Christiane Kliemann

21/01/202502/12/2025

Confronting My Family’s Colonial Past. A Personal Journey

By Martha Knight / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project

Unravelling the threads that shape our understanding of the impacts of colonialism is a multifaceted and highly complex task. I know this because I teach Global Development for the Open University (OU) and grapple with decolonising dominant discourses around development and change. However, this is a personal story. This is a story which goes beyond the intellectual challenge of decolonising knowledge and sits squarely with my family’s role in colonialism. Something I only discovered recently.

14/01/202502/12/2025

Navigating France’s Political Landscape: Implications for International Development Aid

By Hugo Pilkington / Part of the European Development Policy Outlook Series

Amid a welter of political drama, and after having successfully hosted the Summer 2024 Olympic games, France is struggling to find a stable government. The country still has no budget for 2025. This is not the norm (the last time anything roughly similar happened was in 1979) but can be said to proceed from the unusual events of Mid-2024. The current political conundrum arose on the heels of a snap election called, in a surprise move, by Emmanuel Macron, following disastrous results for his own political movement – Ensemble pour la République – during the European elections of June 9, 2024.

19/12/202402/12/2025

Story-Telling: A Method to Support Decolonising Knowledge for Development

By Peter Taylor

I have recently been working closely with a group of EADI members reflecting on the importance of “decolonising knowledge for development”. This is in response to our acknowledgement that social divides are driven by race, gender, religion, class and financial inequities. We know that knowledge is crucial in tackling multiple, intersecting crises grounded in, and amplifying, these divides. Yet, knowledge processes themselves are underpinned by historic, structural power asymmetries, inequities and inequalities. These inequalities are perpetuated through exclusion of many groups, communities and individuals from knowledge creation processes.

10/12/202402/12/2025

Where is UK Development Policy Headed Under the New Government?

By Andy Sumner / Part of the European Development Policy Outlook Series

Chancellor unmoved by cuts of aid budget

The headline is that the UK aid budget was cut by £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion). Despite the flags, it seems the Chancellor was unwilling or unable to provide additional funds to offset the billions of pounds of the UK’s aid budget spent on supporting refugees inside the UK. This makes her the first Labou r chancellor to cut aid below levels of a prior Conservative government.