During the period 2021 - 2024, ADAPTED Early Stage Researchers have produced 14 publications and a further 27 publications are forthcoming or in preparation. ADAPTED PIs and African partners have also contributed to the research output of the project.
One forthcoming publication involving a number of ADAPTED members is a special issue of the open access journal Politics and Governance, edited by three ADAPTED PIs, Andrew Fischer, Wil Hout and Markus Kaltenborn, entitled "The Politics of Pro-Poor Policies in the Global South". The issue will be published in January 2026.
Publications and any open data provided by ADAPTED ESRs are also accessible via the ADAPTED Zenodo community.

 

Forthcoming Publications of ADAPTED members

Among, Irene, Kaltenborn, Markus, and Zakharchenko, Natalia (forthcoming): “The legal framework of institutional change in social protection systems”, in Bender, L., and Kaltenborn, M. (eds.), Transformative Social Protection Systems (Edward Elgar Publishing).

Among, Irene and Kaltenborn, Markus (forthcoming): The African Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security: Prospects for comprehensive social protection systems, African Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Bazillier, Remi and Rana, Arslan Tarik (forthcoming), Social clauses in free-trade arrangements: An efficient tool to improve labour standards?, The World Economy.

Leite de Queiroz, Luiza (forthcoming): Comes with the territory: sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction in the realization of transnational tax justice, German Law Journal.

Leite de Queiroz, Luiza (forthcoming): What normativity for international tax? Towards alignment with human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals’, in Eghosa Ekhator, Newman U. Richards and Chisa Onyejekwe (eds), Taxation, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Global South Perspectives (Routledge, Publication date 29 May 2025).

Zakharchenko, Natalia (forthcoming): “Socio-Economic Rights in Central Asia”, In Sayapin, S. (ed.), Essays on Central Asia and International Law (Springer).

 

New Publications of ADAPTED members

2025

Abasli, Iaha; El Assal, Ahmed; Hafez, Y. (2025): Why are you not doing research in your home country? Dissecting Expectations of Southern Researchers, Development in Practice. (Online First)

Brindley, Callum, Van Ourti, Tom, Bonfrer, Igna and O'Donnell, Owen (2025), 'Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data', Social Science & Medicine, 365, pp. 117591.

Gibertini, Beatrice (2025), The hustle lifeways of Black women in mining-affected communities of South Africa, The Extractive Industries and Society, 22, pp. 101629.

Lapeyronie, Hugo and Szedlacsek, Eszter (2025), Mining in Africa: Are local communities paying the price of the global energy transition?, The Extractive Industries and Society, 21, pp. 101565.

Löwenstein, Wilhelm (2025), Growth and development in the presence of absolute poverty, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5110518 or https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110518.

Pattberg, Philipp and Enechi, Okechukwu (2025), 'Stakeholder motivations for participation in partnerships for the SDGS: the case of Nigeria', International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. (Online First)

Pattberg, Philipp, Motta, Stew and Böck, Isabella et al. (2025), 'The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk', Global Environmental Change, 90, pp. 102962.

Scholvin, Sören, Black, Anthony and Robbins, Glen (2025), 'De-risking green hydrogen? Insights from Chile and South Africa', Energy Policy, 198, pp. 114485.

2024

Benshaul-Tolonen, Anja and Gibertini, Beatrice and Konte, Maty (2024), African Mining Economies and the Gender Gap in Political Participation, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4756923 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4756923

Cariolle Joël, Elkhateeb, Yasmine and Maurel, Mathilde (2024), 'Misinformation technology: Internet use and political misperceptions in Africa', Journal of Comparative Economics, 52(2), pp. 400-433.

Chauvet, Lisa, Ferry, Marin and Boucher, Antoine (2024), 'Foreign Aid and Power Play: Political Cycles in World Bank's Procurement Allocation', Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4995984 or https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4995984.

Cornelisse, Galina (2024), 'How Europe Dodges the International Arms Control Regime', Blog Article, Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/how-europe-dodges-the-international-arms-control-regime/

Cornelisse, Galina (2024), 'EU Boots on the Ground and Effective Judicial Protection against Frontex’ Operational Powers in Return: Lessons from Case T‑600/21', European Journal of Migration and Law, 26(3), pp. 1-21.

El Assal, Ahmed and Among, Irene (2024), 'Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition', Voluntas.

Kadirbeyoglu, Zeynep and Kutlu, Rabia (2024), ‘Urban sustainability transition in Turkey: drivers and barriers‘, Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement 45 (2), pp. 348-368.

Le, Minh-Phuong, Chauvet, Lisa and Marouani, Mohamed Ali (2024), 'The Great Lockdown and the Small Business: Impact, Channels and Adaptation to the Covid Pandemic', World Development, 182, pp. 106673.

Leite de Queiroz, Luiza (2024), 'A link without a right, or ubi nexus, ibi jus (?): international human rights instruments & international tax policy', Transnational Legal Theory 15 (2), pp. 201-235.

Maurel, Mathilde and Berthelemy, Jean-Claude (2024), ‘A sky view evaluation of the impact of mini-grid projects on progress towards SDG 7‘, Journal of Development Effectiveness.

Pattberg, Philipp et al. (2024), ‘The Evolution of International Environmental Bureaucracies - How the Climate Secretariat Is Loosening Its Straitjacket‘ in: Jörgens, Helge et al. (eds.), International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance - The Role of Autonomy, Agency, and the Quest for Attention. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 57-72.

Pattberg, Philipp, Li, Xiaoran and Widerberg, Oscar (2024), 'China’s climate governance from 2009 to 2019: motivations, instruments, actors, and geopolitics', Climate Policy, 24(3), pp. 378-395.

Samba Sylla, Ndongo and Fischer, Andrew et al. (2024), 'Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice', Development and Change, 55(4), pp. 560-600.

Szedlacsek, Eszter and Hickmann Thomas and Biermann, Frank et al. (2024), 'Scoping article: research frontiers on the governance of the Sustainable Development Goals', Global Sustainability. (Online First)

Yang, Beibei and Blondeel, Mathieu and Pattberg, Philipp (2024), 'The Evolution of China's Domestic Climate Policy Frames (2009–2024): Problems, Solutions, and Motivations', Environmental Policy and Governance. (Online First)

Zakharchenko, Natalia (2024), 'Edward Said’s Counterpoint and Colonial Echoes of Music', Blog Article, The Contrapuntal. https://thecontrapuntal.com/edward-saids-counterpoint-colonial-music/

Zakharchenko, Natalia (2024), 'The Fieldwork Body', Blog Article, The Contrapuntal. https://thecontrapuntal.com/the-fieldwork-body/

2023

Bazillier, Rémi (2023), ‘Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Regulations, and Firms Performance‘ in: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham, pp. 1-13.

Bazillier, Rémi and Gibertini, Beatrice and Jackson, Stephen (2023), 'Gold and Diamond Artisanal Mining in Liberia: Under the Umbrella of In(Formality)?', Resources Policy, 86 (Part B), 104287.

Bukenya, Badru et al. (2023), ‘The Politics of PoEs in Uganda – Trapped Between Neoliberal State-Building and the Politics of Survival?‘, in: Hickey, Sam (ed.), Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 173-205.

De Theije, Marjo and Jonkman, Jesse (2023), ‘Insurgent infrastructures: bottom-up infrastructure-building in gold-mining regions in Colombia and Suriname‘, Globalizations, 20 (6), pp. 950-966.

El Assal, Ahmed and Absali, Ilaha (2023), “Why are you not doing research in your home country?” – The complexities of being from and doing research in the Global South, Blog Article, LSE Impact Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/12/05/why-are-you-not-doing-research-in-your-home-country-the-complexities-of-being-from-and-doing-research-in-the-global-south/

El Assal, Ahmed and Marzouk, Amr (2023), ‘Civil society organisations' public diplomacy and youth political participation in Egypt‘ in: Natil, Ibrahim (ed.), Public Diplomacy and Civil Society Organisations. Routledge, London, pp. 74-92.

Fischer, Andrew M. and Storm, Servaas (2023), ‘The Return of Debt Crisis in Developing Countries: Shifting or Maintaining Dominant Development Paradigms?‘, Development and Change, 54 (5), pp. 954-993.

Kaltenborn, Markus and Vandenhole, Wouter (2023), ‘The SDG agenda and human rights‘ in: Andreassen, Bård (ed.), Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, pp. 215-236.

Kaltenborn, Markus (2023), 'Expanding Global Social Protection – Options for the design of an international financing mechanism', Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Karam, Azza (2023), ‘Interreligious Engagement as an Enabler of Gender Justice through the Common Good‘, The Ecumenical Review, 75 (5), pp. 451-464.

Leite de Queiroz, Luiza (2023), 'A Scientific Method for International Taxation?', Emory International Law Review Recent Developments', 38, pp. 16-31.

Löwenstein, Wilhelm, Sadik-Zada, Elkhan Richard and Dumbuya, Foday Sheku (2023), Modernization through solar off-grid electrification? A mixed picture for rural Sierra Leone, The Electricity Journal, 36(7), pp. 107316.

Pattberg, Philipp and Bäckstrand, Karin (2023), ‘Enhancing the achievement of the SDGs: lessons learned at the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda‘, International Environmental Agreements 23, pp. 107–114.

Pattberg, Philipp and Koloffon Rosas, Montserrat (2023), ‘Partnerships for SDGs: Facilitating a Biodiversity–Climate Nexus?‘ in: Partzsch, Lena (ed.), The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance: Perceptions, Actors, Innovations. Bristol University Press, Bristol, pp. 297-316.

Pattberg, Philipp et al. (2023), ‘Multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs: is the “next generation” fit for purpose?‘, International Environmental Agreements 23, pp. 165–171.

Zakharchenko, Natalia (2023), 'Accented Universality: Exploring Accountability as a Non-Translatable Concept', Review of Central and East European Law, 48(3-4), 351- 374.

2022

Black, Anthony (2022), 'Creating employment: Can labour-intensive manufacturing work?' in: Greg Mills/ Mcebisi Jonas/ Haroon Bhorat/ Ray Hartley (eds.), Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa's Future, Johannesburg: Picador Africa.

Duval, Laetitia (2022), 'Climate Change, Vector-Borne Diseases, and Migration', in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Cham: Springer, pp. 1-15.

Hout, Wil (2022): Developing Countries and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order. In Politics and Governance 10 (2), pp. 1–5.

Hout, Wil; Hutchison, Jane (2022): Development Assistance Policies and Governance. In Wil Hout, Jane Hutchison (Eds.): Handbook on Governance and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 323–339.

Hout, Wil; Hutchison, Jane (Eds.) (2022): Handbook on Governance and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Hout, Wil; Hutchison, Jane (2022): Introduction to the Handbook on Governance and Development. In Wil Hout, Jane Hutchison (Eds.): Handbook on Governance and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 1–12.

Hout, Wil; Wagner, Natascha; Demena, Binyam A. (2022): Does accountability enhance service delivery? Assessment of a local scorecard initiative in Uganda. In World Development 158 (106011), pp. 1–14.

Hout, Wil; Wagner, Natascha; Namara, Rose (2022): Holding the Ugandan police to account: case study of the Police Accountability and Reform Project. In Sylvia Bergh, Sony Pellissery, C. Sathyamala (Eds.): The State of Accountability in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 164–180.

Kaltenborn, Markus (2022), Which are the principles for the governance of a Global Financing Mechanism for Social Protection?, https://socialprotection.org/discover/blog/which-are-principles-governance-global-financing-mechanism-social-protection (01.04.2022).

Kaltenborn, Markus, Kreft, Laura (2022), Governance Principles for a Global Fund for Social Protection, Bonn/ Geneva: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.

Leite de Queiroz, Luiza (2022), Of Mazes and Layers: Can a UN Convention on Tax Change the Rule of the Game, Blog Article, European Journal of International Law. https://www.ejiltalk.org/of-mazes-and-layers-can-a-un-convention-on-tax-change-the-rules-of-the-game/

Thuilliez, Josselin, Rouyard, Thomas, Mano, Yukichi, Daff, Bocar Mamadou, Diouf, Serigne, Dia, Khadidiatou Fall, Duval, Laetitia and Nakamura, Ryota (2022), Operational and structural factors influencing enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes: an observational study using 12 waves of nationwide panel data from Senegal, Health Policy and Planning, pp. 1-14.

2021

Black, Anthony (2021), 'Industrial policy in South Africa', in: Arkebe Oqubay/ Fiona Tregenna/ Imraan Valodia (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 510-530.

Black, Anthony, Barnes, Justin and Monaco, Lorenza (2021), 'Government policy in multinational-dominated global value chains: Structural transformation within the South African automotive industry' in: Antonio Andreoni/ Pamela Mondliwa/ Simon Roberts/ Fiona Tregenna (eds.), Structural Transformation in South Africa: Sectors, Politics and Global Challenges, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 100-119.

Black, Anthony, Andreoni, Antonio, Barnes, Justin and Sturgeon, Timothy (2021), 'Digitalisation, industrialisation and skills development: Opportunities and challenges for middle-income countries', in: Antonio Andreoni/ Pamela Mondliwa/ Simon Roberts/ Fiona Tregenna (eds.), Structural Transformation in South Africa: Sectors, Politics and Global Challenges, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 261-285.

Black, Anthony, Winkler, Harald (2021), Creating employment and reducing emissions:Options for South Africa, SARChI Industrial Development Working Paper Series WP 2021-06. SARChI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, https://www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sarchi-wp-2021-06-winkler-and-black-september-2021.pdf

 

Selected relevant publications by ADAPTED research directors before 2021

Adaman, Fikret, Burçay Erus and Burçu Yakut-Çakar (2012), An Inquiry on Introducing a Minimum Income Scheme in Turkey: Alternating Between Cost Efficiency and Poverty Reduction, Journal of European Social Policy.

Adaman, Fikret, Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu, Begüm Özkaynak and Hande Paker (2017), The Effectiveness of Environmental Civil Society Organizations: An integrated analysis of organizational characteristics and contextual factors, Voluntas.

Biermann, Frank, Philipp Pattberg and Fariborz Zelli, editors (2010), Global Climate Governance beyond 2012. Architecture, Agency and Adaptation. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Cornelisse, G. N. (2015), State Borders, Human Mobility and Social Equality: from Blueprints to Pathways. In L. Weber (Ed.), Rethinking Border Control for a Globalising World (pp. 80-97). (Rethinking Globalizations). Routledge.

Cornelisse, G.N. (2018), Legal pluralism in the European regulation of border control: disassembling, diffusing and legalizing the power to exclude in: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law (pp. 373-390), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Delaporte, Isaure, Mathilde Maurel (2016), Adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh. Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis, pp.1-14.

Eder Mine (2009), Retreating State? The Political Economy of Welfare Regime change in Turkey, Middle East Law and Governance.

Fischer, A.M. (2016), On the macroeconomics of universalistic social policy and economic and social rights, Global Social Policy 16(1), pp. 97–104.

Hartmann, Christof (2019), Overlapping Regionalism and Region-Building in Africa’ in: Arie Kacowicz / Ruth Fine / Galia Press-Barnathan (eds.), The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World: Bridging the Social Sciences-Humanities Gap, London: Routledge, 93-121

Hout, W. (2019) The Permanent Crisis of Development Aid, in B. Jessop & K. Knio (eds) The Pedagogy of Economic Crises: Crisis Dynamics, Construals, and Lessons, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 229-243.

Kaltenborn, Markus (2017), Overcoming Extreme Poverty by Social Protection Floors – Approaches to Closing the Right to Social Security Gap, Law and Development Review 10(2), pp. 237-273.

Kaltenborn, Markus, Krajewski, Markus, Kuhn, Heike (Eds.) (2020), Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Loewenstein, Wilhelm and Dieter Bender (2017), Labour Market Failure, Capital Accumulation, Growth and Poverty Dynamics in Partially Formalised Economies: Why Developing Countries’ Growth Patterns are Different? Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3022146

Massaro, L. & de Theije, M. (2018), Understanding small-scale gold mining practices: An anthropological study on technological innovation in the Vale do Rio Peixoto (Mato Grosso, Brazil). Journal of Cleaner Production. 204, p. 618-635

Maurel, Mathilde, Michele Tuccio (2016), Climate instability, urbanization and international migration. The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis (Routledge).

Pattberg, Philipp and Oscar Widerberg (2017), The Climate Change Regime. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.46

Rémi Bazillier (2017), Are environmentally responsible firms less vulnerable when investing abroad? The role of reputation, with Sophie Hatte and Julien Vauday, Journal of Comparative Economics 45(3), 520-543, 2017.

Sparrow, R.A, Budiyati, S, Yumna, A, Warda, N, Suryahadi, A, & Bedi, A.S. (2017), Sub-national health care financing reforms in Indonesia, Health Policy and Planning 32(1), pp. 91–101.

Thuillez, Josselin (2016), Disease and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Africa, with Kuecken M, Valfort M-A. Working paper. R&R in Economic Journal.

Thuillez, Josselin (2018), Pauvreté, Egalité, Mortalité: Mortality (In)Equality in France and the US. [NBER] [CEPR], With Currie J. and Schwandt H. R&R in Journal of Population Economics.

ADAPTED conferences
As part of ADAPTED yearly meetings SDG Fora provide the central platform for knowledge exchange and networking among ADAPTED members and beyond. SDG-Fora are open for PhD candidates and research staff of the respective hosting institution and for local non-academic partners. The ADAPTED final conference is held as a public event.

• SDG Forum 1 - Agenda setting took place at Ruhr University Bochum in February 2022
• SDG Forum 2 - Discussion of research designs took place at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands
• SDG Forum 3 - Discussion of preliminary findings took place at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France from 26 February to 1 March 2024
• SDG Forum 4 - Presentation of results took place as part of the ADAPTED final conference from 25 to 28 November 2024 in Gordon's Bay, South Africa

 

Conference participation of ADAPTED members

From 5-6 December, 2024, Johann Langenbach attended the Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. He held a presentation titled "The Just Energy Transition in Rural South Africa: Empirical Insights from Nighttime Light Analysis". The conference theme was "Infrastructure for Economic Growth."

On 29 October 2024, Kate O'Donnell (ESR 3) took part in the event Derisking Informality: Finance, Precarious Workers and Social Policy Futures at the London School of Economics and held a presentation titled "Coordination and Tensions of Social Registry Building in Kenya."

From 14-18 October 2024, Eszter Szedlacsek (ESR 8) attended the conference Earth System Governance (ESG) Forum 2024 and held a presentation titled “Navigating Sub-Saharan African just and low-carbon transitions: integrated governance approaches in Kenya and South Africa.”

In October 2024, Luiza Leite de Queiroz attended the 'Taxation Without Borders Conference' in Gothenburg, Sweden, organised by the Critical Approaches to Taxation and Society (CATS) Network and presented a paper titled 'Comes with the territory: sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction in the realization of transnational tax justice.'

From 29 September - 2 October 2024, Ahmed El Assal (ESR 13) attended the African Studies Association Germany Conference at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He presented on "Dissecting Expectations of Southern Researchers."

From 4-7 September 2024, Guido Maschhaupt (ESR 15) attended the Conference of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE), hosted at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He held a presentation titled "Cash Plus or No Double Dipping? Comparing Social Protection Approaches in Malawi and Zambia since 2020."

From 29-31 August 2024, Guido Maschhaupt (ESR 15) attended the 2024 General Assembly of the Basic Income Earth Network that was hosted at the University of Bath, UK. There he held a presentation titled "Cash Plus or No Double Dipping? Comparing Social Protection Approaches in Malawi and Zambia since 2020."

On 29 and 30 August 2024, Eszter Szedlacsek (ESR 8) attended the Global Goals Conference 2024 in Utrecht and presented two papers titled “Navigating Sub-Saharan African just and low-carbon transitions through integrated Paris Agreement-SDG Governance approaches: the case of Kenya and South Africa” as well as “Mapping NDC-SDG connections in Sub-Saharan African countries.”

From 19-23 August 2024, Kate O'Donnell (ESR 3) participated in the NordWel Summer School in Bremen, Germany, and presented a paper titled "Institutionalising Poverty Targeting? An examination of the institutional and political implications of building a social registry in Kenya:"

From 12-15 August, Eszter Szedlacsek (ESR 8) attended the ECPR 2024 conference and served as Panel chair and presented two papers titled “Multi-level networks in Sub-Saharan Africa: addressing the climate-poverty governance gap and “Co-Governance in Kenya's Climate Governance Nexus: Unraveling Donor-Government Dynamics and Implications for the Climate-Poverty Nexus."

In July 2024, Luiza Leite de Queiroz (ESR 9) joined the Interdisciplinary Corporate Taxation Workshop jointly organized by the Universities of Nijmegen and Leiden in Ravenstein, the Netherlands. There, she presented a paper titled "Comes with the territory: sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction in the realization of transnational tax justice."

On 26-28 June, 2024, Ahmed El Assal, Beatrice Gibertini, Guido Maschhaupt, Irene Among, Kate O'Donnell and Petronilla Wandeto attended the 2024 Conference of the Development Studies Association (DSA) at SOAS, University of London, and held presentations on their individual research projects.

From 5-8 June 2024, Beatrice Gibertini (ESR 2) attended the 2024 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Together with Anja Benshaul-Tolonen and Maty Konte, she held a presentation on "African Mining Economies and the Gender Gap in Political Participation."

From 15-17 April, 2024, Kate O'Donnell attended the 2024 Social Policy in Africa Conference in Tshwane, South Africa. There, she held a presentation titled "The Social Registry Model: Its Evolution and Institutional Implications."

In April 2024, Johann Langenbach (ESR 7) attended the 18th edition of the Doctorissimes of the Paris School of Economics. He held a presentation titled "Plug-in Progress: Examining the Impact of Electricity Access on Employment Outcomes in South Africa."

On 17-19 March, 2024, Beatrice Gibertini (ESR 2) presented a chapter authored together with Anja Benshaul-Tolonen and Maty Konte at the 2024 CSAE Conference at the University of Oxford, UK. Beatrice's presentation "African Mining Economies and the Gender Gap in Political Participation" was part of a panel discussion on "Natural Resources and Environment."

Natalia Zakharchenko (ESR 11) attended the International Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Conference in Ghent, Belgium, in December 2023. At this event, Natalia presented a poster on accountability, discussing her theoretical research on accountability in socio-economic rights with interested conference attendees.

On November 13 and 24, 2023, Beatrice Gibertini (ESR 2) attended the 19th Development Dialogue (DD19) Conference organised by PhD candidates of the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. There, Beatrice presented her research findings from within a movement against extractivism in the context of the mining sector in South Africa.

From 24-26 October 2023, Irene Among (ESR 12) attended the Southern Africa Social Protection Experts Network (SASPEN) Annual International Conference at Mauritius University and delivered a presentation titled "Framework Statutes for Coherent Social Protection Systems: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis of Social Assistance Laws in South Africa, Mauritius & Uganda."

From 24-26 October 2023, Eszter Szedlacsek attended the Earth System Governance Conference 2023 in Radboud, and held a presentation titled “Navigating trade-offs and synergies between just and low-carbon transitions: the JETP in South Africa."

On September 27 and 28, 2023, Ahmed El Assal (ESR 13) presented his preliminary research findings from his extensive fieldwork conducted in Uganda over the past months at a research workshop organised by the Open University, UK. The workshop was jointly organised by the Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD), OU, and the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in collaboration with the DSA/ EADI Multidimensional Poverty and Poverty Dynamics Working Group. 

From 4-8 September 2023, Eszter Szedlacsek served as Virtual Panel Chair and paper presenter at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at Charles University and held a presentation titled “Climate-poverty governance nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa: a window of opportunity for regime-shift?”

On Friday, 21 July 2023, Natalia Zakharchenko (ESR 11) and her supervisor Prof. Dr. Markus Kaltenborn held a presentation at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Under the general theme of the event “Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order,” the ADAPTED participants discussed the potency and challenges in operationalizing the principle of accountability in human rights from a legal perspective. The panel was convened by Zophia Edwards (John Hopkins University) and Jason Jackson (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and proposed to take stock of the recent critical turns and their implications for the study of development.

The members of the ADAPTED Work Package 3 'Optimizing the Impact of Poverty Reduction Policies', Natalia Zakharchenko, Irene Among, Ahmed El Assal, Petronilla Wandeto and Guido Maschhaupt have convened a roundtable discussion at the 2023 EADI General Conference on July 13, in Lisbon, Portugal. The title of this year's EADI's General Conference was 'Towards New Rhythms of Development', the roundtable convened by WP3 was titled 'Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa.

On 24 and 25 November 2022, Natalia Zakharchenko (ESR 11) participated in the 15th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory (DFLT-15), an annual interdisciplinary workshop at Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia. The event engaged both graduate students as well as early career researchers “to think critically, methodologically and theoretically about law and legal theory”. In the framework of the Forum’s theme – Law, Text, and Contrapuntal Reading - Natalia presented her article on contrapuntal reading of accountability in international law.

From 21-23 October, 2022, Eszter Szedlacsek attended the Earth System Governance 2022 Annual Conference online and delivered a presentation in the panel “Competing narratives on sustainability transformations: Implications for design and governance." The presentation was titled "Climate-poverty nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa: the transformative potential of governing SDG interlinkages, synergies- and trade-offs."

On 18 October 2022, Ahmed Elassal (ESR 13), Petronilla Wandeto (ESR 14) and Guido Maschhaupt (ESR 15) delivered presentations at the 18th Development Dialogue. The title of this year's virtual conference was "Doing Development Differently." Ahmed and Petronilla were also part of the conference organizing committee.

On 20 September 2022, Luiza Leite de Queiroz (ESR 9) delivered a presentation at the 2022 Global Tax Symposium hosted by the McGill University Montreal, Canada. Luiza delivered a presentation on "What normativity for inter-nation equity? Human Rights as compass and Sustainable Development Goals as the lingua franca in international tax justice."

On 1 September 2022 Valentine Nandako Masika (ESR 6) delivered a presentation "Is China's infrastructure footprint in Sub-Saharan Africa good for sustainable development?" at the 2022 Postgraduate Conference titled "Crossing the borders of knowledge" organized by the Center for Postgraduate University of Rhodes University.

Petronilla Wandeto (ESR 14) presented a joint research with Ahmed Elassal, and Guido Maschhaupt on "Exploring donor trade-offs in semi-authoritarian regimes: political consequences of cash assistance programs in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Uganda" at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 25 August 2022 as part of the panel "Democratic innovations".

Guido Maschhaupt (ESR 15) gave a presentation on "Reform coalitions in neopatrimonial states: case studies into policy conflict in democratic low-income countries" at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 25 August 2022 as part of the panel "Institutions and policy conflict".

Eszter Szedlacsek (ESR 8) delivered a presentation "Climate-poverty nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa: the transformative potential of governing SDG interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs" at at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 24 August 2022 as part of the panel "Transformative governance for the Sustainable Development Goals".

In the same panel, a paper "Transformative Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Towards a Common Conceptual Understanding" co-authored by Philipp Pattberg, supverisor of the ADAPTED ESR 8 project, and other members of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has been presented.

Ahmed Elassal (ESR 13) gave a presentation on "Shrinking civic spaces: the skewing role of civil society organisations and the state in promoting youth political participation in Egypt" at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 22 August 2022 as part of the panel "Public policy and the global south".

Johann Langenbach (ESR 7) took part in the NAVIGATE-CHIPS Stakeholder workshop on climate policy and just transition on 16^th June in Paris organized by organised by the EU H2020 project NAVIGATE and the JPI AXIS project CHIPS.

Irene Among (ESR 12) delivered a presentation "Building Coherent Social Protection Systems: A Comparative Legal Analysis of Mechanisms in Sub Saharan Africa" at the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) conference convened by a consortium of six universities in Stockholm from 15^th to 17^th June 2022.