Ter gelegenheid van het 40 jarig jubileum van het Eindhovens Centrum voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking(COS)werd er eind november een studiemiddag gehouden in het Duurzaamheidscentrum ICSE te Eindhoven. Sprekers waren ir. Paulus Jansen (SP- tweedekamerlid) en prof. Arnold Heertje.

The following paper presents an evaluation of actions and commitments carried out by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) in order to achieve gender-sensitive sustainable development. Starting with the introduction explaining the issue of gender inequality and describing the research methods …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is an underdeveloped region, but had seen significant economic growth before the global financial crisis. Due to the crisis economic growth has stopped or even decreased. In addition, several other aspects are expected to become worse, such as incomes, child mortality and access …

This final paper focuses on municipal international cooperation (MIC) with developing nations. MIC can be defined as international decentralised cooperation or the term "town twinning" (Boven, 2007, "what is town twinning" section). It is an agreement between two or more municipalities from different …

In 2000 the European Union (EU) signed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations (UN) policy in order to reduce poverty until 2015 by half compared to the figures from 2000. The EU is fully committed to the achievement of these internationally established MDGs which aim to end poverty …

This thesis examines the following central question: Are EU migration policies contradicting with EUs development objectives aiming to tackle the problem of brain drain in the African health sectors? Furthermore, it deals with the phenomenon of brain drain in the African health sector and EUs contribution …

COS Zuid Holland Zuid's main mission is to broaden the basis for international cooperation. This means attracting new groups to get more involved in international cooperation. COS ZHZ already does very well in strengthening the existing basis for international cooperation, however reaching for new target …

This paper is an analysis of how Non - Governmental Development Organisations (NGDO) lobby the European Parliament. NGDOs employ various lobbying tools to exert influence during the legislative process at the European Parliament. In order to assess how these organisations lobby, it needs to be established …

This paper is an explanatory study which seeks to understand what is happening in the European Union in the field of development education and to recognize possible problems posed to the subject. It observes the development education within the context of EU development policy, within the Non-Governmental …

Economic underdevelopment in sub-Saharan Africa has a long history. Two centuries of globalization has left sub-Saharan Africa lagging far behind in its economic development - its income is twenty five times smaller than the income of the USA, the richest economy in the world. This unfavorable situation …