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Why support GDN?

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United Nations countries have adopted the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), more than 190 countries have reached a global climate agreement
at the COP21 in Paris, and a global partnership for sustainable
development data has been initiated.
Image: USAID/Flikr
2016: Towards greater
development cooperation
Informing policymaking in developing countries through high
quality, local policy research is ever more relevant.

3.
The Global Development Network (GDN) is a public
international organization that supports high quality,
policy-oriented, social science research in developing
and transition countries, to promote better lives.

4.
Why support GDN?
We support research for sustainable development
A threefold impact
Supporting individual researchers in developing and transition
countries
Generating new knowledge on sustainable development
Informing policy and practice
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GDN’s global platform connects social science researchers in developing countries
with policymakers and development stakeholders. We achieve policy influence, as
evidenced in Armenia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Macedonia, Cameroon,
Czech Republic, Ecuador, Indonesia and The Philippines. Image: Barriopixel/GDN
Why support GDN?
We inform policymaking in developing countries
Jaime Saavedra, Minister of
Education, Peru, speaks at a GDN
conference in March 2016.

6.
Why support GDN?
We build global knowledge based on local research insights, to
better inform sustainable development policy. We engage
policymakers, academics and practitioners. We award winning ideas
for research.
Why support GDN?
We connect researchers in developing countries to build
global knowledge
Image: Poh Si/GDN

7.
Why support GDN?
We mobilize and build local research capacity
Since 1999, GDN has supported more than 4,000 research
grantees from 132 developing and transition countries. In 2014-
15 GDN gave 106 new prizes and grants to 189 researchers, 75%
of whom were from low and lower middle income countries. We
reach 1/3 of all low income countries.

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With an award from GDN, three researchers in Macedonia developed a web-based tool, EdPlaKo,
to test the fairness of wage levels at the company level, based on the personal and socio-
economic characteristics of workers. The tool works to level wages and reduce retribution bias ,
particularly gender bias.
IMPACT STORY
Bridging wage gaps in Macedonia
Image: Marjan Lazarevski/Flickr
“GDN opened new strands of thinking.”
Marjan Petreski, Grantee of the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research
on Development Research.

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IMPACT STORY
Natural Resource Management in Morocco
Tourism is the bedrock of Morocco’s economy, but its beaches, in Tetouan,
are fast disappearing. GDN supported a study that quantified the economic
value of beach ecosystems. Results informed the work of the Ministry of
Urbanism and Planning to systematically monitor Moroccan shores.
Image: Tanel Teemusk/Flickr
“This unique study mixes oceanography
with economics to better convince
policymakers. ”
Pierre Bertrand, who manages the program at GDN.

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PRINCIPLES
GDN‘s governing principles are:
Independence, Openness, Effectiveness,
Democracy, and Plurality.
EXPERIENCE
GDN offers over 15 years of experience in
global research collaboration and has
provided support to thousands of grantees.
UNIQUE GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD
GDN’s has a unique role to play in the
development research landscape, characterized
by our tagline“Local Knowledge. Global
Research. Informed Policies. Better Lives.”
IO STATUS
GDN’s International Organization status gives it
the ability to work on a wide range of global
development challenges with an independent
perspective.
VALUE FOR MONEY
GDN is a trusted partner, having established a
strong network of supporters from across the
globe.
TEAM
The GDN team is a small but agile team of
highly competent experts across multiple
disciplines.
Why support GDN?

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Key Services
We work to
• Enrich the academic knowledge base on global sustainable development
challenges
• Strengthen local research capacity building in institutions in the poorest
countries in the world
• Enhance the use and utility of development research to help key findings
travel to senior policy makers

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Between 2010-2015, GDN has been a
trusted partner to..
 The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
 African Development Bank (AfDB)
 Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
 Asian Development Bank (ADB)
 Austrian National Bank
 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 CAF – Development Bank of Latin America
 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia (formerly AusAID)
 Department for International Development (DFID) UK
 Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), Canada
 Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria
 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

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 International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
 Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
 Ministere des Finances, Government of Luxembourg
 Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Government of France
 Netherlands Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS)
 New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID)
 Open Society Institute (OSI)
 OCP Foundation, Morocco
 Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR)
 Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
 United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
 The World Bank

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If you are interested in supporting
GDN, or would like more information
about our donors, please contact
Alina Zyszkowski
Director, GDN Washington DC
1850 M Street NW
Suite 710
Washington, DC
20036
202.861.4364
azyszkowski@gdn.int
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