, E. Corbera and F. Creutzig (2013) ‘Livelihood Impacts of Biofuel Crop Production: Implications for Governance’, Geoforum.

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Icaza Garza, R.A. and R. Vazquez (2013) ‘Social Struggles as Epistemic Struggles’, Development and Change 44(3): 683-704.

Knio, K. (2013) ‘Structure, Agency and Hezbollah: A Morphogenetic View’, Third World Quarterly 34(5): 856-872.

Knio, K. (2013) The EU Mediterranean Policy: Model or Muddle? A New Institutionalist Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Margulis, M., N. McKeon and S.M. Borras Jr. (2013) ‘Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives’. Globalizations; 10(1): 1-23.

Margulis, M., N. McKeon and S.M. Borras Jr. (eds) (2013) ‘Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives’. Globalizations Special issue. Abingdon Oxford: Taylor & Francis.

Mebratie, A.D. and A.S. Bedi (2013) ‘Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa’, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 22(1): 94-115.

Mebratie, A.D. and P.A.G. van Bergeijk (2013) ‘Firm Heterogeneity and Development: a Meta-Analysis of FDI Productivity Spillovers’, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 22(1): 52-70.

Muradian, R., L. Pellegrini, M. Arsel, G. Froger, E. Garcia-Frapolli, E. Gomez-Baggethun et al. (2013) ‘Payments for Ecosystem Services and the Fatal Attraction of Win-Win Solutions’, Conservation Letters 6(4): 274-279.

Panda, P., A. Chakraborty, D.M. Dror and A.S. Bedi (2013) ‘Enrolment in Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India’, Health Policy and Planning: 1-15.

Portocarrero Lacayo, A.V., A.L. St. Clair and D. Gasper (2013) ‘An Analysis of the Human Development Report 2011: Sustainability and Equity: a Better Future for All’, South African Journal on Human Rights 29(1): 91-124.

Salih, M.A.R.M. (2013) Local Climate Change and Society. London; New York: Routledge.Scoones, I., R. Hall, S.M. Borras Jr., B. White and W. Wolford (2013) ‘The Politics of Evidence: Methodologies for Understanding the Global Land Rush’, Journal of Peasant Studies 40(3): 469-483.

Shiferaw, A. and A.S. Bedi (2013) ‘The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy’, Journal of African Economies 22(5): 651-692.

Sikor, T., H. Schroeder, C. Upton, G. Auld, A. Bebbington, T. Benjaminsen, et al. (2013) ‘Global Land Governance: from Territory to Flow?’, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5(5): 522-527.

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Spoor, M. (2013) ‘Multidimensional Social Exclusion and the “Rural-Urban Divide” in Eastern Europe and Central Asia’, Sociologia Ruralis 53(2): 139-157.

Staveren, I.P. van (2013) ‘An Exploratory Cross-Country Analysis of Gendered Institutions’, Journal of International Development 25(1): 108-121.

Staveren, I.P. van (2013) ‘Caring Finance Practices’, Journal of Economic Issues 47(2): 419-425.

Truong, T., D. Gasper, J. Handmaker and S.I. Bergh (eds) (2013) Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Security, Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, Vol. 9. Heidelberg: Springer.

White, B., Borras, S.M., Hall, R., Scoones, I. & Wolford, W. (eds) (2013) The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals. London: Routledge.

Wolford, W., S.M. Borras Jr., R. Hall, I. Scoones and B. White (2013) ‘Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land’, Development and Change 44(2): 189-210.

Wolford, W., S.M. Borras Jr., R. Hall, I. Scoones and B. White (eds) (2013) Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Special Issue of Development and Change 44(2). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS).

Wolford, W., S.M. Borras Jr., R. Hall, I. Scoones and B. White (eds) (2013) Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Journals

Development & ChangeISS is the home of Development and Change, one of the best-known and most respected international journals in the field of development studies. Development and Change was established by ISS in 1969 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford) on behalf of ISS. Development and Change is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the critical analysis and discussion of current issues of development. The journal receives articles from all the social sciences and intellectual persuasions concerned with development. Empirical, theoretical and historical articles are all welcome.

Editorial responsibility for Development and Change is in the hands of the Editorial Board based at ISS and supported by an international Advisory Board composed of scholars and researchers from around the world.

The Journal of Peasant StudiesISS is home to The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), one of the leading journals in the field of rural development. JPS provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It encourages inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed.

The Journal of Peasant Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2013 – 2014.

Teaching

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ISS Open DaysISS hosted Open Days on 1 June and 23 November 2013, with masterclasses by ISS staff. Prospective students received information on the MA programme at ISS. Both days were well attended.

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Teaching programmes

ISS offers various teaching programmes• PhD programme• MA programme• Mundus MAPP• Postgraduate courses and tailor-made

training• Collaborative degrees

More information on the PhD programme can be found in the Research section of this Annual Report.

Graduation Ceremony for the MA in Development Studies 2012-2013The Graduation Ceremony of the MA programme 2012/2013 was held in December 2013.With speeches by Dr Freek Schiphorst, Deputy Rector for Educational Affairs, Professor Leo de Haan, Rector and Howard Onyok, outgoing President of student association Scholas.

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MA in Development Studies

ISS offers a 15.5-month MA Programme in Development Studies.

The MA 2013/2014 consists of five majors: • Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies • Economics of Development • Governance, Policy and Political Economy • Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies:

Social Justice Perspectives • Social Policy for Development

If students wish to do a further specialization within their major, they can choose from the following: • Agriculture and Rural Development • Children and Youth Studies • Conflict and Peace Studies • Econometric Analysis of Development Policies• Environment and Sustainable Development• Human Rights• International Political Economy and Development • Local Development Strategies• Methodologies of Research• Population and Development• Poverty Studies

• Public Policy and Management• Social Movements and Action Research Tools• The Global Economy• Women and Gender Studies• Work and Employment

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Joint Master Degree in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP)

The Erasmus Mundus Master in Public Policy is among the first truly Joint Degrees accredited in the Netherlands.

The Joint Master is offered by a consortium consisting of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary (coordinator), the University of York in the United Kingdom, the Barcelona Institute for International Relations (IBEI) in Barcelona, Spain and ISS. The academic coordinator of the programme at ISS is Dr Karim Knio.

The programme started in 2007 as a Double Degree and became a Joint Master degree in September 2012. Mundus MAPP is a two-year programme with the first batch hoping to graduate at the end of 2014.

Students spend their first year at either ISS or CEU and their second year either at the University of York or IBEI. The various so-called mobility tracks in the joint degree each allow for a different focus – Political Economy and Development, Governance and Development, Global Public Policy and European

Public Policy – while maintaining a uniform core of policy studies subjects. Students are exposed to a variety of European academic traditions and policy contexts through study visits and internships.

The Mundus MAPP programme is funded by the European Commission. There are scholarships available for students in the MA programme and also stipends for visiting scholars.

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The annual intake of Mundus MAPP students at ISS2012-2014: 11 students8 went to IBEI and 3 went to York8 with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship and 3 self-financing

2013-2015: 12 students 6 will go to IBEI and 6 will go to York6 with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship and 6 self-financing

Hosted scholarsThe Mundus MAPP consortium hosts outstanding scholars who are interested in contributing to the study programme and strengthening academic partnerships with the consortium institutions. Selected academics are hosted for a period of minimum two weeks and maximum three months in one of the institutions. In addition to conducting research in one of the disciplines Mundus MAPP draws on, they are required to teach or develop elements of the Mundus MAPP programme.

In 2013 ISS hosted Dr. Peter J. Stoett, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, Concordia University, Canada.

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The MA Degree in Development Studies and Mundus

MAPP are widely recognized. They are accredited by

the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands

and Flanders (NVAO) and provide eligibility for entry

to PhD programmes in the Netherlands and in other

countries throughout the world.

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Number of MA students and Mundus MAPP Nationality of MA students and Mundus MAPP 2013/2014

42% Africa

30% Asia

12%Latin America

9% Europe

6%North America

1%Australia

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Students per Major and Mundus MAPP

Overview of funding

Netherlands Fellowship Programme 63

StuNed Scholarships 18

EU Mundus MAPP 12

World Bank 6

Government of India 5

Government of Indonesia 3

Wim Deetman Scholarship 3

Conacyt 2

Colfuturo Scholarships 2

Getfund 2

Organization of American States 2

Other sponsors 9

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Gender of MA students and Mundus MAPP 2013/2014

42 Economics of Development

35 Social Policy for Development

31 Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies: Social Justice Perspectives

28 Governance, Policy and Political Economy

20 Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies

12 Mundus MAPP

168 Total

Postgraduate courses and tailor-made training

ISS postgraduate diploma programmes cater to the needs of young and mid-career professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge in a particular field related to their research or occupation. The programmes are policy-oriented, issue-driven and skill-intensive, and are comprised of coursework with exercises, case studies, and individual and group assignments, based on real-life experiences.

In 2013 ISS offered the following postgraduate courses:Diploma courses• Children, Youth and Development • Governance, Democratization and Public Policy • Universalizing Socioeconomic Security for the Poor • Sustainable Local Economic Development (offered

together with IHS, the Institute for Urban Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam)

22 participants took part in the Diploma courses.

Tailor-made training in Vietnam and NepalIn 2013 ISS organized a training of trainers in Nepal, in collaboration with the Forum for Protection of People’s Rights Nepal (PPR).

In total 40 Nepalese PPR staff and volunteers were trained to become trainers on aspects of gender-based violence in Nepal. The ISS staff involved were Professor Karin Arts and Dr Wendy Harcourt.

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The course on Policy-Making for Natural Resource Management in Vietnam had 32 participants and dealt with the challenges of managing water and land. The course was held at the Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and Public Administration in Hanoi (HCMA). The focus was on the Academy’s Centre of Leadership and Policy Studies, which was established in 2011 as the result of a 3-year capacity development project at HCMA, in which ISS and the Academy cooperated. The ISS staff involved were Professor Max Spoor and Dr Joop de Wit.

The Future of Peace and JusticeISS students participated in the impressive TEDx conference The Future of Peace and Justice, held in September 2013. The Hague Academic Coalition (HAC), of which ISS is a member/partner, organized this event. At this TEDxHagueAcademy event, video and live speakers combined to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

Training Day on International EducationIn July 2013 Dr Abiodun Williams, President of the Hague Institute for Global Justice, gave the keynote speech at ISS on the topic of Promoting Peace and Justice through International Education.

Dr Williams reflected on the topic as both a beneficiary and proponent of international education, having himself attended the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, one of 13 United World Colleges. In his remarks, Dr Williams argued that just as education could serve as an instrument for economic growth and democratic accountability within the state, so international education could reduce tensions between nations, forestalling conflict. More directly, higher education institutes have a valuable role to play in cultivating the knowledge necessary for successful conflict prevention strategies. ISS is one of the founding partners of The Hague Institute for Global Justice.

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Collaborative degrees

As an internationally-oriented social science institute, ISS has strong international networks. ISS invests in the development of collaborative degrees because it regards them as an important way of expanding these networks, strengthening the Institute’s profile and fulfilling its educational mission more effectively.

Collaborative degrees are seen a key component of the overall academic quality of ISS and the quality of its research. They are often a first step towards establishing sustainable relationships with partner institutes, which eventually lead to extended research contacts and the opportunity to tender for collaborative research and capacity building projects.

Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme in Public PolicyThis is a two-year international joint Masters programme in Public Policy (MAPP). The first year is spent either at ISS or at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (Hungary) and the second year either at the University of York (UK) or

the Institute of International Relations in Barcelona (Spain). The Mundus MAPP programme is funded by the European Commission, which also provides scholarships for this programme.

Master in Public Administration with the FHR Lim A Po Institute in SurinamISS offers a Master in Public Administration (MPA) in collaboration with the FHR Lim A Po Institute for Social Studies in Suriname. The MPA is intended for mid-career professionals in Surinam and is a part-time programme spread over two years.

Double Degree Programme with the University of IndonesiaISS offers a two-year double degree programme together with the University of Indonesia. Students spend their first year at the Faculty of Economics at the UI in Depok and their second year at ISS.

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Double Degree with Ritsumeikan University in JapanISS and Ritsumeikan University offer their students the opportunity to spend six months (starting in September) studying at the partner university in order to obtain a double degree in Development Studies/International Relations.

Master of Development Economics in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, VietnamISS and the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City and the National Economics University in Hanoi in Vietnam offer a two-year MA in Development Economics (MDE). The MDE programme is taught by a mix of visiting lecturers from the Netherlands and Vietnamese university lecturers.

Postgraduate Diploma in Poverty AnalysisThe Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Poverty Analysis is a part-time one-year programme in Tanzania, delivered through distance learning coupled with short-term intensive training workshops.

The programme is jointly delivered and managed by three institutions: the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) and Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) in partnership with ISS. ISS is the diploma-awarding institution.

As of 2013, ISS offers the opportunity to this group of students to enter the ISS MA programme in Development Studies in a short-track setup.

Transatlantic ATLANTIS programmeThe two-year Atlantis Transatlantic Masters Programme in Security and Development Policy started in 2012. This is a joint programme offered by ISS, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York (US) and

the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (Germany). Students spend their first two semesters at Maxwell before joining the Hertie School for their 3rd and ISS for their 4th semester. The programme is supported by the EU Commission and the US Department of Education.

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Career and Alumni

Career Planning WorkshopISS offers students a Career Planning Workshop. The workshop consists of three sessions and focuses on a personal SWOT analysis, CV-writing, preparing for interviews and networking. The workshop is offered several times throughout the year and is offered free of charge to all ISS students.

Career TalksCareer talks, in which ISS alumni and current students and staff share their experiences and progress in their careers, are offered on a regular basis.For example, ISS alumnus Jerome Surur (Public Policy and Administration 1985/1986), now Deputy Governor in the Eastern Equatoria State of South Sudan, visited ISS in May 2013 and met with a group of current students. Before becoming Deputy Governor, Jerome Surur served as a minister of in several ministries in his state. Mr Surur met with the ISS Rector along with about 20 students from the MA programme, who were very interested to learn about the situation in (Southern) Sudan, the relations with other countries in Eastern Africa and opportunities for a career after ISS.

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ScholasEvery participant in an ISS degree or certificate programme is a member of the ISS student association Scholas. The Scholas board members and the various committees stimulate intercultural, social and sports activities among the students. Through Scholas, students are also represented in the most important decision-making bodies at ISS.

ISS students participate in the World Class The Hague programmeISS students participate in the ‘World Class The Hague’ programme, which gives students the opportunity to attend special master classes and events on topics including international relations, peace and the justice system.

World Class The Hague aims to strengthen the ties between the city of peace and justice and its students. The Hague University of Applied Sciences, InHolland University of Applied Sciences, Leiden University’s The Hague Campus and ISS each select 20 students to participate in the programme.From April 2013 to April 2015 there will be a masterclass held every quarter. The masterclass will be led by a renowned and inspiring speaker in the field of international relations, peace and the justice system.

In June 2013 World Class Students were invited to a talk at ISS given by Professor Martha Nussbaum, Honorary Fellow of ISS.

Students elected the Scholas executive board 2013-2014. From left to right: Francesco Ginocchio (Peru), Dhani Astuti (Indonesia), Yenutien Kombian (Ghana), Rakesh Sharma (India)

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Peace Run 2013ISS students participated in the Peace Run 2013, held around the Peace Palace. The Peace Run is one of the many sporting events in which ISS students participate.

ISS Ambassadors programme2013 saw the start of the first ISS Ambassadors programme (2013/2015). Graduates of the 2012/2013 MA programme were selected and trained to represent ISS in their country. The ISS Ambassadors liaise with prospective students, alumni, funding organizations, embassies,

universities, the media and anyone else with an interest in ISS.In this first year of the programme ISS has Ambassadors in Bolivia, China, Eritrea, Ghana, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

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In 2013 ISS continued to invest in its alumni relations. News on alumni, ISS, career and funding possibilities is actively shared by alumni and ISS through newsletters and ISS Alumni groups on both LinkedIn and Facebook.

ISS Alumni Connecting the WorldOver 12,000 former students of ISS from more than 150 countries form the ISS alumni community. This community is a strong worldwide network of professionals in development; a network that shares knowledge, supports and professional development.

A number of alumni gatherings were organized in 2013. Hosted by an ISS staff member and often attended by the Dutch ambassador, alumni dinners were organized in Brazil, Colombia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Uganda and the United Kingdom.

Future students of ISS who had already registered were invited to the alumni meetings, giving them the opportunity to learn from the experiences of former students.

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Refresher course UgandaA two-week course was held in Uganda for a group of 23 former students from Uganda and nearby countries. The topic was ‘Re-imaging young people’s right to education, health and well-being: A gender and generation perspective on current dilemmas and challenges in Eastern Africa’. The ISS staff involved were Loes Keysers and Dr Auma Okwany.

ISS Alumni FundThe ISS Alumni Fund was established in 2012 as a specific fund within the Erasmus Trust Fund. The Fund aims to raise funds from alumni and others to provide financial support to talented prospective students.

In 2013 the Fund raised nearly € 20,000. The money will be used to support future MA students.

ISS alumni gathering IndiaOver 35 alumni attended the ISS alumni gathering in New Delhi, India in October 2013. The Dutch ambassador in Delhi, Fons Stoelinga, was among the guests. ISS professors Des Gasper and James Warner Bjorkman and Dr Sunil Tankha hosted the meeting.

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Finance & Human Resources

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It is not only ISS students who have diverse backgrounds. ISS staff also hail from many

different regions around the world: 21 nationalities are represented on the ISS faculty.

a16.728 mln Total income

a10.674 mlnCore subsidy

a 2.449 mlnTuition fees

a 1.939 mlnProject income and research funding

a 1.666 mlnOther income

36%Senior lecturers

26%Professors

21%Associate professors

17%Lecturers

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In Memoriam

The ISS Deputy Rector for Educational Affairs Dr Jos Mooij passed away in February 2013. She had been ill for some time.

Jos joined ISS in 1996 as a Lecturer in Rural Development. After a 4-year stay in Hyderabad (2000-2004) she rejoined ISS as Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Development. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. Since 2011 she has held the position of Deputy Rector for Educational Affairs.

Colourful, kind and competent, an expert in her field, Jos was a colleague who found joy in her work. She was a passionate educationalist with a great belief in the important role education can play in international development and was, above all, a warm and lovely person on whom you could rely.

Sunila Abeysekera

The ISS community was saddened by the loss of ISS alumna and guest researcher Sunila Abeysekera in September 2013. She was one of Sri Lanka’s most amazing and determined feminists and human rights defenders.

Sunila will be remembered for her sharp analytical mind, her incredible wit and sense of humour, and for her joyous love of everything that is life-affirming.

Dr Jos Mooij

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Honorary Fellows The organization and development of ISS has always been influenced by its Honorary Fellows.

Here is an overview of our Honorary Fellows and the years in which they were awarded their

Honorary Doctorate.

1962 Dattatreya Gopal Karve1962 Peter Kuenstler1962 Oskar Lange1962 Eugen Pusic1962 Paul Rosenstei-Rodan1962 Mohammed Tewfíq Ramzi1962 Jan Tinbergen1966 Egbert de Vries1967 Ursula Hicks1977 Hans Singer1977 Raúl Prebisch1979 Kurt Martin1982 Manfred Lachs1982 Amartya Sen1982 Rodolfo Stavenhagen1988 Lucille Mair1988 Prince Claus of the Netherlands1992 Subrata Roy Chowdhury1992 Hans Linnemann1997 Benno Ndulu1997 Mamphela Ramphele2002 Jan Pronk2002 Elinor Ostrom2002 Edward Said

2006 Martha Nussbaum2007 Richard Jolly2007 Bina Agarwal2009 Jan Breman2013 Robert Chambers

More information on ISS Honorary Fellows can be found on the ‘About ISS’ section of the ISS website.

Lecture by Martha Nussbaum In June 2013, Honorary Fellow Martha Nussbaum gave a lecture at ISS entitled Education in the global context: an exercise in building understanding and concern, empathy and sympathy. Her talk was followed by a panel discussion on how we can support this capacity to imagine. What is the role and potential of university education in this process?

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ISS Management

Institute Board Professor Leo de Haan Rector

Professor Mohamed SalihDeputy Rector for Research Affairs

Dr Jos Mooij († 28-02-2013)Deputy Rector for Educational Affairs

Dr Freek Schiphorst (acting from 1 March 2013; appointed in September 2013)Deputy Rector for Educational Affairs

Renée de Louw (until 1 July 2013)Deputy Rector Resources

Institute DirectorMichel Wesseling (as of 1 July 2013)

ISS Advisory BoardProfessor Hans van Ginkel (chair) Former Rector Magnificus Utrecht University and former Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo.

Professor Han Entzinger Professor of Migration & Integration Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Nanno Kleiterp CEO of FMO (Netherlands Development Finance Company).

Kathleen Ferrier (until 1 July 2013, as of 1 July 2013 member at large) Member independent Expert Review Group on Information and Accountability on Women’s and Children’s Health (UN) and former Dutch politician and development aid worker.

The Institute is managed by the Institute Board, which is advised by the ISS Advisory Board. The Institute Board is accountable to the Executive Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Faculty Staff

Dr. Murat Arsel Associate Professor of Development StudiesProfessor Karin Arts Professor of International Law and DevelopmentProfessor Arjun Bedi Professor of Quantitative EconomicsProfessor Peter van Bergeijk Professor of International Economics/Macro-economicsDr. Sylvia Bergh Senior Lecturer in Development Management and GovernanceDr. Erhard Berner Associate Professor of Development SociologyDr. Kees Biekart Associate Professor of Political SociologyDr. Jun Borras Associate Professor of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentDr. Bram Buscher Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentDr. John Cameron Associate Professor for Development ResearchDr. Kristen Cheney Senior Lecturer Children and Youth StudiesDr. Amrita Chhachhi Senior Lecturer in Women, Gender, DevelopmentProfessor Meine Pieter van Dijk Professor of Human Resources and Local DevelopmentDr. Andrew Fischer Associate Professor in Population and Social PolicyProfessor Alan Fowler Affiliated Professor of Civil Society and International DevelopmentProfessor Des Gasper Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics and Public PolicyDr. Georgina Gomez Lecturer in Local and Regional DevelopmentProfessor Michael Grimm Affiliated Professor of Development EconomicsProfessor Leo de Haan Professor of Development Studies, Rector or the InstituteDr. Jeff Handmaker Senior Lecturer in Law, Human Rights and DevelopmentDr. Wendy Harcourt Associate Professor in Social PolicyProfessor Bert Helmsing Professor of Local and Regional Development Dr. Silke Heumann Lecturer Women, Gender and DevelopmentDr. Helen Hintjens Senior Lecturer in Development and Social Justice

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Professor Rolph van der Hoeven Professor of Human Resources and Local DevelopmentProfessor Wil Hout Professor of Governance and International Political EconomyDr. Roy Huijsmans Senior Lecturer in Children & Youth StudiesDr. Rosalba Icaza Garza Senior Lecturer in Governance and International Political EconomyLoes Keysers MA Lecturer in Women and Development StudiesDr. Karim Kniou Senior Lecturer in PoliticsProfessor Peter Knorringa Professor of Private Sector & DevelopmentDr. Rachel Kurian Senior Lecturer in International Labour EconomicsDr. Barbara Lehmbruch Senior Lecturer in States, Societies and World DevelopmentDr. Mahmood Meskoub Senior Lecturer in Development StudiesDr. Jos Mooij Associate Professor of Public Policy and Development Management (passed away Feb 2013) Professor Mansoob Murshed Professor of Economics of Conflict and Peace Dr. Susan Newman Senior Lecturer in Development EconomicsDr. Howard Nicholas Senior Lecturer in EconomicsDr. Auma Okwany Lecturer in Social PoliciesDr. Lee Pegler Lecturer in Work Organization and Labour RightsDr. Lorenzo Pellegrini Associate Professor in Development EconomicsProfessor Jan Pronk Affiliated Professor of Theory and Practice of International DevelopmentProfessor Mohamed Salih Professor of Politics of DevelopmentDr. Freek Schiphorst Senior Lecturer in Labour RelationsDr. Mindi Schneider Associate Professor of Agrarian, Food and Environmental StudiesDr. Nahda Shehada Senior Lecturer in Gender, Culture and DevelopmentDr. Karin Astrid Siegmann Senior Lecturer in Labour and GenderProfessor Max Spoor Professor of Development Studies, in particular regarding economies in

transitionProfessor Irene van Staveren Professor of Pluralist Development EconomicsDr. Sunil Tankha Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management Dr. Thanh Dam Truong Associate Professor of Gender and Human Security StudiesDr. Oane Visser Assistant Professor of Agrarian, Food and Environmental StudiesProfessor Rob Vos Affiliated Professor of Finance and DevelopmentDr. Natascha Wagner Assistant Professor of Development EconomicsDr. Joop de Wit Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Development ManagementDr. Dubravka Zarkov Associate Professor of Development, Gender and Conflict Studies

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