GPN Working Papers

How to decolonise development cooperation in practice? This policy paper shares the 12 most important recommendations based on five years of experience within the Global Partnership Network, a network of 11 universities and 18 civil society organisations in 12 countries, all of which are located in the Global South except Germany.

This paper reveals how exploitation manifests in the shrimp cultivation industry of Bangladesh. Fish, as the second most valuable crop, contributes significantly to Bangladesh’s national income and food security. Due to the demand for cheap shrimp in the international market, shrimp farming is expanding in Bangladesh. Therefore, different studies raise concerns about the shrimp supply chain, labour practices, and exploitation of shrimp producers and fry collectors within the industry.

The paper explores how the concepts of race and gender have been used in the discourse of
development and how racialised and gendered differences have been constructed. It also maps
convergences between race, gender and capitalism and discusses the co-optation of critical
concepts in the discourse with the empirical example of a strategy paper on feminist develop-
ment policy from the German government.

This paper is a contribution to the search for equitable and socially acceptable methods
of developing agribusiness in Senegal. It presents the results of an experience capitalization,
proposed by ENDA GRAF SAHEL to the town hall of Mont-Rolland,
and carried out under the scientific expertise of Makhtar Ndao.

The present paper analyses this complex scenario in the frame of the dilemma of an individual right to migrate and a citizen’s right everywhere to health. It synthesises the articles contributed to the Global Partnership Network by giving an overview of the five papers from Ghana and five papers from India.

Beyond Green Capitalism criticizes green capitalism as insufficient and argues for a democratic-humanist Marxism that combines social justice, environmental sustainability and feminist values. It emphasizes the need for a radical transformation in South Africa to effectively combat social inequality, environmental degradation and the crisis of capitalism.

Dr. Reema Gill (2024)

Movement of nurses is a coalescence of different factors and forces. It is not just an occurrence rising from global equation of supply and demand of nurses as the spaces of globalization are multiple, intersecting, socially and politically constructed.

Dr. Anarfi Asamoa Baah (2024)

Since the Covid-19 crisis, we have seen an exponential increase, a surge, in the number of nurses leaving the shores of Ghana to the UK, the USA, Canada, and Aus­tralia. This is worrying because of the critical role nurses play in the Ghanaian health service delivery system.

Prof. Dr. Ayalneh Bogale (2023)

This paper reviews what Africa can learn from the success and failures of Green Revolution, the pace at which the continental agricultural transformation is progressing towards attaining its stated goals and then proposes few strategic pathways that may be considered to enhance sustainable and resilient agri-food systems that would produce sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet the needs of all people for an active and healthy life – and doing so without compromising the food security, health and nutrition of future generations.

Prof. Dr. Archana Prasad (2023)

The main motivation of the project was to understand how the power and control of transnational businesses is growing over the agricultural system in the context of persistent agrarian distress because of the changing role of the Indian State and its declining interventions in the agricultural sector.

Juvaria Jafri (2022)

While it is not surprising then that the fintech sector has had an immense role in shaping the demand for and supply of technology centred on digital identification, a distinct feature of how this technology is deployed is a somewhat nebulous public-private partnership model